Politics

BEIRUT—Lebanon’s Parliament passed a law Tuesday allowing the country’s Palestinian refugees the right to work in the same professions as other foreigners, lifting a ban that has relegated the refugees to only the most menial […] […]

IT began with shock and awe 7 1/2 years ago when almost 250,000 US soldiers swarmed across the Kuwaiti border to topple Saddam Hussein. Yesterday, the last combat troops were crossing the same border, leaving […] […]

TONY Blair went ahead with the midnight opening ceremony of London’s Millennium Dome despite a bomb alert threatening him and the Queen. The risk from an explosive device, allegedly in a tunnel under the dome, […] […]

IRAN will fire up its first nuclear power plant next week in defiance of international pressure, marking an advance in its nuclear ambitions. Russia, which built the Bushehr plant in Iran, confirmed that it would […] […]

STOCKHOLM—WikiLeaks will soon publish its remaining 15,000 Afghan war documents, despite warnings from the U.S. government, the organization’s founder said Saturday. The Pentagon has said that secret information will be even more damaging to security […] […]

ABOUT 300 Muslim gravestones destroyed by Israeli bulldozers in a Jerusalem cemetery earlier this week were “fake”, the city council declared yesterday. The council said they were set up in an attempt to snatch government […] […]

JAPAN has bowed to global pressure to end the parental abductions of children from broken international marriages. Japan is the only major industrial nation that has not signed the 1980 Hague Convention that requires the […] […]

WIKILEAKS will publish the last batch of secret documents on the Afghan war in “a couple of weeks”, the whistleblower website’s founder Julian Assange said Saturday. Asked at a press conference in Stockholm when the […] […]

TENSIONS between China and the US are escalating after Washington-backed military exercises in Asian waters and territorial disputes. The disputes are between Beijing and Southeast Asian neighbours. China is furious at the prospect of further […] […]

He has been called the “Beast of Baltinglass” and described as the biggest single threat to the lives and safety of young women in the Republic of Ireland. Larry Murphy, a convicted rapist and attempted […] […]