Politics

THOUSANDS of demonstrators have rallied in London against harsh austerity measures being unveiled by the British government this week in a bid to pay off a huge deficit. Union members and protesters waved placards overnight […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — Airstrikes on Taliban insurgents have risen sharply here over the past four months, the latest piece in what appears to be a coordinated effort by U.S. commanders to bleed the insurgency and […] […]

Jamaica: PM yields to pressure for commission of enquiry into ‘Dudus’ affair THE Government yesterday yielded to the politically costly battering over its handling of the Christopher Coke/Manatt, Phelps and Phillips episode, saying yes to […] […]

THE Indian Foreign Office has summoned the Australian High Commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, over racist emails circulated by Victorian police officers. It was reported yesterday that a racist email showing the electrocution of an […] […]

The largest council in the country will no longer provide housing to asylum seekers, saying it needs to put local people first. Birmingham City Council said it would not be extending its five-year contract with […] […]

ISRAELI concerns that Lebanon’s militant Shia Hezbollah has acquired Scud ballistic missiles have intensified with the release of updated satellite images on Google Earth showing what appears to be a training session at a secret […] […]

PARIS—France’s constitutional watchdog on Thursday endorsed a divisive law forbidding face-covering Islamic veils anywhere in public, but expressed concern about applying it in places of worship such as a mosque. The decision of the Constitutional […] […]

One of America’s richest and most well-known men may make a run for the White House, the Telegraph reports. Donald Trump has reportedly been tempted to spend a hefty portion of his estimated US$2 billion […] […]

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has criticised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s assertion that the US government was behind the 9/11 terror attacks as “offensive” and “hateful,” even as Ahmadinejad continued to defend his remarks. “Well, it was […] […]