‘i finally got the call telling me: “baghdad will see you now”’

Distressed at the regime in Nicaragua today, our columnist can hardly believe that President Daniel Ortega was once so gracious

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“He came, he bombed, he ended the war.” ...

It was a 24/7 existence. The phone did not stop ringing. It was like being on Concorde for six years, and I loved it. The speed at which they went from A-Z was incredible. They did the Marquee, then t

IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re