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NAIROBI, Kenya—Kenya’s government spokesman says the top U.S. diplomat for Africa called Kenya’s prime minister to apologize for leaked U.S. diplomatic memos. Alfred Mutua said Tuesday that Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnny […] […]

JERUSALEM—A confidential diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports the notion of land swaps with the Palestinians. But an Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to […] […]

JERUSALEM—Business and construction in the Gaza Strip remain stifled half a year after Israel announced it would ease its three-year-old blockade of the needy, war-ravaged Palestinian territory, a report by several aid groups said Tuesday. […] […]

LONDON—Britain imposed controls on the export of a drug used in American executions Monday, following pressure from death penalty opponents who sought to make it more difficult for U.S. states to obtain the sedative. Secretary […] […]

THE highly anticipated Commission of Enquiry into the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips/Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke affair, which has dogged the Bruce Golding administration since last year, will start on Wednesday a senior Government official told the […] […]

WASHINGTON—Canadians have an “Alice In Wonderland” attitude toward global terrorism, the former head of Canada’s spy service told a U.S. counterpart in 2008, according to a secret American memo disclosed Monday. Canadian Security Intelligence Service […] […]

AN Italian village odd-job man gunned down clients who failed to pay him, killing at least five in the small Sicilian community, a prosecutor claim. Ugo Rossi, chief prosecutor for the city of Syracuse, said […] […]

Question: When I married my husband 18 years ago, he drank socially and sometimes went too far. Since his mother died in 2004, he’s been drinking regularly and hiding it from me. Last year he […] […]

PARTS of Britain have experienced record low temperatures, including minus 17 Celsius in Wales, forecasters say, amid warnings of more heavy snow to come. “You are seeing some ridiculously low temperatures – it has been […] […]

CHINA’S behaviour amid the surge in tensions on the Korean peninsula shows that it is “not a responsible world power”, US Senator John McCain has said. Mr McCain’s remarks came as the United States and […] […]