US President Donald Trump has spoken after the United States’ unprecedented strikes within Venezuela and “capture” of its leader, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Follow 1News’ live updates for the latest. <\/p>\n
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The US has captured Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> and his wife and launched strikes against the South American country, US President Donald Trump says.Trump said the US would “run” Venezuela until a “safe transition of power can take place”.Maduro faces drugs and weapons charges in the US, Attorney General Pam Bondi says, adding he will “face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts”.More than 150 aircraft were involved in the operation<\/a>, codenamed ‘Absolute Resolve’.Trump has shared a photo he said was of Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima.Foreign Minister Winston Peters said New Zealand was “concerned by and actively monitoring” the developments.United States captures Venezuela’s president, will ‘run’ country – Watch on TVNZ+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has spoken after the United States’ unprecedented strikes within Venezuela and “capture” of its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28708,42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-215545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-central-south-america","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}