Caracas 19 de diciembre de 2025.- ...

El deseo de Navidad de Nisrín Antone es volver a celebrar Nochebuena con su marido y sus tres hijas, en torno a una mesa y en una casa de verdad. Desde octubre de 2023, esta cristiana palestina de 45 años vive confinada con su familia en un pequeño despacho de la parroquia de la Sagrada Famili...

And Japan makes it five for the C5 in 2025. The heads of state of the five Central Asian countries are traveling to Japan for a December 19-20 summit hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takachi under a format dubbed C5+1. It marks the fifth such “C5+1” summit for Central Asian leaders this year, following similar gatherings each involving a different major global power — China, the European Union, Russia, and the United States. Each C5+1 meeting has followed roughly the same script with bilateral meetings, a plenary session,…

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19 de diciembre de 2025.- «Se han batido todos los récords de solicitud de ingreso a la Universidad Nacional de la Seguridad (UNES) este año (…) hay más de 32 mil solicitudes de muchachos y muchachas que quieren ingresar a los cuerpos policiales», así lo destacó el vicepresidente sectorial de Políti...

SHANGHÁI, CHINA. – En el marco de la Feria International Travel Mart (CITM), la ministra del Poder Popular para el Turismo, Leticia Gómez, sostuvo un encuentro estratégico con Li Liyang, Gerente General de Marketing de Air China, con el objetivo de consolidar a Venezuela como un destino ...

The economics of shipping additional volumes of heavy crude from Iraq to compensate for a potential loss of Venezuela’s supply are just not there at present, Shafaq News reported on Friday, quoting Iraqi economist Nabil Al-Marsoumi. Concerns in the heavy crude market are that the U.S. blockade of tankers carrying Venezuelan oil and heightened tensions in the Caribbean would reduce supply of the extra heavy crude.   In theory, the sour and heavy grades from the top producers in the Middle East could be substitutes for Venezuela’s…

The economics of shipping additional volumes of heavy crude from Iraq to compensate for a potential loss of Venezuela’s supply are just not there at present, Shafaq News reported on Friday, quoting Iraqi economist Nabil Al-Marsoumi. Concerns in the heavy crude market are that the U.S. blockade of tankers carrying Venezuelan oil and heightened tensions in the Caribbean would reduce supply of the extra heavy crude.   In theory, the sour and heavy grades from the top producers in the Middle East could be substitutes for Venezuela’s…

The economics of shipping additional volumes of heavy crude from Iraq to compensate for a potential loss of Venezuela’s supply are just not there at present, Shafaq News reported on Friday, quoting Iraqi economist Nabil Al-Marsoumi. Concerns in the heavy crude market are that the U.S. blockade of tankers carrying Venezuelan oil and heightened tensions in the Caribbean would reduce supply of the extra heavy crude.   In theory, the sour and heavy grades from the top producers in the Middle East could be substitutes for Venezuela’s…

Brent is clinging to $60 per barrel, but markets have become even less sensitive to geopolitical risk. Friday, December 19, 2025 Things are not looking good for oil, with Trump’s belligerent rhetoric vis-à-vis Venezuela only pushing ICE Brent futures to $60 per barrel after a slide below that psychological threshold earlier in the week. Sanctions against Russia or threats thereof have by now desensitized the market towards Russian supply risks, once again demonstrated by the lack of price movements after Ukraine targeted another shadow…

Las sanciones tienen el objetivo de elevar los costos de exportación de petróleo iraní y reducir los ingresos que Teherán obtiene por cada barril vendido. El Gobierno de Estados Unidos incluyó este jueves a 2...

Un hombre alemán fue declarado culpable de drogar, violar y filmar a su esposa inconsciente durante años,

Una organización nacionalista puertorriqueño sumó su repudio a la política de agresión estadounidense contra Venezuela, subrayando su apoyo al pueblo venezolanos. El Movimiento Ñin Negrón de Puerto Rico denunció el jueves "las burdas acciones del imperio y los crímenes de lesa ...

The international gold and foreign exchange reserves held by the world’s biggest oil-producing nations in the EU could be at risk, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, after EU leaders discussed using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.  “This is not just a blow to its image; it is an undermining of trust in the euro zone,” Putin said in year-end remarks to the Russian press, as carried by Reuters.  “The fact is that many countries keep their gold and foreign exchange reserves in the euro zone, not…

The international gold and foreign exchange reserves held by the world’s biggest oil-producing nations in the EU could be at risk, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, after EU leaders discussed using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.  “This is not just a blow to its image; it is an undermining of trust in the euro zone,” Putin said in year-end remarks to the Russian press, as carried by Reuters.  “The fact is that many countries keep their gold and foreign exchange reserves in the euro zone, not…

The international gold and foreign exchange reserves held by the world’s biggest oil-producing nations in the EU could be at risk, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, after EU leaders discussed using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.  “This is not just a blow to its image; it is an undermining of trust in the euro zone,” Putin said in year-end remarks to the Russian press, as carried by Reuters.  “The fact is that many countries keep their gold and foreign exchange reserves in the euro zone, not…

El canciller de la República, Yván Gil, expresó en nombre del presidente Nicolás Maduro y del pueblo venezolano su agradecimiento a la Federación de Rusia por el mensaje de solidaridad frente a las recientes amenazas de Estados Unidos. Gil destacó que la postura rusa reafirma el der...

The European Union will provide a 90 billion-euro ($106 billion) interest-free loan to Kyiv to help fund the war-torn country after failing to agree on a proposal to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine's economic and military needs in the coming years. European Council President Antonio Costa said in a post on X on December 19 that the funds will be for 2026 and 2027. "We committed, we delivered," he said. EU officials began meeting on December 18 to agree on a solution for funding. The talks focused on a proposal to use tens of billions…

    La plataforma Hegoak, integrada por más de una decena de organizaciones políticas, sindicales y sociales vascas, ha hecho público un comunicado en el que "denuncia la implementación de una `estrategia neo-colonial´" basada en injere...

El ministro de Finanzas israelí aprobó construir 3600 viviendas en el asentamiento de "Meshmar Yehuda", en el este de Al-Quds ocupada. Según la agencia de noticias palestina Safa, Bezalel Smotrich, ministro de finanzas del régimen israelí, anunció que este nuevo asentamien...