Politics

Hundreds of Russian police surrounded a central Moscow square yesterday as a prominent critic of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin led a protest concert against a road-building scheme that is becoming a focal point for demonstrations […] […]

WASHINGTON—Former President Jimmy Carter was preparing to leave for North Korea on Tuesday to try to gain the freedom of an American imprisoned for illegally entering the communist nation, U.S. officials said Monday night. North […] […]

The People’s National Party (PNP) was last night placed on election alert by its president, Portia Simpson Miller, who suggested that the Sunday Gleaner bombshell, revealing that the Jamaican Government had, in fact, been in […] […]

The Jamaican Government remains mum this afternoon, a day after a Sunday Gleaner exclusive revealed that the administration lied about the Manatt affair. The article reveals that it was the Government that hired the US […] […]

CAIRO- Iran’s President offered friendship to the United States yesterday but also taunted Washington by saying he does not fear an attack by the United States because it could not even defeat a small army […] […]

Irish republican dissident groups are targeting the British Conservative party conference this year, raising fears of a repeat of the 1984 Brighton attack that nearly killed the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Sources in Northern […] […]

IRAN has produced a high-speed bomber drone with a range of more than 600 miles, described by President Ahmadinejad as a “messenger of death”. Iran produced a dramatic response yesterday to international concern over its […] […]

The founder of the WikiLeaks website has blamed the Pentagon for a false rape charge levelled at him over the weekend. Senior US officials dismissed the allegations made by Julian Assange, the founder of the […] […]

OTTAWA—Canada turned down a direct plea from NATO to sent more troops into southern Afghanistan in the run-up to last year’s Afghan presidential election, federal documents say. It was among the most specific requests Ottawa […] […]

FORMER Harrods owner Mohamed al-Fayed has revealed he had the London store’s royal warrants taken down and burned. The Egyptian businessman said the endorsements – from the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, the late Queen Mother […] […]