Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez "will pay a very high price" if he refuses to cooperate with the United States, Donald Trump said. “If she doesn’t do the right thing, she will have to pay a very high price, probably even more than Maduro,” the US president said in a telephone interview with The Atlantic.

We tell you why Trump needs control over Venezuela and whether Maduro is really a drug lord (it seems not) ABC News/DEA Nicolas Maduro upon arrival in New York. January 3, 2026 On the night of January 3, the United States detained Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores in Caracas. They were taken to New York.

Updated . The number of downed drones flying towards Moscow has increased to 40, Sergei Sobyanin said. The air defense forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense destroyed 25 Ukrainian drones flying towards Moscow on the afternoon of January 4, city mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported on his telegram channel. The official did not provide any details about the possible consequences of the attack, noting only that emergency services specialists are working at the sites where drone debris fell.

One thousand four hundred and eleventh day. The new head of Zelensky's office in the United States is considered more convenient for peace negotiations, and in Ukraine - a potential successor to the president Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters in our daily materials because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war.

A large-scale power outage occurred in southwest Berlin as a result of a fire in a cable-stayed bridge at the Lichterfelde power station, writes Tagesspiegel. Since the morning of January 3, 45 thousand households and two thousand enterprises have been left without electricity and heating. By Sunday morning, about ten thousand homes had been reconnected to the network.

See how water is robbing the homes of millions of people around the world Daniel Pullen A house destroyed by a tropical storm on North Carolina's Outer Banks, a 200-mile stretch of sandy barrier islands between the mainland and the Atlantic Ocean. These islands shift as waves and wind move the sand. As sea levels rise and storms intensify, these dynamics are intensifying.

A Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman received a shrapnel wound as a result of a car explosion in the Obolonsky district of Kyiv, the city prosecutor’s office reports. The incident occurred on the afternoon of January 4 in the courtyard of one of the houses on Heroiv Dnipra Street. The explosion occurred when the owner of the car opened the trunk. There was a woman next to him, she was not injured. The name of the soldier has not been released.

We tell you in our YouTube shows - “What happened” and “We don’t know.” Here are the episodes that are definitely worth watching (or re-watching) In 2025, we launched two new shows on our YouTube channel . The first is “We Don’t Know” with Sultan Suleymanov, the second is a video version of “What Happened” with Vladislav Gorin (yes, almost six years after the launch, you can not only listen to our news podcast).

The key administrative role in American governance of Venezuela after the overthrow of Nicolas Maduro will be assumed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has always been a vocal critic of the Venezuelan leader and his predecessor Hugo Chavez. Bloomberg writes about this with reference to an unnamed American official.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky commented on the US military operation in Venezuela, as a result of which President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores were captured and taken out of the country. “Well what can I say. If dictators can be [treated] like this, then the United States of America knows what to do next,” he said wryly at a press briefing. Zelensky did not explain who he meant. Ukrainian media conclude that he was hinting at Vladimir Putin.

The British and French air forces conducted a joint operation to bomb an underground weapons storage facility in Syria used by the Islamic State terrorist group. According to a statement from the British Ministry of Defense, the target, located in the mountains north of Palmyra, was successfully hit. The operation involved Typhoon FGR4 fighter jets supported by a Voyager tanker aircraft. The military stressed that there were no civilians in the bombing area.

At least 40 people, including military personnel and civilians, were killed as a result of the US military operation in Venezuela on the night of January 3. This was reported by The New York Times, citing a senior Venezuelan official who spoke on condition of anonymity. In its article, the newspaper provided some details of the American attack on Caracas and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

New wow museums, Gehry's death, too slow progress. And wood as the main building material Meduza’s cultural department continues to sum up the results of 2025. All year we have been closely following the main architectural news: both in Russia and around the world. At the request of the publication, architectural journalist Asya Zolnikova named the most striking events in her field. The text is divided into chapters: main losses, changes, discoveries and ideas.

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez should act as head of state in the absence of Nicolas Maduro, the country's Supreme Court has ruled. The court said in a statement that Rodriguez "assumes the presidency to guarantee continuity of government and the comprehensive defense of the country." Earlier on Saturday, Delcy Rodriguez herself addressed the nation on Venezuelan state television, announcing that Nicolas Maduro remains the country's only legitimate president.

Fragment of the book “Where Are Dictatorships Drifting?” Konstantin Gaase on how Russian authorities carefully prepared for the invasion of Crimea in 2014 Alexey Nikolky / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Profimedia Viktor Yanukovych and Vladimir Putin. October 2012 “Where are dictatorships drifting?” — a new book by sociologist Konstantin Gaase.