The State Department declared in a media note that the Trump administration is "rapidly implementing President Trump’s vision to reopen and develop Venezuela’s oil industry for the shared benefit of the American and Venezuelan people."
Russia is once again pressing its BRICS partners to move forward with a financial system designed to weaken the dominance of the U.S. dollar in global trade.
K-pop executions in North Korea have drawn renewed international attention after human rights researchers reported that teenagers were put to death for consuming South Korean entertainment.
A China spying investigation in France has placed two Chinese nationals and two additional suspects under formal judicial scrutiny for allegedly intercepting sensitive military communications.