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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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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
US President Donald Trump has spoken of launching direct attacks on Venezuela. Bloomberg
Trump signals willingness to talk with Maduro as Caribbean tension intensifies

Washington designates Venezuela-linked Cartel de los Soles as foreign terrorist organisation

USNovember 25, 2025
The funerals of three Ukrainian army volunteers whose remains were recently identified using DNA analysis after they were killed by Russian attacks in 2022, in the town of Irpin. Reuters
Trump says 'only few points of disagreement' remain on Ukraine peace plan

Europe prepares to seize frozen Russian funds in push for Ukraine peace deal

EuropeNovember 25, 2025
Donald Trump speaks to reporters outside the White House. EPA
Trump to designate Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organisation

US President tells news outlet 'it will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms'

USNovember 23, 2025
Donald Trump took aim at Volodymyr Zelenskyy, among others, on Truth Social. AFP
Trump blasts Ukraine for showing 'zero gratitude'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio denies calling 28-point US-backed peace plan a Russian 'wish list'

USNovember 23, 2025
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announces his re-election campaign in Houston, on November 9. Houston Chronicle via AP
Texas designates Muslim Brotherhood and Cair as foreign terrorist groups

Governor says the two, also classed as transnational criminal groups, aim to 'forcibly impose Sharia'

USNovember 18, 2025
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