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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has told reporters that she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it, BBC reported. 

"I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans," she said after meeting Trump, the first time the two have met in-person. 

In the weeks after US forces seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Trump has declined to endorse Machado, whose movement claimed victory in 2024's widely contested elections, as its new leader, according to BBC. 

Iran reopened its airspace after a near-five-hour closure amid ⁠concerns about possible military action between the US and Iran that forced airlines to cancel, reroute or delay some flights, Reuters reported. 

Iran closed its airspace to all flights except international ones to and from Iran with official permission at 5:15 p.m. ET (2215 GMT) on Wednesday, according to a notice on ‌the US Federal Aviation ‌Administration website. 
 

A British diplomat has been ordered to leave Russia, with officials accusing the man of being an intelligence agent working undercover at the embassy in Moscow, BBC reported. 

The man, who has not been identified, has been stripped of his accreditation and must leave the country within two weeks, Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday.

In a statement, the ministry added that it had summoned British charge d'affaires Danae Dholakia over the matter, according to BBC. 

The Donald Trump administration has indefinitely suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, marking one of its most expansive efforts yet to restrict legal pathways to the United States, The Guardian reported. 

The freeze, which takes effect on 21 January, targets applicants officials deem likely to become a “public charge” – who they describe as people who may rely on government benefits for basic needs.

The state department wrote on social mediathat it “will pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates”.