Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez says the US-Venezuela oil cooperation agreement covers 17 strategic fields with proven reserves of 65 billion barrels. It envisages more than $100 billion in investment and over $209 billion in state tax revenue, while contributing to economic growth, hemispheric energy security and greater market balance. Donald Trump said the deal gives the US majority control of those reserves.

Venezuelaoil dealenergy security

Donald Trump says the US will take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil, adding that a joint venture between the two countries will lower petrol prices for Americans.

Donald TrumpVenezuelaoilpetrol prices

President Donald Trump says the US has agreed with Venezuela to control a majority of more than 65 billion barrels of its proven oil reserves. He says the transaction will expand America’s oil supply and lower gas prices. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it a “huge win” for both countries, while details remain undisclosed.

United StatesVenezuelaoil dealDonald Trump

President Donald Trump said the United States has reached an oil agreement with Venezuela. He said the move would more than double U.S. oil reserves, increase supply and lower gas prices.

United StatesVenezuelaoil agreementenergy supply

President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States had reached an agreement with Venezuela to take control of the country’s 65 billion barrels of oil reserves.

Donald TrumpVenezuelaoil deal

Sustained gunfire and explosions were heard in several parts of Niamey early Saturday, according to a Reuters witness.

NigerNiameygunfireexplosions

Sustained gunfire and explosions were reported across several parts of Niamey early Saturday, residents said. One resident heard shots in the direction of Diori Hamani International Airport. The incident’s cause and nature remain unclear, and Nigerien government and military authorities have issued no official statement.

NiameyNigergunfireexplosions

British political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by ICE at New Orleans’s Louis Armstrong International Airport. The Department of Homeland Security says he allegedly overstayed his authorization and received a final removal order after missing an immigration hearing; he will remain in custody pending removal.

Milo YiannopoulosICEimmigration enforcementUnited States

Immigration officials arrested British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in New Orleans. The Department of Homeland Security said he was detained Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

Milo Yiannopoulosimmigration enforcementUnited States

Federal immigration authorities arrested right-wing provocateur and online influencer Milo Yiannopoulos at an airport in Louisiana after accusing him of overstaying his visa.

Milo YiannopoulosICEimmigration enforcement

US authorities detained British right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at New Orleans International Airport on Thursday for overstaying his visit, the Department of Homeland Security said. Officials plan to deport him. He once supported Donald Trump and his immigration crackdown but later fell out with the Trump movement.

Milo YiannopoulosUS immigration enforcementdeportation

Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right commentator who describes himself as an internet troll, was arrested at an airport in New Orleans for remaining in the United States after his visa expired, DHS said.

Milo Yiannopoulosimmigration enforcementvisa overstay

Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial British figure who built a reputation as a right-wing provocateur more than a decade ago, has been detained by ICE, according to records.

Milo YiannopoulosICEdetention

Iceland’s residents will vote Saturday on whether to restart negotiations over joining the European Union, which have been frozen for a long time.

IcelandEuropean Unionreferendum

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said an oil agreement with the United States could help Venezuela attract about $100 billion in private investment and support the reconstruction of its economy. He said the deal would also secure stable, low-cost oil reserves for the US and help lower gas prices. Trump had earlier announced majority US control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven reserves.

Venezuelaoil dealprivate investmentUnited States

Donald Trump lost another attempt to move his challenge to a New York criminal fraud conviction to federal court. The judge said payments to an adult film star were not an official act protected by presidential immunity.

Donald TrumpNew York hush-money casefederal court

A federal judge has again rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to move his New York state criminal hush money case to federal court. The transfer could have made it easier for him to overturn his conviction.

Donald TrumpNew York casefederal courtlegal challenge

Donald Trump has lost his attempt to transfer the New York hush money case to federal court.

Donald TrumpNew Yorkhush money casefederal court

A federal judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to transfer his already-decided New York state hush money case to federal court, dealing a setback to the U.S. president’s effort to erase his criminal conviction.

Donald TrumpNew Yorkhush money casefederal court

CCTV footage showed a deadly flash flood tearing through Gyirong Port on the Nepal-Tibet border as hundreds fled. China has mounted a major rescue operation and issued updates, but the video and accounts from survivors and families in Tibet have been largely absent from its censored internet, leaving much about the victims and missing unknown.

Tibet floodsflash floodinginformation censorshiprescue operation

Ninety-seven-year-old Guna Maya Bohara is recovering in hospital after being pulled from flood debris at her care home in Nepal. Her great-nephew said she looked like a “warrior” returning victorious from battle. The rescue took four hours. Hundreds have been confirmed dead after flash floods scientists believe may have followed a glacier collapse near the Himalayan border with Tibet.

