Neil MacFarquhar

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Neil MacFarquhar

A foul cell in a Moscow detention center was about the last place an American businessman named Michael Calvey expected to find himself after spending 25 years building a flourishing venture capital firm in Russia that transformed some tech startups into global brands. First, beefy agents from the F.S.B., the federal security service, ransacked his apartment before dawn. Hours later he was confined to a holding cell with two other inmates and a filthy hole in the floor for a toilet.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Neil MacFarquhar

Private Mediterranean islands are rather rare, but Punta Pennata, a sliver of land in the Gulf of Naples with the crumbling walls of an old Roman villa tucked amid its overgrown flora, has been on the market for several months. Located about 20 miles from downtown Naples, the narrow island with its abrupt cliffs sits like an exclamation point just off the seaside town of Bacoli.

1 month ago | es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Neil MacFarquhar |Jason Horowitz |Elisabetta Povoledo |Emma Bubola

Desde su hospitalización con neumonía aguda hace dos semanas, el papa Francisco ha firmado el nombramiento de 20 obispos, aceptado la renuncia de al menos cuatro y aprobado el avance en el proceso de canonización de cinco personas, según el boletín diario del sitio web del Vaticano.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Neil MacFarquhar |Jason Horowitz |Elisabetta Povoledo |Emma Bubola

Since being hospitalized with acute pneumonia for two weeks, Pope Francis has signed off on the appointment of 20 bishops, accepted the resignations of at least four and approved moving five people along the road to sainthood, according to the daily bulletin on the Vatican website. Some of the events noted were more esoteric, like his appointing a cardinal to represent him in April at the 1000th anniversary celebration of the coronation of Boleslaw I the Brave, the first king of Poland.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Neil MacFarquhar

12 hours agoVenezuelan men allege mistreatment while in detention in Guantánamo BayWhen Mayfreed Durán Arapé was woken up by a detention guard around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 8, he was confused. A guard at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in El Paso, Texas, told him to pack his stuff. "I kept asking, 'Where am I going?'" Durán Arapé recalled.