
Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, participated via videoconference on Wednesday at the FII Priority investment forum in Miami, where she assured American, Saudi, and Latin American investors that her government is advancing reforms to guarantee legal certainty for investments in the country.

Iran rejected on Wednesday the 15-point proposal put forward by the Trump administration to end the war, calling its terms excessive and detached from reality, while international mediators scramble to arrange a direct meeting between representatives of both countries that could be, they warn, the last chance to prevent a broader escalation.

Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodríguez announced on Tuesday that a delegation of Venezuelan diplomats will travel to Washington this week to advance the normalization of bilateral relations with the United States, severed since 2019.

The Pentagon is preparing to deploy soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, even as President Donald Trump insists negotiations with Iran are advancing and that Tehran has offered a gift related to gas, oil and the Strait of Hormuz.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), flagship of the United States Navy for more than five decades, will arrive in Uruguayan waters in the coming weeks as part of the “Southern Seas 2026” deployment, the US Fourth Fleet announced.

Oil prices could surpass $150 per barrel and approach $200 if the Strait of Hormuz blockade persists, according to energy industry analysts — a level that would make a global recession virtually inevitable.

Brazilian financial markets posted one of their best sessions of the year on Monday after President Donald Trump announced a five-day postponement of strikes against Iran's energy infrastructure, citing “productive conversations” with Tehran.

“We were dealing with an emergency earlier and I messed up.” The air traffic controller's voice at New York's LaGuardia Airport sounds shaken in tower frequency recordings released through LiveATC.net, barely twenty minutes after an Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck on the runway, killing the pilot and copilot.

Argentine President Javier Milei's willingness to send troops to the Middle East if requested by the United States has fuelled growing concern in Argentina, a country that has historically maintained an equidistant stance on international conflicts and where fears of possible reprisals are emerging.

US President Donald Trump announced on Monday a five-day moratorium on the threatened attacks against Iran's energy infrastructure, hours before the 48-hour ultimatum he issued on Saturday demanding Tehran reopen the Strait of Hormuz was set to expire.