Venezuela

Kristalina Georgieva. (Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) Written by Alan Rappeport The European Union on Friday nominated Kristalina Georgieva, a Bulgarian economist, to replace Christine Lagarde as managing director of the International Monetary Fund …

It is reasonable to believe that some beneficial domestic policies will emerge from the American nationalist movement. Tucker Carlson, Oren Cass, Julius Krein, and others are capable advocates of economic and social policies that would serve ordinary American…

As a child growing up in a vividly violent Jamaican ghetto, Ian Salmon remembers being regularly beaten by his father, who once reached for a hammer while holding a nail in his ear after a family friend complained the boy had cursed at her. Decades later, Sa…

As Captive Nations Week came to a close earlier this month, three nations in Latin America were still far from escaping the death grip of communist regimes. What were talking about here is not just politics and policy, said Marion Smith, executive director o…

The hotel charged by the hour, but the two young Cubans dirty, hungry and dazed after being released from detention in the United States and pushed back into Mexico had nowhere else to go. The pair and some fellow Cubans detained with them pooled a few crump…

HONG KONG/PARIS - Billy has been the butt of criticism from friends for taking part in Hong Kong’s protests. Undeterred, he sees his marching days as just beginning. “We have to continue to protest until our demands are met,” said the 28-year-old accountant,…

BOGOTA - Its six in the morning and Samuel Romero is already pulling his bicycle out of a small garage. The 21-year-old Venezuelan migrant turns on his phone and logs on to Rappi, an app through which freelance cyclists get paid to make deliveries around Bog…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) It's six in the morning and Samuel Romero is already pulling his bicycle out of a small garage. The 21-year-old Venezuelan migrant turns on his phone and logs on to Rappi, an app through which freelance cyclists get paid to make deliver…

Posted July 27, 2019 07:30:00 Everyone loves to see their political foes covered in food. After all, what could be more humiliating than being smacked with an egg that then runs down your face? Earlier this year, opponents of Fraser Anning praised "Egg B…

Today is the 206th day of 2019. There are 159 days left inthe year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 1978: The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born; a 5-pound, 12-ounce (2.58-kilogramme) healthy girl delivered by Caesarean section in Lancashire, England. O…