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Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition figure and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, attends a press conference on December 11, 2025 in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by Rune Hellestad/Getty Images)

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Trump to meet Venezuela opposition leader Machado on Thursday

US President Donald Trump will host Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado on Thursday at the White House

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12 January, 2026

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10 January, 2026

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Israeli minister says agents 'operating in Iran' amid protests

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09 January, 2026

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08 January, 2026

Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition figure and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, attends a press conference on December 11, 2025 in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by Rune Hellestad/Getty Images)

Trump to meet Venezuela opposition leader Machado on Thursday

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12 January 2026

Hamas Shura Council Chairman Muhammad Darwish (R) and Hamas Political Bureau Member Khalil al-Hayya (C) meet Iran's supreme leader in Tehran, on February 8, 2025. (Photo by Iranian Leader Press Office / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Faced with post-war uncertainty, Hamas seeks new leadership

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A Greenland flag (L) flies near the flag of Denmark on March 11, 2025, in Ilulissat, Greenland. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

NATO, Greenland vow to boost Arctic security after Trump threats

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Seven Pakistani police officers killed in targeted bomb attack

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Fires are lit as protesters rally on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Anonymous/Getty Images)

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Syrian army sends reinforcements to Meskene-Deir Hafir, east of Aleppo, Syria, on January 12, 2026. (Photo by Syrian Ministry of Defense / Handout /Anadolu via Getty Images)

Syria rights groups urge probe into video of apparent abuses in Aleppo

Smoke billows after a drone strike on the port of Port Sudan

Sudan paramilitary strike on southeastern city kills 27

Israel instructed 'not to comment' on ongoing Iran protests

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General view taken at the start of the first hearing at the International Court of Justice in which Myanmar is accused of committing genocide against the country's Muslim minority, the Rohingya, in the Hague on January 12, 2026

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Abu Dhabi is alleged to be trying to pressure the UK government to ban the Muslim Brotherhood

UAE 'exploiting UK Islamophobia' to push Muslim Brotherhood ban

Reform Party UK press conference, London. Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK, 12 January 2026.

Former UK Tory minister Zahawi defects to Farage's Reform

An aircraft alledgedly carrying US businessman Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Nuuk, Greenland on January 7, 2025.

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President of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) welcomes Ursula von der Leyen (L), President of the European Commission, and Antonio Costa (2nd L), President of the European Council, at the People's Palace in Damascus on January 09, 2026.

EU grants Syria $722 million for recovery, humanitarian aid

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A Greenpeace activist holds a banner showing a wind turbine and that reads: "Future vs. Trump" as the same image is projected on the facade of the U.S. Embassy to protest against the withdrawal of the United States by newly-inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump from the Paris Agreement on January 21, 2025 in Berlin, Germany.

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Mohamed Salah celebrates after the 3rd goal for Egypt during its match with Benin in the African Cup of Nations 2025 on January 5, 2026 in Agadir, Morocco (Photo by Mohamed Tageldin / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

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US actor Mark Ruffalo US wears a pin reading "be Good", in tribute to Renee Good, who was fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis, as she attends the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 11, 2026

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