Texas GOP lawmaker visits Venezuela to meet with Maduro A Texas Republican lawmaker privately traveled to Venezuela this week at the invitation of President Nicolas Maduro as part of a peacemaking mission, The Associated Press reports. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) met with Maduro during a two-day trip to the South […]

Brazil braces for looming arrest of ex-President ‘Lula’ Latin America’s largest nation prepared for what would have been unimaginable just a few years ago: the arrest of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a once wildly popular leader whose administrations were credited with bringing millions out of poverty in […]

Hither Green ‘burglar’ stabbing: Man, 78, arrested A 78-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a suspected burglar was stabbed to death. The man, named locally as Richard Osborn-Brooks, discovered two intruders in South Park Crescent, Hither Green, south-east London, at about 00:45 BST. One suspect, armed […]

Can Trump really quit Syria? The Trump administration’s schizophrenic messaging around Syria has only gotten more confusing in recent days. As some of the war’s biggest outside players jockeyed in Ankara, reports indicated that the United States is building two new military bases in northern Syria. About 2,000 U.S. troops […]