2+ hour, 7+ min 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…...

1+ week, 6+ 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…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (930+ words) Spooked by President Trump's praise of "very good talks" with Iran, Binyamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington on Tuesday to try to impress upon the US that any deal must curb ballistic missiles as well as Tehran's nuclear ambitions. The Israeli…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1304+ words) At a packed butcher's shop in Detroit, Abdul el-Sayed gives short shrift to the notion that he is the next Zohran Mamdani, whose upstart campaign swept aside the Democratic establishment to win New York's mayoral race. "I don't have any…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (600+ words) A political row has erupted in Spain over the government's decision to grant residency to about 500,000 undocumented migrants. The move sharply diverges from tougher immigration policies taking hold elsewhere in Europe and the United States. Scheduled to be approved by…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (834+ words) Thousands of protesters marched through city streets and businesses were shut down as part of a day of action against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in Minnesota on Friday. In Minneapolis, the state's largest city, demonstrators braved below-freezing temperatures…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (625+ words) Ghislaine Maxwell is set to testify before Congress over her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking ring. Maxwell, who is in a Texas prison camp serving a 20-year sentence, is expected to appear virtually before the House oversight committee on February…...

1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (987+ words) Days after arresting Nicol's Maduro and transferring him to the United States, President Trump announced the next acquisition on his wish list: Greenland. He told reporters on Air Force One that the US had to have the country "from the…...

1+ mon, 3+ 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…...