7 h. ago Maduro is gone, but his regime is intact. The circumstances tell a story | Alejandro Velasco

In the early fray of foreign interventions, evidence is largely circumstantial. But here the circumstances tell a powerful storyAs late as Saturday afternoon, fires continued to smolder in parts of Caracas. Residents throughout the city, stunned and anxious, filled grocery stores and gas stations, stocking up before a future unknown. Everywhere the question hung in the air like the smoke still clouding Venezuela’s capital: what next?After months of military buildup, deadly strikes at sea and a looming ground war, the United States made good on its threats to attack Venezuela in a dramatic overnight raid that ended with Nicolás Maduro in a New York City jail cell. Yet 48 hours later, little else appeared different in Caracas: Maduro’s inner circle remained in place; state institutions remained in their control; streets were calm, if tense, while authorities called on people to return to their daily lives. In other words: move along, nothing to see here.Alejandro Velasco is an associa...

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18 h. ago ‘Out with the Yanks!’: Thousands protest in Colombia as anger builds over Trump’s intervention in Venezuela

President Gustavo Petro called for demonstrations after Trump said he was interested in military action in ColombiaThousands of protesters have taken to the streets of cities across Colombia to decry Donald Trump’s threats to expand his military campaign in South America into their territory, after last weekend’s deadly attack on Venezuela.In Cúcuta, a city on Colombia’s eastern border with Venezuela, several hundred demonstrators marched towards its 19th century cathedral waving the country’s yellow, blue and red flag and shouting: “Fuera los yanquis!” (“Out with the Yanks!”) Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser struggles with Julia Roberts and Venezuela while building monologue

Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser is struggling to figure out the right joke to make about Julia Roberts

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30 h. ago US troops abseil from aircraft in training drills at RAF base as Trump builds up military forces in Britain after capture of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro

Elite soldiers were seen rappelling from CV-22B tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft as part of an exercise at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire yesterday.

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46 h. ago Nikki Glaser reveals the celebrity she’s afraid to roast at 2026 Golden Globes

The stand-up comedian will host the glamorous event for the second time this Sunday after making history last year as the first woman to host the show solo

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58 h. ago US military builds up aircraft at bases in Britain as fleet of C

The United States is building up air forces in Britain following its audacious capture of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. Ten C-17s and two AC-130Js have landed in recent days.

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3 d. ago The Golden Globes are this week. Here's what to know about the first major show of awards season

The Golden Globes kick off Hollywood’s awards season on Sunday

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3 d. ago Mickey Rourke launches fundraiser to pay $60,000 in rent after threat of eviction

The 73-year-old Oscar-nominated actor was issued with an eviction notice in DecemberMickey Rourke has turned to fundraising to pay the US$59,100 (£44,000, A$89,000) he allegedly owes in rent, after being sued by his landlord and facing eviction from his Los Angeles home.The 73-year-old actor, who was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for his performance in the 2008 drama The Wrestler, has approved a GoFundMe page launched by Liya-Joelle Jones, a friend and member of Rourke’s management team. At time of writing, the fundraiser had raised US$33,000 of its US$100,000 goal. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Ricky Gervais making 'self parody' TV show as Netflix hit shortlisted for Golden Globe

Six years after RIcky Gervais tore into Hollywood's elite when he was host of the Golden Globes, he's been nominated for a gong for his new Netflix show, Mortality

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6 d. ago Claire Foy says playing Queen Elizabeth II felt like ‘just another role’

The actress won two Emmy awards and a Golden Globe for the role.

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1 week ago Babylon’s Diego Calva on playing a villain in The Night Manager: ‘Sometimes silence is more threatening’

The Golden Globe-nominated Mexican actor talks to Patrick Smith about not forgetting his roots, learning from Brad Pitt and Tom Hiddleston, and his early love for Pete Tong’s ‘Essential Mix’

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2 w. ago James Cameron calls out Amy Poehler joke that ‘went too far’

‘The fact that people found it funny shows exactly what they think of me,’ director said

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2 w. ago James Cameron calls out Amy Poehler’s ‘ignorant’ Golden Globes joke that ‘went too far’

‘The fact that people found it funny shows exactly what they think of me,’ director said

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2 w. ago The 2025 Bad Manner awards: Etiquette expert LAURA WINDSOR reveals the rudest A

LAURA WINDSOR: It's not the BAFTAs, Golden Globes or Brit Awards, it's the BMAs: the Bad Manners Awards - the accolade most public figures wish to avoid.

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2 w. ago US to build new ‘Trump class’ warships as military pressure campaign around Venezuela ramps up

Trump denies new ‘Golden Fleet’ is aimed at countering China

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3 w. ago Dwayne Johnson TOWERS over pal Kevin Hart at Golden Globes nominee luncheon in Beverly Hills

Dwayne Johnson towered over his close pal Kevin Hart as they attended the 83rd Annual Golden Globes First-Time Nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills on Wednesday.

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3 w. ago What rhymes with la la la, la la la la la? Kevin Killian, the poet obsessed with Kylie Minogue

He wrote poems named after Kylie songs and named his collection of erotic fiction after her indie album. He even loved the B-sides. So what did the avant garde writer find so inspiring about the mini Melbourne marvel? Kevin Killian was obsessed with stars. Not in a metaphysical sense, like the grand lineage of poets that went before him, but the celebrity kind. Some were A-listers – he kept a vast database on Julia Roberts – and some more obscure. In 2000, taken by the work of cult literary sensation JT LeRoy, and confusion about their identity, Killian gave public readings of their work in San Francisco, where he had lived for 20 years after moving from New York. He would also turn unknown poets into local celebrities, hosting poetry events and making rapturous introductions to crowds that were occasionally outnumbered by the people on stage. “Anyone he admired was an A-lister,” says poet and friend, Evan Kennedy, “especially unknown poets. He’d enthuse about someone, and I’d say ‘...

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3 w. ago George Clooney, 64, admits his Hollywood heartthrob days are over  and following discussions with wife Amal, 47, 'won't be kissing anymore girls' onscreen

The actor, 64, who has starred in a string romcoms throughout his career smooching the likes Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones , said his age now ruled out any further such roles.

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3 w. ago Timothee Chalamet says new film Marty Supreme is an ‘antidote to dark times’

The film has received three Golden Globe nominations.

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4 w. ago Video shows moment US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker, Trump administration says

The Trump administration has released video of what it says is the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela following months of US military buildup around the region.

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