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USA seizes another oil tanker
Updated 01/10/2026 – 04:00Reading time: 22 minutes
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US President Donald Trump has called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates. From January 20, 2026, interest rates will be capped at ten percent, Trump wrote on Thursday (local time) on the social media platform Truth Social, which he co-founded. However, he did not give any details about how his plan would be implemented or how he would get companies to comply with the requirement. “We will no longer allow the American public to be ‘ripped off’ by credit card companies,”
Trump added.
US President Donald Trump met with the heads of some of the world’s largest oil companies on Friday and urged them to invest $100 billion in Venezuela. The aim is to rebuild the country’s energy industry after the arrest of head of state Nicolas Maduro and to massively expand oil production.
“US corporations will have the opportunity to rebuild Venezuela’s rotting energy infrastructure,” Trump said at the start of the meeting at the White House. He also praised an agreement with the Venezuelan interim leadership to deliver 50 million barrels of crude oil to the USA.
After the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, protests against operations by the US immigration agency ICE continue. Solidarity rallies took place in several US states. According to US media, in the city of Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota in the north of the USA, dozens of students demonstrated against the presence of immigration authorities on Friday (local time).
According to media reports, hundreds of protests and rallies across the country have been announced for the weekend under the motto “ICE Out For Good”. An alliance of civil rights and migrant organizations called for this. According to the organizers, the actions are intended to be peaceful and are directed against increasing violence by immigration authorities as well as operations in local communities and schools.
At a meeting with oil and gas industry executives, US President Donald Trump said he wanted to meet with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado next week. “She will come visit and pay her respects to our country,” Trump said. “And it’s coming sometime next week, I think Tuesday or Wednesday.” He added that relations with Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez are currently “very good.”
