Politics

Coalition plans to relocate the unemployed to areas of the country where there are jobs have been condemned as “disgraceful”. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said he wanted to tackle “ghettos of poverty” […] […]

CIA chief Leon Panetta said Sunday he thinks Iran has enough low-enriched uranium to make two weapons, and that it would take at least two years to prepare the bombs and a delivery system. “We […] […]

BLACK-clad demonstrators broke off from a crowd of peaceful protesters at the World Summit, torching a police cruiser in the financial district and smashing windows with baseball bats and hammers. Police with shields and clubs […] […]

ONE OF the two sniffer dogs now prowling through Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, is just back from the Middle East – Iraq to be precise – to help the Jamaican police in their quest to […] […]

After failing to resolve their differences on economic strategy, world leaders are now tackling some of the globe’s toughest foreign policy problems. American President Barack Obama and other leaders of the Group of Eight major […] […]

Lawyers say law’s creation is reminiscent of a ‘police state’ The first protestor arrested under the “secret law” that gives police the right to apprehend anyone near the G20 security zone who refuses to identify […] […]

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt—Several thousand Egyptians, joined by top opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, protested on Friday what they call authorities’ systematic use of torture in the largest demonstration yet sparked by the alleged beating death of a […] […]

Canada will promise $1.1 billion in new spending over five years for maternal and child health programs in poor countries, bringing total spending to almost $3 billion, a pledge sources say will extend beyond a […] […]

They called it the “Death Star” because according to one source who worked inside it, “you could just reach out with a finger and eliminate” somebody. On the walls were television screens, known by the […] […]

A SWEEPING package of tough new energy and financial sanctions on Iran has been passed by the US Congress. The unilateral sanctions, aimed at forcing Tehran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program, have been […] […]