The US and Venezuela have agreed that Washington will take control of a fifth of Venezuela's oil reserves, the largest in the world, President Trump said after talks with acting president Delcy Rodríguez.
President Donald Trump has suggested the United States could punish Chinese banks for helping move Iranian oil, using financial penalties called sanctions.
US and NATO officials say the supply of Patriot interceptor missiles stored in Europe has dropped to a level they call 'beyond critical.' Patriot missiles are the main weapons NATO uses to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles.
Oman is trying to arrange a temporary shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea passage between Iran and the United States that carries about a fifth of the world's oil and gas.
President Trump has sent Congress a classified agreement to help Saudi Arabia build a civilian nuclear program.
China has gone from rejecting a US ultimatum over its trade with Iran to warning it may retaliate, the Financial Times reports.
Canada has published a detailed list of new tariffs on $20 billion of American goods, including steel, dairy, fish, furniture and cosmetics, matching tariffs the United States already placed on Canadian goods.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on Tuesday, according to two US media outlets, in what would be his first known visit to Russia since becoming America's top spy chief.
The European Union lent Ukraine 90 billion euros, and special rules currently let Kyiv use some of that money to buy weapons and parts from outside the EU, including from China and the United States.
China said it will keep trading with Iran and will not bow to what it called economic warfare, after the United States sanctioned Chinese companies over their Iran business last week and told other countries to halt trade with Tehran too.
The United States has tightened sanctions on Iran, and global stock markets mostly rose in response while oil prices fell and European defence company shares jumped.
The Trump administration is preparing to cancel the visas of up to 200,000 people who entered the US on a tourist or business visa between 2016 and 2026 and then applied for asylum, according to NPR, DW and other outlets.