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Cuba’s minister of foreign affairs has strongly denounced the Trump administration’s hostile rhetoric toward his country, warning that Havana remains ready to protect its sovereignty in the face of escalating US aggression. In a message published Tuesday on the social media platform X, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla delivered a firm response …

Russia has reportedly dispatched a submarine and several naval vessels to escort an oil tanker being pursued by the US Coast Guard in the North Atlantic on Wednesday.  According to reports, the tanker is en route to the Russian port of Murmansk. US military aircraft were tracked over the North Atlantic …

Alwaght– Southern Yemen has been on the brink of major upheaval in recent weeks, as the intricate dynamics of power in the region continue to shift. At the outset of the latest developments, the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) forces appeared to be gaining the upper hand. They advanced through …

The US Justice Department has quietly scaled back its indictment of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, retreating from a central Trump-era claim that he led a drug cartel. The original accusation, included in a 2020 grand jury indictment, portrayed the Cartel de los Soles as an organized criminal group allegedly led by Maduro …

News – Middle East: Israel has carried out a series of air attacks across southern and eastern Lebanon, continuing to violate a ceasefire that was meant to halt the Israeli aggression on the Arab country’s sovereignty. Israeli forces launched separate attacks on the towns of al-Manara in the Bekaa region …

News – Yemen: During a large public and official gathering at the Al-Sha’ab Mosque in Sanaa on Saturday, Yemen’s Grand Mufti, Shams al-Din Sharaf al-Din, declared that Yemen’s current confrontational stance against the United States and the Israeli enemies is a direct result of the sacrifices and ideological legacy of …

Middle East:  “General Soleimani, architect of the ‘Axis of Resistance,’ shaped a framework that goes beyond current policies, reflecting the ideals of the Islamic Revolution and Iran’s Constitution—what should be called ‘resistance-based diplomacy,’” Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said recently. Major General Qassem Soleimani, heralded as one of the Islamic …

Iranian security forces have arrested an individual linked to the Israeli regime’s spy service who was operating under the guise of participating in riots in Tehran. The suspect, described as an affiliate of the Zionist regime’s espionage service (Mossad), was identified and detained while acting covertly among rioters in Tehran. …

By Robert Maillard What has just happened in Venezuela is not a simple event. It is a message to the entire world — all those countries that reject the Western hegemonic project. In the early hours of Saturday, the US kidnapped Nicolás Maduro, the democratically-elected president of Venezuela, on alleged …

The Venezuelan parliament has inaugurated Delcy Rodríguez as interim president, two days after US forces kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro. Rodriguez took the oath of office during a ceremony in the National Assembly on Monday, telling lawmakers she was doing so “in the name of all Venezuelans.” She said she was …