Month: August 2011

PRIME Minister David Cameron has threatened to call in the army and clamp down on social media in response to Britain’s worst riots in decades. As a police crackdown and heavy rain prevented a fifth […] […]

TWIN bomb attacks in western Iraq have killed three people while a string of four explosions in Baghdad wounded 10 others, officials say. A total of 39 people were wounded in violence overnight. In the […] […]

THE US and Turkey agreed on the need for a “transition to democracy” in Syria today, as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces killed at least 16 people after storming more towns in pursuit of anti-regime protesters. […] […]

FIVE US soldiers have been killed by a bomb in Afghanistan, as the Taliban rejected claims that the fighters who shot down a US helicopter last week had perished in a NATO air strike. The […] […]

POLICE have begun raiding houses across London to make arrests over the riots that rocked the British capital, with more than 100 warrants issued already, a senior Scotland Yard officer says. Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant […] […]

THROUGHOUT the night and into the morning they streamed into the dock of the court in London, a parade of dozens of people from all walks of life charged over the riots that rocked the […] […]

LONDON—Stores smashed and looted by rampaging mobs, buildings in flames—the damage was to London and other English cities, but the images were beamed around the world. Four days of riots have already cost businesses and […] […]

BIRMINGHAM, England—With police nowhere to be seen, the Muslims of a poor neighborhood armed themselves with bricks and stones, clubs and cricket bats to fend off marauding gangs. Their midnight stand in Birmingham saved a […] […]

THE deaths of three men in Birmingham raised police fears about frustrated British citizens taking matters into their own hands last night as vigilante groups sprang up in several cities to protect the streets from […] […]