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Sara Ruthven

Sara Ruthven

Deputy Washington Bureau Chief
Sara is the Deputy Bureau Chief for the US. Prior to joining the publication, she spent several years based in Mexico as a journalist covering Latin America.
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Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, left, and US President Donald Trump. AFP
Trump says Cuba will no longer receive Venezuelan oil

Havana accuses US of being 'criminal and uncontrolled hegemon' that threatens global security

USJanuary 11, 2026
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, left, and US President Donald Trump. AFP
Colombia's Gustavo Petro denies he 'knelt' for Donald Trump in phone conversation

US Senate narrowly passes bill directing removal of military from hostilities within or against Venezuela in blow to White House

USJanuary 08, 2026
Maria Corina Machado planned to run for president against Nicolas Maduro in 2023 after sweeping the primaries, but the Venezuelan government barred her from the ballot. AFP
Nobel winner Machado says she'll return to Venezuela soon and calls for release of political prisoners

US delegate to Organisation of American States interrupted by protest

USJanuary 06, 2026
Colombian soldiers stationed in Cucuta, at the porous border with Venezuela. Reuters
Colombia sends 30,000 troops to Venezuela border following US strikes

Emergency meeting of Community of Latin American and Caribbean States ends without joint statement condemning capture of Nicolas Maduro

USJanuary 05, 2026
President George W Bush in 2003 with his secretary of state Colin Powell, left, and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld. AFP
US stance on Venezuela carries haunting echoes of Iraq war

President Donald Trump, who vowed to end forever wars, seems to be using same playbook for Venezuela that bogged US down for 20 years in Iraq

USJanuary 03, 2026
Smoke rises from explosions in Caracas, Venezuela. Reuters
UN leads condemnation of Trump's removal of Venezuela's Maduro

US forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and sent him to New York to face charges

USJanuary 03, 2026
Nicolas Maduro speaks in the Venezuelan capital Caracas last month. EPA
Who is Nicolas Maduro, the captured Venezuelan leader?

US has accused Venezuela's President of 'narco-terrorism'

USJanuary 03, 2026
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on the USS Iwo Jima after his capture by US forces. Photo: Truth Social / @realDonaldTrump
Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela after seizing Maduro in raid

US President compares extraction to strikes on Iran's Qassem Suleimani and ISIS leader Al Baghdadi

USJanuary 03, 2026
President Nicolas Maduro said Venezuela was a 'brother country' to the US. AFP
Maduro says he's open to talks with US after latest Caribbean strike

Caracas has detained several American citizens over the past five months, reports say

USJanuary 02, 2026
Janti Soeripto, the president and chief executive of Save the Children US, speaks to The National photo: Nilanjana Gupta / The National
ExclusiveGaza babies freezing to death 'heartbreaking', says Save the Children US chief

Janti Soeripto tells The National that despite foreign aid cuts, child-focused charities determined to 'never waste a crisis'

MENADecember 23, 2025
US Syria strikes ISIS. AFP / Reuters / Centcom
Five ISIS fighters killed in US strikes on Syria in response to Palmyra attacks

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said action is 'not the beginning of a war - it is a declaration of vengeance'

USDecember 20, 2025
Syrians in Latakia celebrate the anniversary of the downfall of the regime of former president Bashar Al Assad. Reuters
Trump signs bill that includes repeal of Caesar Act sanctions on Syria

Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 aimed at members of Bashar Al Assad's regime

USDecember 17, 2025
Cash, fentanyl and a pistol on display at FBI headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Two men were facing federal charges last month after 21kg of the drug were confiscated in a raid in Forest Park. EPA
Donald Trump declares drug fentanyl a 'weapon of mass destruction'

Drug blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in the US

USDecember 15, 2025
Lebanese army soldiers in a tunnel used by Hezbollah militants near the border with Israeli in the Zibqin Valley. AP
US bill links Lebanese army aid to Hezbollah disarmament

Trump administration, which sent $230m to Beirut in October, is impatient about progress of bringing weapons under state control

USDecember 09, 2025
Donald Trump's administration halted the processing of Afghan visa claims after National Guardsmen were shot in Washington last month. EPA
US halts immigration applications for citizens of 19 'high-risk countries'

Government says aim is to 'safeguard US citizens'

USDecember 03, 2025
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