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From power struggles to global crises, explore how major events between 15 and 21 December were captured on The Independent’s front pages

These widely condemned strikes are just the latest sign of Trump’s imperialist revival – and the collapsing before our eyes of the rules-based world order, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez again threatened the Maduro regime in Venezuela, saying that it is about to get "annihilated" as troops and warships approach the South American country's coast

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez issued a warning to the U.S., claiming that any "military intervention" would be met with fierce resistance.

Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar slammed top Venezuelan official Diosdado Cabello after he claimed she has ties to Colombian drug-trafficking operations

A U.S. official claimed Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro should be "sh---ing bricks" due to the presence of warships off its coast

Previous administrations have followed a century-old law prohibiting military involvement in law enforcement

Donald Trump returned to the US presidency on January 20 with a flurry of executive orders. This included the designation of criminal gangs and drug cartels operating south of the Mexico border as “foreign terrorist organisations” – a first for a US president. The state department will now decide which…

President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a country familiar with U.S. military intervention