President Trump on Saturday said that the airspace surrounding Venezuela should be considered closed, ratcheting up tensions with the Maduro regime and offering yet another sign that he…
Read more Trump Declares That Airspace Around Venezuela Should Be Considered ClosedFor two decades, Venezuela cultivated anti-American allies across the globe, from Russia and China to Cuba and Iran, in the hope of forming a new world order that…
Read more Why Russia and China Are Sitting Out Venezuela’s Clash With TrumpEarlier this year, Armin Papperger opened a new factory that will allow his company to produce more of an essential caliber of artillery shell than the entire U.S.…
Read more The Outspoken CEO Behind the World’s Fastest-Growing Arms MakerThree powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war…
Read more Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in UkrainePlanned pardon of Hernández, convicted for cocaine trafficking, comes before the country’s election. José de Córdoba Source link
Read more Trump to Pardon Honduran Ex-President Serving 45-Year Drug SentenceAnother corruption scandal is roiling Ukraine, and there’s no denying corruption exists there as it does in most of the former Soviet states. The question is whether this…
Read more Opinion | Ukraine Corruption and U.S. InterestsExplosions rocked two tankers sanctioned for carrying Russian oil, the latest in a spate of blasts on such vessels, sparking a rescue operation off Turkey’s Black Sea coast.…
Read more Mystery Blasts Rock Russia-Linked Oil Tankers Off Turkey’s CoastA 28-point plan and President Vladimir Putin’s response to it have offered some of the best clues yet to a fundamental question bedeviling peace talks: What does the…
Read more New Peace Push Offers Clues to Fundamental Question: What Does Putin Want?The departure of Ukraine’s top negotiator—the president’s right-hand man Andriy Yermak—comes at a pivotal moment for the country. Ian Lovett Source link
Read more Zelensky’s Top Aide Resigns as Corruption Probe DeepensBRUSSELS—In the accelerating contest between great powers, Europe is struggling to keep up. The continent’s leaders have long worried they will be left behind as the U.S., China…
Read more Europe Fears It Can’t Catch Up in Great Power CompetitionTaiwan is making the most of the U.S.’s policy of “strategic ambiguity,” even as President Trump’s stance raises concern for some in Taipei. Joyu Wang Source link
Read more Trump Is Silent on Taiwan After Talking to Xi—and That Is Fine With TaipeiCALI, Colombia—They see themselves as the cowboys of the drug trade, highly experienced crews that ferry narcotics on small boats across the open seas, running on a mix…
Read more ‘Deliver or Die’: Inside the Drug-Boat Crews Ferrying Cocaine to the U.S.It was a pre-Thanksgiving afternoon that few Americans could have imagined: U.S. troops defending themselves in a gunfight in the streets of the American capital. A witness took…
Read more Exclusive | Witness Photos Captured Attack on the National GuardIran has sent the Lebanese militia Hezbollah hundreds of millions of dollars over the past year via money exchanges and other businesses in Dubai, as Tehran seeks new…
Read more Exclusive | Iranian Funds for Hezbollah Are Flowing Through DubaiThe fire spread at an astonishing pace. It started Wednesday afternoon. When Ho Wai-ho and his fellow firefighters arrived at the scene about 10 minutes later, the blaze…
Read more The Deadly Mix of Factors That Made a Hong Kong High-Rise Fire so DevastatingU.S. adversaries are using President Trump’s eagerness to strike deals as a chance to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies and undermine the Washington-led security…
Read more Where Trump Sees Deals, Russia and China See a Chance to Disrupt U.S. AlliancesISTANBUL—After a low-profile start to his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV is stepping into the limelight. The first American pope begins his first foreign trip on Thursday, touring Turkey…
Read more Pope Leo Heads to Turkey and Lebanon for His First Foreign TripWhen President Trump decided to send Pentagon representatives to Ukraine in an attempt to resuscitate stalled peace talks, he turned to an unexpected source: Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.…
Read more The JD Vance Classmate Emerging as a Key Player in Talks to End the Ukraine WarChinese leader Xi Jinping was angry, and President Trump was listening. Days after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi outraged China by suggesting a Chinese attack on Taiwan could…
Read more Exclusive | Trump, After Call With China’s Xi, Told Tokyo to Lower the Volume on TaiwanPolice in Hong Kong said three people have been arrested in connection with a fire that engulfed a housing complex and killed at least 36 people. The three…
Read more Three Arrested in Hong Kong Housing Fire That Killed At Least 36