Peter's Blog

A new army is marching for the front lines of the Ukraine war. Though they are dressed in Russian uniforms, these soldiers are half a world away from their homes. Five thousand miles from their position, in Pyongyang, North Korea, a dictator is directing their movements, ordering his men into a conflict that is now […]

While Israeli troops prepare for a possible ground invasion into Lebanon, the U.S. and its allies are scrambling to patch together a temporary ceasefire that could postpone the worst of the conflict.

There’s “no harm” in talking with the West, Iran’s supreme leader said in a recent speech, sparking hopes among some of the country’s adversaries that a nuclear treaty could be on the horizon.

“I speak to you with the calmness of the truth,” Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González told supporters, who had gathered outside his campaign headquarters in Caracas. “We have in our hands the tally sheets that demonstrate our categorical and mathematically irreversible victory.”