There’s a hilarious BBC skit titled The Treaty of Westphalia (part of it’s the Complete History of Everything) which imagines the dialogues between European superpowers as they divide the continent, taking digs at each other’s fish-eating habits (pickled herring), bonding over the desire to kick German arse, figuring out how to split Luxembourg, and wondering…
President Donald Trump listens to Sec. of State Marco Rubio speak during a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) When US forces moved in on Nicolás Maduro in January 2026, it looked like a dramatic end to a long-running crisis….
US President Donald Trump turned a routine White House press conference into an unscripted comedy beat on Friday when he read out a private handwritten note from Secretary of State Marco Rubio — live on television. Seated between Vice President JD Vance and Rubio during a meeting with oil and gas executives, Trump casually announced…
US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Saturday said that America’s efforts to strengthen its relationship with Pakistan will not come at the expense of its “good” partnership with India and pointed out that Washington had a long history of partnering with Islamabad on counterterrorism. Responding to a reporter during a press briefing over the…