Greenlanders are intensifying their push for independence from Denmark and will soon hold a general election that will take the temperature of that relationship. President-elect’s Trump’s interest in Greenland gives the territory the ability to play the U.S. and Denmark off of each other.

The administrator of the Panama Canal said in an interview with The Associated Press Friday that no privileges are given to any nation, and Chinese companies are not meddling in its operations. Trump has suggested the U.S. should take back control of the canal.

Venezuela’s legislative palace, where President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in to a third term, was heavily guarded. Crowds of people, many sporting pro-Maduro T-shirts, gathered nearby, a day after hundreds of anti-Maduro protesters took to the streets of the capital.

Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado’s aides said she was detained Thursday, followed moments later by official denials of her arrest, in a confusing episode that capped a day of protests seeking to block President Nicolás Maduro from clinging to power.

Guyana said Thursday that it will seek help from the United Nations’ top court to deter plans by neighboring Venezuela to elect a governor to rule its western Essequibo region, an area rich in resources long claimed by Venezuela as its own.

As many as 10 Americans are behind bars in Venezuela as President Nicolas Maduro prepares to be sworn in for a third term. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has tapped several architects of the “maximum pressure” campaign against Maduro he pursued during his first term, but it’s not clear whether he’ll pursue the same approach this time.

The race to be Canada’s next prime minister is still at the starting line and Donald Trump has already cast a shadow over it.

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he said has a “beautiful ring to it.”

The number of killings increased by more than 20% compared with all of 2023, according to the U.N. Human Rights Office. In addition, more than 2,200 people were reported injured and nearly 1,500 kidnapped, it said.

The first fighting contingents of soldiers and military policemen from Latin America arrived in Port-au-Prince on Friday to join the armed international security mission in the country’s fight against terrorizing gangs.