By Anadolu Agency A US-based human rights group on Thursday said the death toll in Iran’s protests had reached 2,677. The ongoing protests, triggered by discontent over economic conditions, also led to the detention of 19,097 people, said the Human Rights Activists News Agency. In clashes that broke out during the protests, 2,677 people lost

U.S. President Donald Trump attends a press conference following the NATO summit in The Hague, the Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. Photographer Zhao Dingzhe By Xinhua News Agency The European Union (EU) could help provide security for Greenland if Denmark requests it, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said on Monday, warning that

By Anadolu Agency US President Donald Trump has ordered special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland, the UK-based Daily Mail reported Sunday. Policy “hawks around the US President,” following Washington’s success in carrying in a Jan. 3 military operation in Venezuela that captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife,

People shelter under umbrellas as Storm Goretti brings heavy snowfall and rain to Walsall, Britain, January 8, 2026. Photographer Isabel Infantes By Reuters Strong winds battered France and Britain on Friday as Storm Goretti hit northern Europe, leaving hundreds of thousands of households without power. In France, some 380,000 households lost power, mostly in the

By Anadolu Agency A US woman shot Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in a fatal enforcement operation was identified as Renee Nicole Good. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that Good, 37, attempted to hit officers with her vehicle, prompting an agent to fire in what officials described as an act

This photo taken with a mobile phone shows people protesting outside a courthouse, which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is brought to, in New York, the United States, on Jan. 5, 2026. Photographer Zhang Fengguo By Xinhua News Agency Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appeared in Manhattan federal court on Monday after his forcible seizure by U.S.

By Anadolu Agency The EU on Tuesday called on Israel to allow international NGOs to deliver life-saving aid to civilians in Palestine, and warned that aid cannot reach the needed scale in Gaza without them. Senior EU officials have urged that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is continuing to deteriorate, as winter conditions set in

A screen shot taken from a video released by the White House shows U.S. President Donald Trump holding a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, the United States, Jan. 3, 2026. U.S. raid “a heavily fortified military fortress in the heart of Caracas” to capture Maduro –Trump By Xinhua News Agency

Delcy Rodríguez, Vice President of Venezuela By Anadolu Agency Venezuela’s vice president on Saturday denounced the US “abduction” of President Nicolas Maduro following airstrikes, arguing that the military intervention was a thinly veiled attempt at regime change designed to allow the US to seize Venezuela’s significant oil, mineral, and energy reserves. “The masks have fallen,”

By Anadolu Agency Swiss police on Thursday said around 40 people were killed and about 115 others injured, many of them seriously, after a fire broke out at a bar in the ski resort town of Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve, marking “one of the worst tragedies” the country has ever seen. “At the hour