Investigative Journalism
In the Roosevelt Room of the White House, the president basked in applause and announced that the Environmental Protection Agency would no longer regulate greenhouse gases. What sounds technical is politically a frontal assault on the ...
The past months mark not an ordinary foreign policy dispute, but a structural rupture. When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared at the end of January that Washington was prepared to use force to secure "maximum cooperation" from Venezuela’s leadership, ...
An internal document from Vietnam’s Ministry of Defense shows how deeply mistrust toward the United States still runs – even a year after relations were formally upgraded to the highest ...
At the end of December, Saudi fighter jets struck the Yemeni port city of Mukalla. According to Riyadh, the target was a weapons shipment supplied by the United Arab Emirates and intended for the Southern Transitional Council. What had ...
In Minneapolis, officers of the US immigration agency ICE attempted to enter the Ecuadorian consulate without permission. Not covertly, not by mistake, but in broad daylight, at a door clearly marked as a diplomatic mission ...
It was supposed to be a speech about the economy. Perhaps a few words about housing policy as well, as his advisers had announced for weeks. Forty-five minutes were scheduled. In the end, Donald Trump spoke for more ...
Davos is not a place for plain talk. At least it was not for a long time. This January, however, something has shifted. The threats from Washington to pressure Greenland and use tariffs as leverage have forced ...
In these days, a heavy, leaden mood hangs over Copenhagen. Not only because of the winter, but because many people in Denmark feel that something fundamental has broken ..
Donald Trump is introducing a new level of escalation. Countries that do not align themselves with the US demand for control over Greenland could be hit with punitive tariffs. He did not provide details ...
In the United States, a political shift is underway that comes with hardly any slogans or grand gestures, yet runs deep. More and more people no longer want to identify with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
Marco Rubio has announced that he will meet next week with Danish and Greenlandic government representatives. It is a meeting born not of diplomatic routine, but of growing pressure ...
Our intensive investigations show that the US administration’s belligerent change of course is not merely the result of diplomatic pressure or spontaneous reactions to provocative overflights by Venezuelan jets. It is built on internal intelligence papers that show how ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran stands on the brink of its next major escalation. For days, protests have spread across the country, born of economic desperation and turning into an open ...
In the middle of the open sea, the crew turned to paint and calculation. While U.S. units were tracking the oil tanker Bella 1, a Russian flag suddenly appeared on the hull. Not a symbol of conviction, but a shield ...
After the U.S. airstrikes in northwestern Nigeria, Donald Trump declared that the targets had been fighters of the Islamic State who were brutally murdering Christians. The message was clear, sharpened, easy to connect with ...
Emmanuel Macron found unusually clear words. The sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on former British and European officials were aimed at undermining Europe’s digital sovereignty. No diplomatic formula, ...
Shortly before the results were announced, a whole series of wines vanished from the program of the renowned San Francisco International Wine Competition. Not because of poor ratings, not because of formal deficiencies - ...
It was not a performance. It was a calculated moment for the cameras. Donald Trump spoke, and something in the room shifted. He did not talk about strategies or timelines ...
Arauca, Colombia - Donald Trump has tightened the tone in the Caribbean once again. An oil tanker, the Skipper, was stopped by the Coast Guard in international waters off Venezuela, its boarding enabled by a helicopter ...
The day in London could hardly have gone worse for Donald Trump. While he loudly claimed in Washington that the Ukrainian president had not read his “peace offer,” a coalition was forming on Downing Street ...
There are crimes executed so deliberately that at some point one must stop speaking of isolated cases. The abduction of Ukrainian children is one of them. It is systematic, planned, and built over years ...
Donald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth presented the September 2 strike at the time as proof that their administration was acting decisively against violence in the region. One boat, eleven dead, a quick success ...
Venezuela seems in these weeks like a country that has already begun to prepare internally for an emergency. Behind closed doors, far from public press conferences, military officials and government advisers have drawn up two scenarios that are to be activated only in one case: ...
In Hallandale Beach, American and Ukrainian negotiators met at a place that looks more like a golf tournament than world politics. But behind the glass fronts of the club, the talks went far beyond courtesies ...
