Kasra Naji Special Correspondent, BBC Persian BBC After spending nearly two weeks in a secret bunker somewhere in Iran during his country’s war with Israel, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, might want to use the opportunity of the ceasefire to venture out. He is believed to be holed up, incommunicado, for the fear...
Smoke has emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney after the first ballot of the conclave – the secretive process to choose a new pope. Black smoke means more voting will take place tomorrow. If the smoke had been white a new pope would have been chosen. Follow the latest on this story here. Read full...
Perhaps the greatest irony about the ascension of Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the former CEO and Chairman of the Board of Nestlé, to the throne at the World Economic Forum is that the wave of criticism aimed at him is largely based on a misinterpretation of his most controversial comment.  As a critic of the World...
It’s a truism of Minnesota politics – when you want the latest news about any DFL (Minnesotan for “Democrat”) politician, go to the London Daily Mail or, on a good day, the New York Post.  Last week, Hot Air’s David Strom was Wh among the first to cover the release audio of Minnesota Attorney General...