Venezuela military bombardment against ELN in Apure border area leaves several dead, NGO says
A military bombardment against the National Liberation Army, known as the ELN, has left several people dead near Venezuela's border with Colombia, according to a human rights group. The incident was reported in rural Apure state in the south-west of Venezuela, an area long affected by armed-group activity. Video seen by reporters showed bodies on the ground, fallen trees and the ruins of what appeared to be a camp.The NGO Fundaredes said one of its coordinators saw the first nine dead after the attack. Its director, Javier Tarazona, said this was the first Venezuelan bombardment against the ELN. The group... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 01 Nov 2026 02:02 LONDON
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Trump touts Venezuela oil deal and floats 51st-state idea at Texas rally
Donald Trump used a campaign rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, to promote a new US oil arrangement with Venezuela and to suggest the South American country could one day become the 51st state. He told supporters that a tanker offshore carried what he described as one million barrels of oil from Venezuela. He also called the deal the "greatest oil victory in history".Trump said the agreement was struck with Venezuela's interim government, which he said is backed by his administration. He claimed the arrangement would cover "billions" of barrels of oil and said the fuel was being provided to the... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 27 Oct 2026 23:30 LONDON
The Sovereign Shakedown: Trump’s High-Stakes Table, the Russian Mirror, and the Main Street
The veneer of institutional diplomacy has been entirely stripped away, revealing a raw and unvarnished reality. The global order is no longer governed by treaties, norms, or multilateral consensus. It is dictated by the unrestrained exercise of coercive leverage. Under the current doctrine emanating from Washington, the complex machinery of international relations has been reduced to a binary instrument of absolute dominance. We have entered the era of the unilateral ultimatum, where the traditional boundaries of sovereignty are subordinated to the whims of an administration operating less like a representative republic and more like a global syndicate. This is not... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews-Opinion | 23 Oct 2026 18:59 LONDON
The Great Uncoupling: Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Gambit
The UAE’s decision to cut ties with OPEC is far more than a mere adjustment of energy policy, for it functions as a political telegram written in barrels and sent directly to the heart of the global order. For nearly six decades, Abu Dhabi operated within the rigid architecture of producer discipline, where it accepted the rituals of quotas, the formality of communiqués, and the heavy burden of collective restraint. It played the long game of oil diplomacy with a patient hand, balancing its own massive national ambitions against the gravity of cartel discipline and the delicate logic of Gulf... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews-Opinion | 30 Apr 2026 09:50 LONDON
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There Is Good in Every Bad
Power, Greed, Oil, and the Theater of Modern Geopolitics The Business Model of Power Donald Trump does not govern like a traditional politician. He governs like a negotiator who believes every geopolitical crisis is leverage, every war threat is a bargaining chip, and every market panic is an opportunity. When markets tremble, someone profits. The question is, who? Global markets react instantly to political tension. Gold rises when conflict looms. Oil spikes when instability threatens production. Stock markets collapse on fear, then rebound on reassurance. Volatility is not chaos, it is opportunity. Historically, gold has surged during major geopolitical crises,... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews-Opinion | 18 Feb 2026 17:11 LONDON
