President Trump wants Latin American countries to shift closer into Washington’s orbit, raising echoes of the Monroe Doctrine, when the United States claimed the Western Hemisphere as its domain. This week, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is hosting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and other leading officials from Latin America and the Caribbean […]
U.S. said it made ‘progress’ toward a deal with China Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday that the U.S. had made “substantial progress” in talks with China after a weekend of meetings in Geneva, and that more details would be announced today. Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative who joined Bessent for the talks, suggested […]
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost’s ascension to the papacy marks an extraordinary moment for American leadership on the world stage at a time when President Trump has transformed the country’s reputation abroad and fueled distrust among longtime allies. But while two Americans now sit in positions of enormous global influence, Pope Leo XIV may offer the […]
The escalating conflict between India and Pakistan has forced both countries to suspend or move their cash-rich cricket leagues. The Indian Premier League, one of the world’s richest sports competitions with 10 franchises valued at about $1 billion each, said it had suspended the matches of its ongoing season for a week. The league’s five-year […]
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As a boy growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the future Pope Leo XIV did not pretend to be a cowboy or a bank robber. Instead, he liked to play priest, according to his eldest brother, Louis Prevost. “We teased him a lot about, ‘Na na na, you’re gonna be the pope,’” Mr. Prevost, […]
Poland has accused Russian intelligence services of orchestrating a massive fire that nearly completely destroyed a shopping centre in the capital Warsaw last year. In a post on X, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland knows “for sure” that the blaze at the Marywilska shopping centre was caused by arson ordered by the Russian special […]
In 2023, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was a delegate to a global assembly of bishops, convened by Pope Francis, when discussion turned to whether women could serve as deacons. The cardinal was not supportive. “Clericalizing women,” he said, would not “necessarily” solve problems in the church — and could perhaps create new ones. “It isn’t […]
Six weeks ago, a van piled high with flowers pulled up at the International Criminal Court’s detention center in The Hague. The court also received deliveries of birthday cards. Lots and lots of them. They were all for the newest inmate, Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, who turned 80 on March 28. […]
Ibrahim Traoré/X A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso’s military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has skilfully built the persona of a pan-Africanist leader determined to free his nation from what he regards as the clutches of Western imperialism and neo-colonialism. His message has resonated across Africa and beyond, with his admirers seeing him as following in the […]