Nepal floodsflood rescueglacier collapse

Scientists are examining what caused the flooding disaster in Nepal and Tibet and whether climate change played a role. As more severe weather has struck countries around the world in recent months, experts are considering what lessons can be drawn from Wednesday’s disaster and others this year.

Nepal floodsTibetclimate changeextreme weather

Catastrophic floods struck the region along the Nepal-China border on Wednesday. Humanitarian organizations are mobilizing to assist survivors.

Nepal floodsTibethumanitarian aid

The number of people missing in Nepal’s floods has risen to nearly 3,000. Rescuers are working through mud as the danger of further flooding remains, while emergency teams have recovered 682 bodies so far. UNICEF says 17,000 children need assistance.

Nepalfloodsmissing peoplechild aid

Officials say the number of people missing after the deadly flooding along the Nepal-China border has doubled, as emergency rescue efforts continue.

Nepalflood disastermissing peoplerescue

The number of Australians reported missing after catastrophic floods on the Nepal-Tibet border has risen to 41, though 25-year-old Cara Severino has contacted her family and been confirmed safe. Australia is sending crisis and rapid-response teams to Kathmandu and has pledged A$5m in aid to support rescue and recovery efforts.

Nepal floodsmissing Australiansrescue operationhumanitarian aid

Eight-year-old Zoyal Ghale escaped Nepal’s devastating floods by running into a forest and climbing trees as the water rose. Rescuers found him in flood-hit Rasuwa with a broken leg, and he was reunited with his mother after she spent days searching for him and his brother.

Nepalfloodsrescuefamily reunion

Spain has asked Frontex to help screen migrants still in Ceuta after more than 70,000 people crossed illegally from Morocco in late July. Around 5,000 remain, while residents have protested angrily; some demonstrations have turned violent. Madrid also requested 10 additional Frontex officers.

CeutamigrationSpainFrontex

Spain has asked Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, to help process migrants in the North African enclave of Ceuta, nearly a month after tens of thousands crossed the border from Morocco.

SpainCeutamigrationEU

Tensions have escalated in Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta, where locals blocked Red Cross aid deliveries and some set fire to migrant camps on a beach. The incidents followed the arrest of 12 migrants accused of throwing stones at a military vehicle. The government and opposition parties have blamed each other for worsening the crisis and social division.

Ceutamigrant crisisunrest

Spain’s left-wing government urged calm in the North African enclave of Ceuta on Friday after protests over security escalated into clashes between local residents and police. The unrest came a month after a mass migrant influx from Morocco triggered a Europe-wide alert.

Ceutaanti-migrant protestspolice clashes

Dozens of witnesses testified over three weeks in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial about events before and after the killing of her three young children in coastal Massachusetts in 2023. Clancy did not testify, but prosecutors and defense attorneys extensively read from her diaries, offering different interpretations of what they showed.

Lindsay Clancymurder trialdiary evidence

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial are scheduled to resume deliberations Friday over whether she was responsible for her actions when she killed her three children in 2023.

Lindsay Clancytrialjury deliberations

Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergey Koretsky confirmed that a major fire accompanied by detonations occurred at an ammunition depot near Kyiv and demanded that those responsible be held accountable. Reports of the incident emerged Friday near the Zhytomyr highway in Kyiv Region’s Bucha District.

UkraineKyivammunition depot fire

Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of “The Odyssey” has sold one million copies and became a cultural flashpoint. She is now retranslating the entire work, continuing the story beyond that edition.

Emily WilsonThe Odysseyliterary translation

The decision lets states subject prediction markets to gambling-style oversight, dealing a major setback to the rapidly expanding industry.

prediction marketsgambling regulationcourt ruling

A latest U.S. appeals court ruling confirms that states have authority over prediction markets, dealing Kalshi a legal setback. The decision sets up a split among federal courts over event contracts and raises the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will have to resolve the dispute.

Kalshiprediction marketsU.S. appeals courtsports betting

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that sports-related event contracts are not swaps, contradicting an April decision by the Third Circuit and potentially setting up a Supreme Court battle.

prediction marketsU.S. appeals courtsports contracts

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Kalshi is not entitled to an injunction preventing Nevada from overseeing its prediction-markets platform, where users can bet on sporting-event outcomes.

KalshiNevadasports prediction markets

Brazil received a record 73,311 Chinese visitors in the first half of this year, up 55% from the same period in 2025. The increase is bolstering the Brazilian government’s case for extending a reciprocal visa waiver set to expire at the end of December.

Chinese tourismBrazilvisa waiver