Politics

CRISPIN Blunt, Britain’s Justice Minister, has announced that he was separating from his wife and that he was gay. The MP for Reigate said he was leaving Victoria, his wife of almost 20 years, to […] […]

GENEVA—A United Nations panel says Arabs, Kurds and other minorities in Iran face discrimination because of their ethnicity. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says minorities in the Islamic republic don’t enjoy […] […]

HAVANA—Fidel Castro says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent who always popped up when former President George W. Bush needed to scare the world, arguing that documents recently posted on the […] […]

PRIME Minister Bruce Golding will be having meetings across the island to explain Government’s role in the controversial Manatt, Phelps and Phillips issue, in an apparent public relations campaign to win back support. The minister […] […]

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—Looking gaunt but relieved, an American freed after nearly seven months jailed in North Korea left Pyongyang on Friday in the company of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Aijalon Gomes, 31, hugged Carter […] […]

FORMER South African President Nelson Mandela’s home was bugged during a tumultuous period for his African National Congress party, a prominent labour leader said today. Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of South African […] […]

Denies it was hired for ‘Dudus’ case DESPITE continued denials by the Bruce Golding administration, American law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips maintains that it was working directly for the Government and not the Jamaica […] […]

A WRITER who was instrumental in making the first James Bond film was himself suspected of being a spy by Britain’s MI5. Wolf Mankowitz, who helped to write the screenplay for Dr No, featuring Ursula […] […]

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez met for five hours with Fidel Castro behind closed doors on Wednesday, and state television said they discussed the former Cuban leader’s warnings about impending nuclear war. Castro has been using […] […]

TAIPEI – The United States says it will supply radar equipment to Taiwan’s Air Force, a relatively marginal item less likely to anger China than the F-16 fighter jets the island’s President urged Washington to […] […]