Politics

IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked Washington to free eight Iranians who he said were “illegally arrested and detained”. “It would not be misplaced to ask that the US government should take a humanitarian gesture […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s deputy prime minister Nick Clegg urged police Thursday to quickly investigate new claims that one of Britain’s biggest tabloids, the News of the World, illegally eavesdropped on politicians and celebrities. Clegg’s remarks came as […] […]

By:Mark Wignall Prior to the extradition of Dudus, during the JLP administration’s delaying tactics and right down to the heat of the Tivoli killings, widespread societal fear and his actual capture and extradition, much of […] […]

FORMER Cuban president Fidel Castro says he now regrets the actions leading up to the 1962 missile crisis with the United States. Asked about his recommendation at the time that the Soviet Union consider an […] […]

LONDON—“You are my 10th prime minister,” the Queen observes to Tony Blair when she meets him at Buckingham Palace on his first day in office in 1997, according to A Journey: My Political Life, Blair’s […] […]

HAVANA—Fidel Castro said Cuba’s economic model no longer works, a U.S.-based journalist reported Wednesday following interviews with the former president last week. Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the Atlantic Monthly magazine, wrote in a blog […] […]

LONDON—Police will likely interview the prime minister’s communications chief over allegations that a major British tabloid illegally eavesdropped on politicians and celebrities, a senior Scotland Yard officer said Tuesday. Assistant Commissioner John Yates told Parliament’s […] […]

ISRAELI Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who prides himself on being undiplomatic, lashed out yesterday at the peace negotiations with the Palestinians launched last week in Washington and criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for trying to […] […]

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to fend off anger from his own cabinet about his handling of renewed peace talks while also seeking a compromise over a partial extension of the freeze on […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified […] […]