Cabello stated that the military exercises are the latest step in a campaign of "maximum pressure" and lies designed to fabricate a pretext for a military aggression.

The General Secretary of Venezuela's United Socialist Party (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, denounced on Monday that the United States is using joint military exercises with Trinidad and Tobago, conducted off the Venezuelan coast, as a clear "provocation" amid escalating aggressions against Caracas.

Anna, a Russian professional, applies for a work permit at the Bund Service Center for International Professionals in Shanghai.

Anna, a Russian professional, applies for a work permit at the Bund Service Center for International Professionals
in Shanghai, eastern China.

Shanghai continues to make steady strides in building a more open, convenient, and supportive environment for international professionals, ensuring that individuals from around the world can work, live, and pursue opportunities in the city with ease.

Melissa's maximum sustained winds are near 165 mph (270 km/h) with higher gusts.

Hurricane Melissa, which formed as a tropical storm last Thursday in the Caribbean Sea, has now reached Category 5 status, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC). The NHC forecasts destructive winds, a life-threatening storm surge, and catastrophic flooding that are expected to worsen in Jamaica throughout the day and into tonight.

USS Gravely, along with a unit of Marines, arrived at Trinidad and Tobago.

A US missile warship arrived on Sunday in Trinidad and Tobago, a small archipelago off the coast of Venezuela, as US President Donald Trump increases pressure on his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro.

Technicians inspect a bullet train at a maintenance facility in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan province.
Technicians inspect a bullet train at a maintenance facility in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan province.
Photo/Wang Wei
 

In 1975, deep in the Qinling Mountains, China's first fully electrified railway, the Baoji-Chengdu Railway, marked the beginning of a transformative journey toward railway modernization.