Politics

BUENOS AIRES – The Government moved to take over Argentina’s only newsprint maker, alleging two leading newspapers illegally conspired with dictators to control the company three decades ago and then used it to drive competing […] […]

The contest for the British Labour leadership is getting personal with David Miliband about to make his strongest criticism of his younger brother Ed as the contest reaches a critical stage. The former Foreign Secretary […] […]

FORMER Republican presidential candidate John McCain is predicting his party will regain control of both houses of congress in November’s mid-term elections. Senator McCain comfortably defeated conservative challenger J. D. Hayworth in the Republican primary […] […]

A BRITISH tourist has been locked up for 58 days in an Iranian jail for taking a photo. Andrew Barber, 43, was accused of spying because the image – meant to be of a sunrise […] […]

WASHINGTON—The darlings of the Tea Party set have rallied in Washington before. But never quite like they will Saturday, when Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin share top billing at a major conservative rally coinciding with […] […]

George Osborne’s emergency Budget hit the poorest hardest, a leading economic think-tank has said. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) concluded that the biggest losers from the measures announced by the Chancellor in June were […] […]

Phillips criticises JLP ‘silence and arrogance’ on affair JAMAICA:– MEMBER of Parliament, and former national security minister Peter Phillips said what he terms the posture of ‘silence and arrogance’ adopted by the Golding administration in […] […]

The South African Government has been accused of resorting to censorship policies reminiscent of the apartheid era in a bid to silence its critics in the media. The ruling African National Congress is pushing a […] […]

THE wife of British Prime Minister David Cameron has given birth to a baby girl, Downing Street has announced. “The Prime Minister and [Samantha] Cameron are delighted to announce the birth of their fourth child, a baby […] […]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s tough talk on Gypsies and immigrants has come in for a fierce backlash, drawing fire from the right, the left and the Catholic Church while failing to boost him in the […] […]