The US will temporarily run Venezuela after American forces captured the country’s president and first lady in an extraordinary military strike, US President Donald Trump says. Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized at their home, flown out of the country and placed on a US-bound warship to face a criminal trial in New York, Mr Trump said. …

The US will temporarily “run” Venezuela after American forces “captured” the country’s now-deposed president Nicolás Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores in an extraordinary military strike. The move has garnered celebration and condemnation across the globe. Here’s how world leaders have reacted: Australia Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the government was “monitoring developments”. “We urge all parties to support …

The United States’ military operation to kidnap Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from his home in Caracas was stunningly successful in achieving its ambition, and generated new levels of hyperbole from US President Donald Trump. “This was one of the most stunning, effective, and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history”, he told a press conference at …

The Albanese government will spend $12 billion on building a submarine and naval shipbuilding facility under AUKUS, as doubts linger over the agreement’s future. For months, the Trump administration has been pressuring Australia to lift defence spending, while the Pentagon reviews AUKUS against Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda. The government’s new multi-billion-dollar funding commitment, to be announced on Sunday, will support the …

A former top Pentagon official has urged Australia to give the United States more “concrete” commitments on how it would deploy Virginia-class nuclear powered submarines in the event of war, as the Defence Minister Richard Marles arrives in Washington DC for high level meetings with the Trump administration. Abraham Denmark — who served as senior AUKUS advisor to former US …

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has landed in Canada ahead of this week’s G7 summit, during which he will meet with US President Donald Trump at a fraught time in world affairs. Albanese’s first meeting today was with G7 host, Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney, shortly after touching down. “Canada is the eighth largest investor in Australia at the moment and there is the potential, I …

In just a week, Donald Trump has gone from sharing the almost blasphemous image of himself as a pope to posting the uncharacteristically subdued message congratulating Chicago-born cardinal Robert Prevost on his election to the head of the Catholic Church. Vice-President JD Vance has also been on his best behaviour, posting a message of congratulations, saying: “I’m sure millions of …

Every iPhone comes with a label which tells you it was designed in California. While the sleek rectangle that runs many of our lives is indeed designed in the United States, it is likely to have come to life thousands of miles away in China: the country hit hardest by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, now rising to 245% on …

Donald Trump says he’s had a “very good” phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy — their first conversation since the US president publicly scolded his Ukrainian counterpart and ordered him out of the White House three weeks ago. The pair spoke a day after Mr Trump’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who rejected a US-proposed 30-day ceasefire plan, but agreed …

For months, senior officials have been discussing exporting Australia’s world-leading radar technology JORN to the United States, but after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Canada saw an opportunity and leapt. Overnight, new Canadian leader Mark Carney spoke to his counterpart, Anthony Albanese, then flew to his country’s Arctic territory of Nunavut to announce a $6.5 billion high-tech Australian …