Politics

IRAN’S bid for a seat on the board of a prestigious new UN agency promoting women’s rights has been emphatically rebuffed, with Australia playing a strategic role in its defeat. Western governments and human rights […] […]

BARACK Obama has delivered a personal appeal to the Muslim world to join the West in the battle against their common enemy – al-Qa’ida and affiliated militants. Returning after 39 years to Jakarta where he […] […]

THE Pentagon was scrambling last night to discover who fired a missile off the Californian coast, 56km west of Los Angeles, without any warning. The huge rocket, heading in a northwesterly direction, roughly parallel to […] […]

A SECOND earthquake hit Indonesia last night, just hours after US President Barack Obama arrived for a brief visit as part of his nine-day tour of Asia. The magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit at 7:39pm local […] […]

THE Jamaican Government says plans by Britain to return foreigners imprisoned in that country — of which Jamaicans top the list — to their soil to complete their sentences cannot be done without legislative changes […] […]

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he has the bruises to prove Canada’s unwavering support for Israel in the face of growing anti-Israeli sentiment, an apparent reference to the country’s lost bid a seat on the […] […]

DAVID Cameron will lead Britain’s largest government delegation to China today, gambling that a promise to confront his hosts over human rights does not jeopardise the billions of dollars of trade he hopes to secure. […] […]

BORIS Johnson has infuriated PM David Cameron. ONE of the first things a foreigner notices about London is the way it throws rich and poor together, with multi-million-dollar mansions sitting beside subsidised housing for the […] […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The most potent challenge to Iran’s ruling system may not be international sanctions or the homegrown political opposition, but something as simple as a shopping list. When Sanaz, a 47-year-old Tehran mother, […] […]

PRESIDENT Barack Obama said the US cannot afford to extend tax breaks to the richest two percent of America, in his first weekly address since the midterm elections. Responding to Republican proposals that tax cuts […] […]