Politics

BARACK Obama chose a new top White House aide overnight and challenged newly empowered Republicans to raise the US debt limit, as his foes vowed again to repeal his health care overhaul. Obama picked William […] […]

NOGALES, Arizona — Of the 50 or so women bused to this border town on a recent morning to be deported back to Mexico, Inez Vasquez, eight months pregnant, stood out. “All I want is […] […]

STUNG by criticism he is aloof and out of touch, Barack Obama has turned to the great communicator for inspiration. He has used his Christmas holiday in Hawaii to read a biography of Ronald Reagan. […] […]

LOS ANGELES—The Terminator always said he’d be back. Arnold Schwarzenegger is sifting through a stack of corporate, movie and real estate offers as the celebrity politician nears a career crossroad: On Monday, he’s out of […] […]

OSLO, Norway—When ambassadors, royalty and other VIPs take their seats in Oslo’s modernist City Hall on Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, there will be one chair left empty—for this year’s winner. Nobel laureate […] […]

IRAN’S interior government minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar tonight accused the US and Israeli intelligence services – the CIA and Mossad – of killing a prominent nuclear scientist. “Mossad and the CIA are the enemies of […] […]

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak has vowed to make North Korea “pay the price” for its “inhumane” artillery attack on a frontline island that killed four people and sparked global outrage. Lee had come under […] […]

THE British head of the armed forces says UK could begin pulling its troops out of Afghanistan in just over a year. General David Richards told the Telegraph today that there was “certainly scope for […] […]

WASHINGTON—From setback after setback in the war on terror to deep anxieties over containing Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in peaceful hands, the long-awaited WikiLeaks files show the United States as a superpower secretly struggling to maintain […] […]

THE WikiLeaks release of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables on Sunday has infuriated Washington, and at least one US lawmaker has called for the prosecution of Julian Assange, the Australian founder of the whistle-blower website. […] […]