Politics

Shadow foreign secretary David Miliband has stepped up his criticism of David Cameron over Pakistan, just days before the arrival of the country’s president on an official trip to the UK. Asif Ali Zardari is […] […]

AUSTRALIAN-born Julian Assange is peddling a range of excuses for having put Afghans in harm’s way. His decision to publish thousands of documents containing uncensored US intelligence about the Afghan war is a turning point […] […]

EUROPE already has enough Islamic influence without adding Ankara. On Wednesday, The Independent newspaper announced that “(David) Cameron uses Turkish visit to launch ferocious attack on Israel”. The Guardian reported that he “likened the experience […] […]

RECENTLY, the conservative American talk-show host Glenn Beck said “Obama’s policies are the World Cup”. Which he later translated to mean: “we don’t like the World Cup, we don’t like soccer, we want nothing to […] […]

THE WikiLeaks’ damning half-truths pertain to the anti-war movement within the US. This has caused embarrassment to the US war architects and stirred the military industrial complex and its cousin, the corporate and embedded media. […] […]

DUTCH troops are leaving Afghanistan after four years, handing over control of military operations in central Oruzgan province after a political row at home forced their drawdown. A Netherlands embassy spokeswoman said a small ceremony […] […]

A military operation to oust Taliban insurgents from a stronghold in southern Afghanistan is progressing “very well”, the Ministry of Defence has said. Hundreds of British troops are taking part in Operation Tor Shezada. British […] […]

MOSCOW—Russian police arrested a leading Kremlin opponent and dozens of fellow activists Saturday at a demonstration demanding freedom of assembly. Several hundred protesters gathered in a Moscow square chanting “Freedom! Freedom!” at the rally city […] […]

Pakistan’s intelligence agency cancelled planned talks with security experts in the UK in protest at David Cameron’s claim that elements within the country were promoting the export of terror, it has been reported. The cancelled […] […]

UNCLE Sam wants you. That is the catchphrase on a recruiting poster for the US Armed Forces. It’s being used flippantly round our town these days as it has become known that America still has […] […]