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Nobel Peace Prize winner gives medal to Trump
Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado told reporters outside the US Capitol that she presented Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal during their meeting in the White House.
There had been speculation over whether she would give the medal to the US president during their talks, and she told our US correspondent James Matthews it was done “in recognition for his unique commitment [to] our freedom”.
It’s unclear whether Trump has accepted the medal.
As a reminder, Machado won 2025’s Nobel Peace Prize – an honour Trump himself clearly wanted – for her efforts campaigning against Nicolas Maduro’s repressive regime in Venezuela.
Ahead of that meeting, the US seized another oil tanker with links to Venezuela.
US officials told Reuters that the seizure took place in the Caribbean.
The operation was confirmed by the US military’s Southern Command, which said forces apprehended Motor/Tanker Veronica “without incident” before dawn.
It said the Veronica was “operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean”.
Watch the moment forces seized the tanker below…
Trump ‘clear’ he wants US to ‘acquire’ Greenland
In a White House press briefing, Karoline Leavitt said talks between the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland with US vice president JD Vance and secretary of state Marco Rubio were “productive”.
“It was a good meeting, the two sides agreed to establish a working group of individuals who will continue to have technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland,” she said.
“Those talks will take place, I’m told, every two to three weeks.
“This is a conversation the administration intends to keep having with the Danes and with the respective delegation from Greenland.
“But the president has made his priority quite clear, he wants the United States to acquire Greenland, he thinks it’s best for national security to do that.”
Leavitt added that European countries sending troops to Greenland won’t affect Trump’s decision on acquiring the territory.
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