Politics

An agreement between the United States and Russia to slash their nuclear arsenals was in danger of collapse after an influential Republican senator said yesterday that it should not be voted on this year. With […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran said Wednesday that unidentified foreign planes violated its air space six times as the country kicked off its biggest ever air defense drill but that the intruders were intercepted and forced back by […] […]

PARIS—Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says he won’t sign off on a death penalty sentence against Tariq Aziz, seen by many as the international face of Saddam Hussein’s government. “I cannot sign an order of this […] […]

AFTER all the sexcapades, key members of Silvio Berlusconi’s coalition government declared yesterday that enough was enough. Four ministers loyal to Mr Berlusconi’s erstwhile ally, Gianfranco Fini, walked out of the Italian Prime Minister’s administration. […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran’s state TV says Iran’s first nuclear power plant in the southern Iranian port of Bushehr will start feeding the country’s power grid late next month. The Sunday report quotes Behzad Soltani, deputy head […] […]

ROME—Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi pledged on Saturday to put his government to a make-or-break confidence vote to see if his weakened coalition still has enough support in Parliament to survive. Berlusconi wrote to the presidents […] […]

PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev has confirmed that a Moscow double agent helped Washington crack a major Russian spy ring that sparked the worst espionage row between the two countries since the Cold War. He conceded that […] […]

UNITED NATIONS—President Barack Obama’s support for India’s bid for permanent membership on the U.N. Security Council put the spotlight on the failure of the United Nations to reform its most powerful body. Despite widespread agreement […] […]

QALQILIYA, West Bank—A mysterious blogger who set off an uproar in the Arab world by claiming he was God and hurling insults at the Prophet Muhammad is now behind bars—caught in a sting that used […] […]

UNEMPLOYED Britons will lose dole money for three years if they repeatedly refuse to apply for appropriate jobs. As part of a new deal for the unemployed, turning down jobs and refusing to do unpaid […] […]