The U.S. military seized a sixth Venezuelan oil tanker in a Caribbean operation Thursday amid the Trump administration's campaign against illicit oil trade.

U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a resolution on Wednesday that would have barred President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela without Congress' authorization, after the Republican president put pressure on party members who had supported it.

From sunrise, throngs of military personnel, government officials and civilians lined the route between Havana's airport and the Armed Forces Ministry to applaud home the remains of 32 Cuban troops killed in Venezuela as they passed by in a funeral cortege.

When Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado walked into the White House on Thursday, she came bearing the gift US President Donald Trump has long coveted: a Nobel Peace Prize.

President Donald Trump met Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Thursday, whose political party is widely believed to have beaten former President Nicolás Maduro in the 2024 election.

The White House shared on social media an image of Mr. Trump holding the frame containing the Nobel medal. The inscription reads that his “Principled and Decisive Action to Secure a Free Venezuela” has been recognized. The Nobel Committee has said the Peace Prize is not transferable.

Venezuela has freed Czech, Hungarian, Dutch and German citizens imprisoned in the country, their governments said on Friday, part of a flow of prisoner releases following the U.S. capture of Nicolas Maduro.