Politics

DUBLIN: Ireland will expel an Israeli diplomat in punishment for Mossad’s use of forged Irish passports to assassinate a top Hamas official in Dubai. The Irish move, announced last night, follows the expulsion by Australia […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—The hardline spiritual mentor of Iran’s president has made a rare public call for producing the “special weapons” that are a monopoly of a few nations—a veiled reference to nuclear arms. The Associated Press […] […]

By Gwynne Dyer US efforts to punish Iran are unjustified and will have no meaningful impact, says Gwynne Dyer. The mountain laboured for a year and a half, and finally gave birth to a mouse. […] […]

Peace protesters went to the High Court on Monday to hear a judge deal with a “collision of rights” over Parliament Square. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, wants to evict the residents of “Democracy […] […]

Jamaica has retained its Tier- 2 status in the 2010 US State Department Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP). Jamaica’s position at Tier- 2 remains the same as it was when the US released its report […] […]

JERUSALEM—Israel’s Cabinet on Monday approved an investigation into the navy’s deadly raid on a flotilla carrying pro-Palestinian activists bound for blockaded Gaza that will include two respected foreign observers in a step aimed at countering […] […]

PUBLIC OPINION , reinforced by scientific polls, has indicated that the credibility of the Golding administration has been severely dented in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips controversy. Sixty-seven per cent of respondents in a recent […] […]

THE Palestinian Authority and Egypt oppose lifting Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip but both call for easing the overland flow of goods to Gaza’s 1.5 million residents. PA President Mahmoud Abbas made his […] […]

BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN—Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek homes and cafes and slaughtered Uzbek villagers Sunday in the worst ethnic rioting this Central Asian nation has seen in 20 years. More than 75,000 Uzbeks fled across the border […] […]

WORLD powers have been “naive” in imposing new UN sanctions on Iran that will only end up hurting them, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on his return to Tehran from an overseas trip. “The bullying powers […] […]