Prices of precious metals went up after the US captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This was because investors were looking for “safe-haven” assets as geopolitical worries grew. Gold went up about 1.8% to about $4,408 an ounce on Monday morning in Asia, and silver went up almost 3.5%. In 2025, both metals hit record highs,…
The government of Ghana has strongly condemned what it calls a one-sided and illegal military invasion of Venezuela by the United States. Reports say that this invasion led to the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on January 4, 2026, that Ghana…
Source: BBC World leaders have had very different reactions to the US’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife after a major strike. This shows how divided the world is. Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the UK, said that Britain would “shed no tears” over the fall of what it sees as…
Source: Graphiconline Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has confirmed that Ghana has started diplomatic talks with Ukraine to get a Ghanaian citizen who is currently being held as a prisoner of war released. The Ukrainian government officially told Ghana about the person’s arrest and gave identifying information that has been confirmed by…
BBC, Reuters Donald Trump, the President of the United States, said that the U.S. had carried out a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela. He also said that Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured and flown out of the country during the operation. Trump’s statement, which was shared on social…
An actor from “Boo! A Madea Halloween” sued Tyler Perry for sexual assault. This is the second lawsuit in a few months that accuses the filmmaker and studio mogul of using his power in Hollywood to make sexual advances. Mario Rodriguez filed the lawsuit on Thursday in California. He says that Perry made unwanted sexual…
Source: BBC In a long interview about his health, US President Donald Trump said that he takes more aspirin than doctors say he should, puts makeup on his hands to hide bruises, and doesn’t exercise regularly because he thinks it’s “boring.” Trump also told The Wall Street Journal that he had a CT scan in…
The MBZUAI Undergraduate Research Internship Program (UGRIP) 2026 is a fully funded summer internship in Abu Dhabi for international undergraduate students. Interns will work on cutting-edge research projects in artificial intelligence and machine learning for four weeks (May 31 – June 26, 2026) alongside students and faculty from around the world at Mohamed Bin Zayed…
In a New Year’s speech that mostly talked about fighting against Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a peace deal to end the war is “90% ready.” Zelensky said that the last 10% of the deal to end nearly four years of fighting would “determine the fate of peace, the fate of…
António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), has asked world leaders to “get serious” and choose people and the planet over pain and war as the world enters 2026. In his New Year message from Washington, D.C. on Monday, December 29, 2025, Mr. Guterres said that the world is at a crossroads, surrounded…
