Trump on return trip to Washington predicts demise of Cuba, warns Colombia, threatens Greenland
The comments came less than 48 hours after the American military conducted a brazen raid inside Caracas to arrest Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
President Donald Trump, right, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) speak to the media aboard Air Force One en route to Washington on Jan. 4, 2026. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
President Donald Trump on Sunday predicted Cuba’s government could soon collapse and threatened Colombia’s president, a stark warning that underscored his administration’s increasingly aggressive posture toward leftist governments across Latin America.
EU calls for respect of Venezuela’s sovereignty and backs peaceful transition – Kaja Kallas
Zelenskyy clarifies whether partners are restricting Ukraine's use of their weapons for strikes inside Russia
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — 3 January, 22:10
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that partner countries are currently imposing no restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons that they have supplied for strikes on Russian territory. However, they are not currently providing weapons that could be used for such strikes.
Source: Zelenskyy at a briefing following a meeting with security advisers from partner countries
Details: Asked whether Ukraine's partners have placed any caveats on their weapons being used for long-range strikes against Russia, Zelenskyy said: "In my view, we have moved into a phase where we use what we have, and what may not be used is simply not being supplied to us."
Trump says US will get back all money spent on aid to Ukraine
US President Donald Trump has said the US will be able to get back all or "even more" of the funds spent on assisting Ukraine in the war.
Source: Trump speaking to journalists, as reported by European Pravda
Details: The US president said the war in Ukraine is not an economic issue for the US because Washington receives money every time it sends something to Kyiv.
Quote: "(Former President Joe) Biden gave US$350 billion, gave it away. Now, I've got a lot of it back because we did a rare earth deal, going into rare earth... And we're going to get a lot of that money back. Maybe all of the money, maybe even more than all the money, but we're getting paid now. Whenever we send anything, they pay."
