5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (651+ words) The Pope’s sessions in the gym will pay off on Good Friday, when he will carry a large wooden cross around the Colosseum. Leo, 70, will carry it throughout all 14 Stations of the Cross at the ancient Roman arena, symbolising Jesus’s…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (486+ words) President Trump has threatened to overthrow the communist government in Cuba but said he wanted to wait “a couple of weeks” after military interventions in Venezuela and Iran. Cuba is experiencing economic turmoil caused by a US blockade in the…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (963+ words) From his secret bunker last June, as Israeli missiles rained down on Tehran, Iran’s supreme leader issued an instruction he had never given before: to prepare for his succession. With the threat of decapitation strikes hanging over him, Ayatollah Khamenei…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago   (865+ words) International flights are being cancelled. Petrol has all but run out. Universities have closed. The electricity supply is more off than on. And nobody quite knows how it will end. President Trump’s bet is that the communist government of Cuba…...

8+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1135+ words) The old airstrip in Maicao is a place where no one chooses to live. Yet over the past decade thousands of Venezuelan refugees have settled here, crossing the border eight miles away and putting down their bags in the first…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (823+ words) But Trump was clearest in the press conference he held later that morning, when he declared that the US would “run” Venezuela for now, invoked the doctrine as “American foreign policy dating back two centuries” and claimed “they now call…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (741+ words) President Trump’s most senior adviser has criticised an interview in which she is quoted as describing the US president as having an “alcoholic’s personality”, JD Vance as a “conspiracy theorist for a decade” and Elon Musk as an “avowed ketamine…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1611+ words) Marco Rubio lives two lives. His days begin at the State Department and end at the White House. He is the first figure since Henry Kissinger to hold the posts of national security adviser and secretary of state at the…...

10+ mon, 6+ day ago   (887+ words) According to Nicolás Maduro, the strongman leader of Venezuela, there is one man responsible for the armada of American warships assembled off his country’s Caribbean coast. President Trump may be the US commander-in-chief. But it is his secretary of state,…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (715+ words) The family of a Colombian fisherman said to have been killed in an American strike in the Caribbean say they have yet to be contacted by the White House and will not accept that he is dead until they see…...