In her first speech as Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez lambasted the US and pledged fealty to Nicolás Maduro. “She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” Trump said. The 56-year-old former labour lawyer struck a defiant tone in her televised speech on Saturday night. The opposition leader mobilised Edmundo González’s winning presidential campaign last year – Maduro ignored the result – and won the Nobel peace prize. Rodríguez said Venezuela “will never again be anyone’s colony – neither of old empires, nor of new empires, nor of empires in decline”.

Though Trump’s electoral victories cannot be attributed to any one thing, his “America first” narrative certainly struck a chord. Venezuela has many problems, including drug gangs and authoritarian rule, but they hardly justify what Trump has done. Even so, the Trump White House reckons that the costs attributable to “illicit opioids, primarily fentanyl” (including death, treatment, crime and lost labour productivity) totalled $2.7tn in 2023. But there are no grounds for claiming that either the US government or any US petroleum company literally owned Venezuela’s oil or land and was robbed. The same can be said for his arrogating the right to open up Venezuela’s oil sector to investments from US corporations.

Après la chute de Maduro au Venezuela. Le Danemark appelle au «respect total» de l’intégrité du GroenlandL’ambassadeur du Danemark aux Etats-Unis a appelé dimanche au «respect total» de l’intégrité territoriale du Groenland, après le tweet de la femme du directeur de cabinet adjoint à la Maison-Blanche ayant partagé une photo du Groenland sous le drapeau américain.

The South American country is not Ukraine, nor, for that matter, is it Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. Plan A for post-Maduro governance, Trump suggested, was to leave Maduro’s vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, in power, because she would help the United States do what it wanted. Within two hours, Rodríguez insisted that Maduro remained Venezuela’s rightful leader and denounced the United States as an illegal, imperialist invader seeking to plunder the country. Trump’s definition of these threats is almost infinitely porous, extending to what he has repeatedly called “the enemy from within”. More likely, Donald Trump’s luck with hit-and-run military strikes is about to run out.

Photograph: Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/ShutterstockFull StoryView image in fullscreen Kehlani Councillor and Derek Councillor pose for a portrait near Bootenal Springs in Greenough, Western Australia. Composite: Tamati Smith/The GuardianThe Descendants episode 1: decoding a massacreColonial pastoralist Major Logue is a figure of note in the city of Geraldton, Western Australia. In-depthView image in fullscreen Delcy Rodríguez, pictured in 2022, has held posts including foreign minister and became vice-president of Venezuela in 2018. SportView image in fullscreen England’s Joe Root bats on day one of the fifth Ashes test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. What’s happening todayNSW | Day two of the final Test of this Ashes series is being held at the SCG.

Son mégot avait provoqué un incendie. Il avait causé l’évacuation de trois immeubles à Châtel-Saint-DenisCe septuagénaire de condition modeste a été condamné à une peine avec sursis et une amende de 300 francs.

Grâce à cette cinquième victoire consécutive en championnat, en ayant concédé seulement deux buts, les Nerazzurri totalisent 39 points, soit un de plus que leur grand rival, l'AC Milan (2e, 38 pts), passé provisoirement en tête à la faveur de sa victoire à Cagliari (1-0) vendredi.

En Valais, deux établissements scolaires sont directement touchés par le drame sur le Haut-Plateau. Un collégien et trois étudiantes de la HEP sont décédés. Lundi, le retour à l’école sera très particulier pour des milliers de Valaisannes et Valaisans.

The world “may not have time” to prepare for the safety risks posed by cutting-edge AI systems, according to a leading figure at the UK government’s scientific research agency. David Dalrymple, a programme director and AI safety expert at the Aria agency, told the Guardian people should be concerned about the growing capability of the technology. Describing the consequences of technological progress getting ahead of safety as a “destabilisation of security and economy”, Dalrymple said more technical work was needed on understanding and controlling the behaviours of advanced AI systems. AISI also found that the most advanced systems can autonomously complete tasks that would take a human expert over an hour. The institute also tested advanced models for self-replication, a key safety concern because it involves a system spreading copies of itself to other devices and becoming harder to control.

L'attaquant du Real Madrid marque cette CAN de son empreinte. Il a inscrit un but lors de chacun des quatre matches joués. Contre la Tanzanie, il a été servi par son capitaine Hakimi et trompé le gardien Masalanga dans un angle fermé au premier poteau. Auteur de plusieurs arrêts, le dernier rempart tanzanien a semblé coupable sur le but marocain.

Remontées mécaniques fribourgeoises. Des fêtes sous perfusion artificielleLes canons à neige ont permis à plusieurs stations de tirer leur épingle du jeu, durant ces vacances sans or blanc. Charmey et Moléson ont adopté leur propre stratégie. Tout comme les stations veveysannes.

The superseding federal indictment unsealed against Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday immediately after his capture closely resembles 2020 charges against him but has several important new twists: the new indictment appears to embrace controversial claims made by the Trump administration about a Venezuelan street gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA). Maduro was captured by US forces early on Saturday and ferreted out of the country after a series of explosions in the Venezuelan capital. Though the indictment doesn’t allege Maduro ever met Guerrero Flores, it builds the case in court for what critics say are Donald Trump’s exaggerated and unsubstantiated allegations about TdA. The deportation of purported TdA members, with no court oversight, to El Salvador’s Cecot prison has been one of the most contested parts of Trump’s deportation efforts. Intelligence from inside the US ran counter to all of Trump’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

German leftwing militants protesting over the climate crisis and AI have claimed responsibility for an arson attack that cut power to tens of thousands of households in Berlin. The area affected by the power cut includes many elderly care homes and hospitals as well as high-rise buildings with residents who are reliant on elevators that are now out of order. In March 2024, Vulkangruppe claimed an arson attack against a pylon at the Tesla gigafactory outside Berlin that cut off electricity to the plant and temporarily halted production. In its 2024 annual security report, Germany’s domestic intelligence watchdog cited repeated attacks on the regional power grid by Vulkangruppe, which it classes as a leftwing extremist organisation. Experts said attacks on energy infrastructure required little specialist knowledge to have a dramatic impact, with maps featuring key components of the power grid widely available online and few contingency plans ready to be enacted in case of sabotage.

King Charles has paid tribute to Anne Frank’s stepsister, Eva Schloss, who has died at the age of 96. She as was co-founder and honorary president of the Anne Frank Trust, of which the queen is patron. In a statement, the king said: “My wife and I are greatly saddened to hear of the death of Eva Schloss. She later lived at Merwedeplein Square in Amsterdam where she met fellow teenager Anne Frank. “We at the Anne Frank Trust mourn her loss deeply and extend our heartfelt condolences to her family and friends during this difficult time.”

Investigators have identified the last 16 people who died in the New Year’s Eve bar fire at the Swiss mountain resort of Crans-Montana, police said on Sunday. The youngest person identified so far is a 14-year-old Swiss girl. Ten of the other bodies identified on Sunday were teenagers aged 16 to 18, police said. Police earlier said two Swiss women aged 24 and 22 and two Swiss men aged 21 and 18 had been identified. Authorities said the severity of the victims’ burns had required the use of DNA samples and dental records to help identify the bodies.