Politics

A GROUP of prominent experts has called for a full inquest into the death of British government weapons inspector David Kelly, whose apparent suicide in July 2003 caused a crisis for then prime minister Tony […] […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he wanted to get down quickly to full-scale peace talks, as he met United States envoy George Mitchell to hear the latest from the Palestinian side. Mitchell, on […] […]

PRESS freedom campaigners and the Pentagon have denounced plans by WikiLeaks to release 15,000 more classified documents on the war in Afghanistan. Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing organisation, said that his associates were […] […]

The UK’s ambassador to Tehran has responded angrily after a senior Iranian minister claimed the British were inhuman idiots led by a stupid Prime Minister. Iran’s first vice-president, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, was quoted as saying […] […]

JERUSALEM—An Israeli nuclear whistleblower who spent 18 years behind bars was released from jail Sunday after serving an additional three months for violating his release terms. Mordechai Vanunu was a technician at Israel’s top-secret nuclear […] […]

US Democrats were celebrating their revived prospects for the November mid-term elections yesterday. A string of primary results put paid to the notion of an anti-establishment mood sweeping the country. In the biggest race, in […] […]

AN Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning has confessed to being an accomplice to the murder of her husband, according to an interview aired on state television. The interview was with a woman in […] […]

JERUSALEM—Israeli military forces underestimated the threat on a Gaza-bound ship in May and did not know enough about the Turkish activists that confronted the commandos boarding the vessel, Israel’s military chief said Wednesday. Lt. Gen. […] […]

IRAN has activated equipment to enrich uranium more efficiently. The move defies the UN Security Council, the International Atomic Energy Agency says. The Vienna-based nuclear watchdog yesterday said Iran had started using a second set […] […]

LONDON—Human rights groups said Tuesday they’ve asked WikiLeaks to censor secret files on the Afghanistan war to protect civilians who’ve worked alongside the U.S. and other foreign forces from reprisals. The Afghan Independent Human Rights […] […]