Politics

THE German government today agreed on new draft laws against forced marriages and tough measures against immigrants who fail to integrate into society. The new laws come amid  a fierce debate about immigration in the […] […]

LONDON—Britain says the head of the country’s armed forces will step down this week and be appointed to the House of Lords. Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said Wednesday that Air Chief Marshall Jock Stirrup […] […]

Fresh details have emerged of the involvement of British forces in incidents in which Afghan civilians were killed or wounded. The Guardian, which obtained the details from the Ministry of Defence through the Freedom of […] […]

IRAQ’S former deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz – the international face of the Saddam Hussein regime – was sentenced to death last night. The death sentence followed his conviction for taking part in a Saddam-led […] […]

Leader of the Opposition, Portia Simpson-Miller continues to raise concerns about the way in which Prime Minister Bruce Golding named the members Commission of Enquiry into the extradition request for former Tivoli Gardens alleged crime […] […]

EMINENT attorney Frank Phipps, QC, is contending that the Extradition and Interception of Communication Acts are void because they were not passed with the two-thirds majority of both Houses of Parliament as stipulated by the […] […]

TONY Blair is to be recalled by the official inquiry into the Iraq war to face new questions about “gaps” in his evidence given earlier this year. The former Prime Minister is expected to be […] […]

THE policeman who is alleged to have illegally handed wiretap evidence to United States authorities in the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition affair, is an innocent man, according to former Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin. […] […]

McLEAN, Va.—A Michigan man pleaded guilty Friday to accepting $70,000 from Chinese spies as he attempted to secure jobs with the CIA and U.S. Foreign Service that would have allowed him to expose U.S. government […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s poor and powerful argued Thursday over who’ll lose out most under harsh austerity measures which will slash benefits, jobs and government services in order to reduce the country’s crippling debts. Treasury chief George Osborne […] […]