It was well after 2 a.m., but an aide to Vice President JD Vance was trying to roust a senior Ukrainian official out of his bed in a Munich hotel. He wanted a face-to-face meeting to close a deal letting the United States extract valuable minerals in Ukraine, a priority of the new president, Donald…
Fifty years ago, my father, an American war reporter, climbed over the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and scrambled onto a chopper that took off from a roof in the mission. “My last view of Saigon was through the tail door of the helicopter,” he wrote in the Chicago Daily News. “Then the…
RAIPUR: This Republic Day will come in Tricolour for at least 30 villages in the erstwhile Maoist strongholds of Bastar, once dominated by Hidma’s PLGA Battalion 1. For the first time since the Maoist insurgency erupted in Bastar over two decades ago, tribals in these villages will see the unfurling of the national flag instead…
James Arthur Ray, an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker who spent two years in prison for manslaughter after the 2009 deaths of three people in a sweat lodge, the culmination of a three-day spiritual program he ran in the Arizona desert, died on Jan. 3 in Henderson, Nev. He was 67. His brother, Jon Ray, announced the…
Syrian government forces withdrew from the key city of Homs on Saturday, marking a significant setback for President Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Insurgents continued to press towards the capital, Damascus, raising concerns about the collapse of Assad’s government, news agency Reuters reported. The withdrawal from Homs followed a rapid series of defeats for Syrian government forces,…