Politics

WIKILEAKS has unleashed a torrent of US cables detailing a wide array of potentially explosive diplomatic episodes. The cables range from a tense nuclear standoff with Pakistan to Saudi Arabia’s king repeatedly suggesting bombing Iran, […] […]

NEW evidence of nuclear co-operation between North Korea and Iran is becoming a top American concern. It has emerged that Iranian missile experts were in Pyongyang last month to attend a military parade at which […] […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE—The threat of violence in Haiti’s presidential race is growing in the wake of an alleged assassination attempt on a leading candidate and the sudden determination of many Haitians to cast ballots in an election […] […]

BEIJING—China quickened its diplomatic efforts to ease tensions between North and South Korea, calling Sunday for an emergency meeting of envoys to North Korean nuclear disarmament talks. Chinese envoy Wu Dawei said chief negotiators to […] […]

South Korea’s Defense Ministry has ordered journalists to leave the front-line island of Yeonpyeong, citing high tension with North Korea. The Defence Ministry says “the situation is not good” on the island, following the start […] […]

THE United States has rejected talks with WikiLeaks over its planned release of confidential US documents, saying the whistle-blower website was holding them in violation of US law. The US State Department set out its […] […]

WASHINGTON—U.S. diplomats and officials said they’re bracing for at least three newspapers and WikiLeaks to publish on Sunday hundreds of thousands classified State Department cables that could drastically alter U.S. relations with top allies and […] […]

JERUSALEM – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took a rare public jab at his successor yesterday, saying that Israel should agree to the United States demand to halt settlement construction in the West Bank […] […]

US allies around the world have been briefed by American diplomats about an expected release of classified US files by the WikiLeaks website that is likely to cause international embarrassment and could damage some nations’ […] […]

LONDON – British Prime Minister David Cameron launched his “happiness index” yesterday as he announced that the Government would measure people’s quality of life as well as economic growth. From April, the Office for National […] […]