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REPORT: Caracas asks London to release gold frozen since 2019 at the Bank of England
On July 8, 2026, Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, announced on state television that she had written directly to King Charles III asking him…

ANALYSIS: 50,000 missing, the number haunting post-earthquake Venezuela
Nearly three weeks after the twin earthquakes of June 24, 2026, one number continues to dominate coverage of the Venezuelan catastrophe: roughly 50,000 people…

ANALYSIS: La Guaira leveled, epicenter of a catastrophe that swallowed a country
The port city of La Guaira, Venezuela's historic maritime gateway since colonial times, found itself on June 24, 2026 at the epicenter of two…

DECODING: Delcy Rodríguez, an interim president already rejected by 63%
Delcy Rodríguez has held the interim presidency of Venezuela since the ousting of Nicolás Maduro in an American operation roughly six months before the…

DECODING: Venezuela's earthquake death toll crosses the 4,000 threshold
On the evening of June 24, 2026, two earthquakes measuring magnitude 7.2 and then 7.5 struck Venezuela's northern coast, just thirty-nine seconds apart, according…

REPORT: A Chinese Missile in the Pacific Confirms the Western Doctrine
On July 6, 2026, at precisely noon, a Chinese nuclear submarine fired a ballistic missile from waters in the South China Sea toward the…

INVESTIGATION: Chinese Deterrence Now Puts Itself on Display in the Pacific
On July 6, 2026, a nuclear submarine of the Chinese navy fired a ballistic missile into international waters of the Pacific, according to Reuters…

EDITORIAL: Beijing and Moscow Tighten Their Naval Grip on the Pacific
From July 6 to 13, 2026, the Chinese and Russian navies conducted, in the Yellow Sea, the joint exercise Marine Interaction 2026, also called…

COLUMN: The Chinese Missile Reshaping the Pacific's Undersea Nuclear Balance
On July 6, 2026, a little after noon, a nuclear-powered Chinese submarine fired a ballistic missile toward international waters in the Pacific.