Politics

For the second time in as many months, a senior Canadian Forces officer serving overseas has been stripped of his command for having what the military calls “an inappropriate relationship.” But this time — unlike […] […]

BRITAIN has entered a new political era that remains uncertain, but probably means less gloss and a lowering of expectations. THE coming age of austerity about to engulf Europe will have an acute intensity in […] […]

MOSCOW AND NEW YORK – Spies who had been facing years of incarceration in the United States and Russia came in from the cold yesterday as they travelled in opposite directions around the globe, 10 […] […]

BEIJING — A Chinese government-backed think tank has accused the U.S. and other Western governments of using social networking sites such as Facebook to spur political unrest and called for stepped-up scrutiny of the wildly […] […]

The Government has come under fire from voters for shielding foreign aid from massive spending cuts which will hit services in this country. Anger over the pledge was unleashed after Chancellor George Osborne launched a […] […]

BEIRUT—The Lebanese militant Hezbollah has denounced CNN’s decision to fire a Middle East editor for posting a note on Twitter expressing admiration for the country’s late top Shiite cleric. Octavia Nasr later apologized for her […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s ambassador to Lebanon angered Israelis and embarrassed officials in London after writing a blog post praising the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a staunchly anti-American cleric linked to Hezbollah. Frances Guy, who has […] […]

Ten Russian agents who infiltrated suburban America and acted as spies have been put on a plane to Moscow. The spies left New York for Moscow hours after pleading guilty to conspiracy in a Manhattan […] […]

IRAN has retreated in the face of rising international outrage and announced that a woman convicted of alleged adultery would be spared execution by stoning. The Islamic republic’s London embassy issued a terse statement stating […] […]

A POLISH judge ordered the extradition to Germany yesterday of an alleged Israeli Mossad agent over claims he was linked to the killing of the founder of Hamas. The January 20 assassination in Dubai of […] […]