The Venezuelan opposition figure has indicated that she wants to give her award to the US president A Nobel Peace Prize cannot be withdrawn or handed over to another person, the organization behind the award has said, ruling out the possibility of it being transferred to US President Donald Trump. The clarification came after the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado, told Fox News earlier this week that “the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, certainly want to give it to him [Trump] and share it with him.” The US president has been actively campaigning to get the prize since taking office a year ago, but the organizers opted to present it to Machado during a ceremony in Oslo, Norway in December. A statement published on the Nobel Prize office website on Friday stressed that the award “can neither be revoked, shared, nor transferred to others. Once the announcement has been made, the decision stands for al...
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Beijing and Washington continue to exchange allegations over IP theft, tech transfer and export controls, disrupting global trade The idea of the US decoupling from China is flawed, the CEO of American tech giant Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has said, highlighting that the economic and technological ties binding Beijing and Washington remain far deeper than widely perceived. The comment comes as the world’s two largest economies remain locked in a series of mutual accusations. Washington has repeatedly accused China of unfair practices such as intellectual property theft and forced technology transfer, while Beijing condemns US export controls as politicizing trade and warns that they disrupt global supply chains and harm all involved. “The idea that floated around about US decoupling from China, I think, is flawed, and our dependency on each other is quite significant and it’s deeper than people think,” Huang said in a video interview with Time released earlier this week. The executive ...
West Jerusalem is prepared to resume fighting over Hamas’ unwillingness to lay down arms, the outlet’s sources have said Israel has drawn up plans for a new ground operation in parts of Gaza controlled by the Palestinian armed group Hamas, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing informed sources. Gaza is currently split fifty-fifty between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas, in line with US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace roadmap, which envisions the Palestinian fighters disarming and Israel pulling out of the 141 square mile (365 square kilometer) enclave. It is the unwillingness of Hamas to fulfill its pledge to lay down arms that could prompt West Jerusalem to launch a new attack in Gaza, the outlet said in an article on Saturday. According to Arab officials who spoke with the WSJ, Hamas is only ready to give up its heavy weapons, but not its small arms. Israel estimates that the group currently has around 60,000 rifles. Read more Trump considering new att...
Finnish officials have sounded the alarm about the “Russian threat,” with Moscow denying it has plans to attack Western countries Finland on Saturday officially withdrew from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines amid tensions with Russia over the Ukraine conflict. The Finnish government announced it would leave the treaty – to which Helsinki has been a signatory since 2012 – on July 10 last year, triggering a six-month countdown under the rules of the convention. In June, Finnish President Alexander Stubb argued that the country faces “an aggressive, imperialist state” as a neighbor, while Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen said that “protection against the Russian threat takes priority.” Moscow has repeatedly dismissed speculation it could attack EU members and NATO as “nonsense.” Read more Zelensky withdraws Ukraine from landmark anti-mine treaty When Helsinki – along with Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia – announced the decision, UN Secretary-General Antonio ...
The French opposition demands that the president’s plan be endorsed by the UN, according to the newspaper President Emmanuel Macron has briefed France’s main political forces on plans to send troops to Ukraine after a potential ceasefire, but has run into opposition from across the political spectrum, Le Monde reported on Friday. Several parties reportedly insisted that any deployment must be endorsed by the United Nations – something which is unlikely to happen due to Russia’s opposition to the plan and its UN Security Council veto. According to Le Monde, Macron on Thursday held a three-hour gathering of around 30 participants, including leaders from Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally and left-wing La France Insoumise. Read more Western troops in Ukraine would amount to ‘foreign intervention’ – Moscow Macron’s team reportedly shared “confidential details” on the French contribution to troop deployment, with La France Insoumise leader Mathilde Panot telling Le Monde th...
After raiding Venezuela and kidnapping its president Nicolas Maduro, Washington has repeated threats to annex Greenland The US is increasingly distancing itself from some of its allies and retreating from international rules, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. The comment comes a week after Washington conducted a military raid on Venezuela and threatened once again to annex Denmark’s autonomous territory of Greenland. Earlier this month, American commandos carried out a series of airstrikes on the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and several other regions of the country, while abducting President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. US President Donald Trump on Friday told journalists that a military option was on the table regarding Greenland, which he claimed would be taken over by China or Russia if Washington did not act. “We are evolving in a world of great powers, with a real temptation to divide up the world among them,” Macron said in his annual speech to F...