Venezuela and the United States have taken first steps towards restoring diplomatic ties after a dramatic US military raid led to the capture and ouster of Venezuelan ex-President Nicolas Maduroand his wife Cilia Flores last week. Venezuela said on Friday that it had launched talks with the US on reestablishing relations as a team of US diplomats and a security detail visited the South American country.
As the Taliban returned to power in August 2021 following the chaotic withdrawal of US forces, which triggered the collapse of the Western-backed government in Kabul, India was forced to shut its embassy and hurriedly pull out its diplomats and citizens. More than four years later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government has rolled out a red carpet for an Afghan delegation led by the Taliban administration's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in the capital, New Delhi.
