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Washington and Moscow traded barbs over Venezuela on Sunday with Russia’s foreign minister urging the United States to abandon its “irresponsible” plan to depose Nicolás “Venezuela: Russia urges US to abandon ‘irresponsible’ plan to topple Maduro”

Having made his first, brazenly ambitious feature at the age of 27, and finding himself compared to the young Orson Welles, American writer-director Brady Corbet “Vox Lux director Brady Corbet: ‘The movie is about the desire to be iconic’”

Somali-American model Halima Aden has become the first Muslim model to appear in Sports Illustrated magazine wearing a hijab and burkini. She appeared in the “Halima Aden becomes first model to wear a burkini in Sports Illustrated”

As Venezuela slumps further into crisis, White House officials from Donald Trump down have made repeated expressions of support for the country’s people. But such “Trump administration denies special help to Venezuelans seeking asylum”

A police station in north-eastern Paris had to be evacuated on Sunday after it was invaded by fleas, a police union said. “Police station closed “Flee! French police forced to close Paris station after flea invasion”

Madonna, a pioneer for gay rights, accepted the advocate for change award at the 2019 Glaad media awards, with a rousing speech that went from “Madonna gives rousing speech on why she fought for change at Glaad awards”

Egyptian and Emirati influence on Donald Trump has thrown US policy on Libya into turmoil at a moment when Tripoli is under attack and the “‘No coherent policy’: Trump’s scattergun approach plunges Libya deeper into peril”

One of the Arab world’s most visible advocacy groups defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people is facing closure following legal “Tunisia invokes sharia law in bid to shut down LGBT rights group”

It happens on the third day, after our bookbinding class, having spent the morning deep in concentration learning how to Coptic-stitch and emboss our own “Hats off to Fez: go back in time in this atmospheric city”

For the past five years, I’ve taken my kids camping once a month. On Fridays I load our tent and gear and we drive to “How going camping saved my sanity – and made me a better father”