Politics

PARIS—France’s lower house of parliament overhwelmingly approved a ban on burqa-like Islamic veils Tuesday, a move that is popular among French voters despite serious concerns from Muslim groups and human rights advocates. There were 336 […] […]

BELFAST CITY, UNITED KINGDOM—Northern Ireland leaders condemned Irish nationalist rioters Tuesday who wounded 82 police officers during two nights of street clashes sparked by the province’s annual parades by the British Protestant majority. While most […] […]

AN internal Israeli inquiry has found mistakes were made at a “relatively senior” level during Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid boat. However it found the use of live fire was justified in the […] […]

HAVANA—A relaxed and lucid Fidel Castro returned to the limelight Monday after years spent largely out of public view, discussing world events in a raspy voice in his most prominent television interview since falling seriously […] […]

HAVANA—Fidel Castro is back. The aging revolutionary leader will appear Monday Cuba’s key public affairs television program, according to a front-page headline in the Communist-party newsletter Granma. It may be the most prominent appearance by […] […]

Horace Clarke, a stalwart politician and former government minister, died Saturday at the Andrews Memorial Hospital in St Andrew. He was 75 years-old. Dr Morais Guy, who succeeded Clarke as member of parliament for Central […] […]

ONCE the pride of the Soviet Union, Russian’s foreign intelligence has suffered a serious blow with the US spy scandal. Seasoned ex-KGB spooks have queued up to denounce the apparent amateurism of the 10 Kremlin […] […]

Prime Minister David Cameron has been urged to re-think plans for a referendum at the same time as elections to devolved administrations. Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond spelled out his anger in a letter to […] […]

GOVERNMENT and Opposition members, upset with Contractor General Greg Christie over his fearless efforts to root out corruption, will be hard-pressed to find resistance to his work among private sector interests, who have hailed him […] […]

INTENSE diplomatic efforts by Israel involving Greece, Egypt and Moldova have prevented a Libyan aid ship from trying to breach the blockaded Gaza Strip. The agent of the Amalthea cargo ship told AFP in Athens […] […]