Again one of those nights in which Ukraine is burning while elsewhere people speculate whether Putin is suddenly ready to negotiate. In Kyiv, Russian drones, missiles and ballistic weapons struck completely ...
A picture is spreading in Germany that has little to do with reality in Washington: Marco Rubio as the man who defused a plan fatal to Ukraine at the last second ...
The Ukrainian delegation has returned from Geneva, and what President Zelensky is now making public shows more clearly than any government spokesperson in Washington how fragile these talks are and how much ...
In Bucha, where mass graves, bullet holes, and the smell of burned wood still remind people of what Russian soldiers left behind in the spring of 2022, residents are grappling with a new burden ...
It feels like a moment in which several political axes are shifting at the same time. While Donald Trump publicly pressures Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign his peace plan by Thanksgiving, ...
Belém - It happens in seconds, yet it changes the mood of an entire summit. Around midday, a fire broke out in one of the pavilions of COP30 in Belém - right in the Blue Zone, ...
In the Oval Office, two men sit next to each other who know exactly what is at stake that afternoon. On one side Donald Trump, the president who is back at the lever ...
Arauca, Colombia - The USS Gerald R. Ford, the most advanced aircraft carrier of the United States, has arrived in the Caribbean. A ship of enormous presence, accompanied by fighter jets and destroyers ...
They came in boats, buses, trucks, on foot and with the unshakable determination of those who know that time is running out for them. From the Andes of Ecuador, the rainforests of Peru, ...
New York – The statement by New York City’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has drawn international attention. Mamdani declared in several interviews that he would order the arrest of Israeli Prime ...
Miami - It sounds like a satire on the state of the world: FIFA, that billion-dollar syndicate of officials, corporations, and statesmen, has announced the creation of a "Peace Prize" - and intends ...
Trump's administration has erased the boundary between politics and profit. The state has become a service for its donors. By the end of October 2025, the Trump administration had suspended, dropped, or closed a total of 204 investigations ...
In a hall of glass and gold, under chandeliers that seemed more like symbols than sources of light, Donald Trump Jr. stood on the stage of the “Future Investment Initiative” forum in Riyadh ...
You pass through a gate that is little more than a wall, and the world changes. On one side, the city - dusty, loud, marked by trade and daily life; ...
For months, Donald Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin had been a performance of bluster and hesitation, of loud announcements and quiet retreats. But on this Wednesday, the posturing ended. The President ...
Japan’s political scene stands at a turning point – and at the same time before a mirror in which familiar contours from Washington, Rome, and Budapest are reflected. A governing party loses its majority, a long-standing coalition ...
Maria worked for 13 dollars an hour. She cleaned schools in Florida, receiving a check every two weeks for 900 dollars - enough to survive with her eleven-year-old son ...
Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. Southern Command and top military commander for Central and South America, has resigned - out of conscience. He no longer wanted to be part of a war that is not one ...
It was a sentence that struck like a detonator in the history of American foreign policy - casually spoken, but with tectonic force. "I authorized it," Donald Trump said Wednesday in the Oval Office when a journalist ...
It is a global confrontation without cannons but with similar destructive power. What once served as a technocratic instrument of economic control - tariffs, visas, export restrictions - has long since become a weapon ...
It takes a peculiar mixture of self-confidence in power and intellectual carelessness when an incumbent attorney general announces before rolling cameras that she will “take apart the entire Antifa.” Pam Bondi said it as if she were ...
In the United States, the movement that once brought millions of people into the streets has almost disappeared - not because it failed, but because it was deliberately silenced ...
It was to be expected - and yet again a spectacle for the history books. While in Oslo the cameras were focused on a 58-year-old Venezuelan woman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering ...
Four men dead, a burning boat off the coast of Venezuela - and a U.S. government that spins a war narrative out of it. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared on Friday that the strike ...
A not publicly released, unclassified communication to Congress, 17 dead at sea, a new narrative: Donald Trump has it recorded that the United States is in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels ...
It was meant to be a symbolic moment: Kash Patel, newly appointed FBI Director of the Trump administration, traveled to Wellington at the end of July to inaugurate the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand ...