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On 7 Jan 2026 Paris disclosed that the three EU governments will meet the same day to craft a joint response in case President Trump follows through on White House-floated military options to acquire Greenland.
Around 02:00 a.m. on 3 Jan 2026, at least seven blasts hit two key military sites in Caracas, prompting President Nicolás Maduro to invoke a state of emergency and accuse Washington of carrying out air-and-missile attacks.
Before dawn on 3 Jan 2026 U.S. special-operations forces extracted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from Caracas to New York, instantly toppling the figurehead and forcing Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez to assume power while Washington hints it will govern Venezuela’s oil-rich state.
In a 3 Jan 2026 pre-dawn raid dubbed “Operation Absolute Resolve,” U.S. air-strikes hit Caracas and troops extracted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife to New York, where Trump said Washington would administer Venezuela and tap its oil.
In the predawn hours of 3 Jan 2026, more than 150 U.S. aircraft supported special-forces troops who seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas and delivered him the same day to the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York—the first time a sitting head of state has been brought to U.S. soil for criminal trial.
On 4 Jan 2026, North Korea unleashed multiple ballistic and hypersonic missiles that flew 900-1,000 km just hours before South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung departed for a state visit to Beijing, abruptly escalating regional tensions.
On 3 Jan 2026, a 30-minute U.S. operation codenamed “Absolute Resolve” air-struck Caracas, extracted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady-MP Cilia Flores, and Trump immediately announced Washington would administer Venezuela until a future hand-over.
On 3 Jan 2026, during a Kyiv meeting with 18 visiting European security advisers, President Zelenskyy insisted that British and French forces be deployed to Ukraine immediately after any cease-fire, making their boots-on-the-ground presence a pre-condition for finalising a 20-point peace deal and an $800 billion reconstruction pact to be endorsed at a Paris summit days later.
On 3 Jan 2026 U.S. aircraft and special forces struck multiple Venezuelan sites, seized President Nicolás Maduro, and flew him to New York to face narcotics-terrorism charges, thrusting Washington into de-facto control of Caracas and igniting global backlash.
On 1 Jan 2026 Admiral Igor Kostyukov passed a recovered drone navigation controller to a U.S. military attaché, asserting its logs prove Ukraine’s 91-drone swarm sought to hit President Putin’s lakeside estate—an assertion immediately contradicted by U.S. intelligence.
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