Nicolas Maduro declared himself "the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty on Monday to the federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from power in Venezuela.
As uncertainty simmers in Venezuela, interim President Delcy Rodríguez has taken the place of her ally Maduro, captured by the United States in a nighttime military operation, and offered “to collaborate” with the Trump administration in what could be a seismic shift in relations between the adversary governments.
Trump described the raid to seize leftist Nicolas Maduro as an update of the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 declaration by fifth US president James Monroe that Latin America was closed to other powers, then meaning Europe. FRANCE 24's Monte Francis explains.
Swiss police said Monday they've identified all the people who were injured in the fire that tore through a New Year's celebration in a crowded bar. They put the total at 116, more than two-thirds still in hospitals. FRANCE 24's Eliza Herbert reports.
At UN, Venezuela's envoy says US removal of Maduro is 'illegitimate'.
As Venezuela’s deposed president faces his first Brooklyn court date on drug trafficking charges, back in Caracas Nicolas Maduro’s regime remains intact. We’ll ask how a US president who promised no more forever wars will deal with an entrenched system whose local militias have their fingers in drug trafficking, gold and yes… oil.
A defiant Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and other charges in a New York court on Monday, two days after being snatched by US forces in a stunning raid on his home in Caracas. Maduro, 63, told a federal judge in Manhattan "I'm innocent. I'm not guilty." FRANCE 24's Jessica Le Masurier reports from New York.
Cold weather bringing snow and ice caused road closures and flight and train cancellations in the UK, France and the Netherlands on Monday, with weather service Meteo France issuing an alert for snow and ice for much of northwest France, including Paris.
John Bolton, Former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump, speaks to France24.
The forceful overthrow of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela has made clear that US President Donald Trump's administration is willing to resort to unilateral military action in pursuit of its perceived interests overseas, regardless of international law and global norms. Here is a look at which other countries might soon find themselves in the crosshairs.
