By Rodrigo Campos and Karin Strohecker NEW YORK/LONDON, Jan 4 (Reuters) – The toppling of President Nicolas Maduro has thrust Venezuela’s debt crisis – one of the world’s largest unresolved sovereign defaults – into the limelight. Following years of economic crisis and U.S. sanctions that severed the country from international capital markets, Venezuela defaulted in…
Jan 5 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s acting president on Sunday offered to collaborate with the United States on an agenda focused on “shared development”, striking a conciliatory tone for the first time since U.S. forces captured the oil-rich nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro. In a statement posted on social media, Acting President Delcy Rodriguez said her government…
MOSCOW, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Russia on Monday advised its citizens against travelling to Venezuela. The warning came after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States had carried out a strike on Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Both the Russian Embassy in Caracas and the Economy Ministry issued similar…
By Alexander Villegas and Oliver Griffin SANTIAGO/SAO PAULO, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Latin American leaders were divided between condemnation and jubilation in the wake of a surprise attack on Venezuela early on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump said resulted in the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. While much of the region has long…
ATHENS, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Greece’s manufacturing sector saw an improvement in December as new orders rose at a faster pace, although supply chain disruptions slowed output growth, S&P Global reported on Thursday. The S&P Global Greece Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) climbed to 52.9 in December from 52.7 in November. PMI readings above 50.0…
By Marc Frank HAVANA, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday condemned the United States for attacking Venezuela and capturing its president at a rally of thousands of Havana residents in front of the U.S. Embassy in the Cuban capital. “Cuba condemns and denounces these actions as an act of state terrorism,”…
By Idrees Ali, Erin Banco, Steve Holland and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Reuters) – At 4:21 on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump sent a message on his Truth Social platform: the United States had carried out a daring mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The action came as a surprise,…
By Cynthia Kim SEOUL, Jan 2 (Reuters) – South Korea’s won weakened on the first trading day of the year on Friday even after authorities renewed their determination to stabilize foreign exchange markets following a package of measures to bolster the local currency. The won has been hovering at a 16-year low against the dollar…
By Saeed Azhar, Purvi Agarwal and Nikhil Sharma NEW YORK, Jan 2 (Reuters) – The Dow and S&P 500 indexes ended higher on Friday, starting 2026 by snapping a four-day losing streak, helped by gains in chip makers Nvidia, Intel <INTC.O> and Boeing In 2025, the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all notched…
LONDON, Jan 1 (Reuters) – Sovereign wealth and public pension fund investors poured a whopping $132 billion – roughly half of their investments last year – into the United States in 2025, while big emerging markets drew in almost a third less than in 2024, an annual report showed on Thursday. These huge investors together…
