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Yesterday — 16 October 2025Main stream

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

The development comes as the U.S. military is drawing up options for President Trump to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.

© Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times

Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, in Caracas last month. American officials have been clear, privately, that the Trump administration aims to drive Mr. Maduro from power.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Russia Accuses Antiwar Exiles of Terrorism

14 October 2025 at 20:48
An intelligence agency’s sweeping investigation shows that Moscow is closely following the anti-Kremlin activities of Russians abroad.

© Kin Cheung/Associated Press

The exiled opposition figure Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky in London last year. The F.S.B. accused a group he founded, the Russian Antiwar Committee, of plotting to overthrow the government.

Fragments of 2003 Cable Detail Torture in a Secret C.I.A. Prison

13 October 2025 at 17:09
An interrogator covertly used a power drill and handgun to menace a prisoner, without permission from the agency’s headquarters.

The document offers some insight into the way Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was tortured.
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