The petro state

President Trump’s challenge to Nicolás Maduro highlights echoes of the Monroe Doctrine and a new phase in U.S. hemispheric strategy

What a pity they are almost all dead. The Argentines who were around in the 1940s and ’50s, and old enough to remember Evita and to know what was going on. They could have come to Washington and reliv

IT WAS AROUND MIDNIGHT IN MOSCOW WHEN Vladimir Putin took a call from the White House. President Donald Trump had just spent several hours, on Aug. 18, in meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Z

The tiny Gulf state has become a major player on the world stage, working to resolve some of the most intractable conflicts. Is it driven by a genuine wish to promote peace – or is it simply pursuing its own interests? Nesrine Malik reports

SIR MICHAEL PALIN on the challenges of visiting troubled but little explored Venezuela

But Panayiotou wanted more. He moved to Los Angeles and started creating content in English, amassing 2.7m YouTube subscribers through outrageous challenges, from fasting for 30 days to living in an a