Politics

Boris Johnson came under pressure today to reveal the full details of the appointment of his alleged lover to an official fundraising role. The Mayor asked art consultant Helen Macintyre, 36, to act as an […] […]

MUTARE, ZIMBABWE—Diamonds are blinding, their glitter fuelling greed and corruption and war. Farai Maguwu says he was trying to pry eyes open. For that, the human rights activist was arrested, thrown into jail for 39 […] […]

WASHINGTON: US intelligence agencies are dangerously dependent on contractors, with 30 per cent of the spy workforce potentially bound to shareholders more than the nation. Despite a ban on private hands performing “inherently government functions”, […] […]

HAVANA—Cuba has ordered a colorful Chilean businessman with deep personal ties to Fidel Castro to appear in a corruption probe or face a possible arrest warrant. The decree gives Max Marambio until July 29 to […] […]

LONDON—The judge leading the British inquiry into charges that his country’s intelligence services colluded with the torture of suspected terrorists abroad has had his impartiality compromised and must be removed, a leading human rights group […] […]

Promises to keep pressure on criminals MONTEGO BAY, St James — Prime Minister Bruce Golding says he will no longer be distracted by his critics over his handling of the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition. “I […] […]

Ontario cabinet ministers stayed silent Monday in the wake of a police raid on a provincial government office complex, despite Opposition warnings that thousands of public servants were “being tarred” with the same brush. Last […] […]

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday told the congregation of the New Testament Church of God on Water Lane in Montego Bay that the Almighty was moving Jamaica in the right […] […]

THE United States must drop its “cowboy” attitude if it wants to hold dialogue with Iran over its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. “We are for negotiations, but to do so you have to […] […]

SINGAPORE—Singaporean police said Monday they arrested a British author as part of a criminal defamation investigation related to his book on the city-state’s death penalty policy. Alan Shadrake, 75, was in Singapore to promote the […] […]