They hope that the men who have made their country miserable, prompting the recent emigration of a quarter of the country’s ...

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Russia is just too powerful to fight and, as in Ukraine, will just grind it out. Besides, Mr Trump argues, European weakness ...

You find what space you can in Burundi, where 14m people squeeze into an area not much bigger than Wales or Massachusetts.

Donald Trump says Venezuela’s people are “free again”, now that its dictator has been removed. But freedom remains far from ...

If the aim of Vladimir Putin’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy system was to cripple the country’s will to fight, it did not seem ...

One century ago this week, the Widows’, Orphans’ and Old-Age Contributory Pensions Act came into force. Workers and employers ...

Eighteen years ago, under Hugo Chávez, Venezuela nationalised assets belonging to American and other Western companies; ...

He claimed that his one telephone conversation with President Donald Trump, in November, was “cordial”. He used to tell his ...

In fact, the truth of America’s nighttime raid on Venezuela to capture and whisk away Nicolás Maduro, its leader, is ...

Snatching Nicolás Maduro and attempting to take control of Venezuela and its oil is an extraordinary display of the new ...

After months of military build up, an overnight bombing campaign and helicopter raid has deposed Venezuela’s strongman ...