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The problem I’m working on today (and one of the reasons I won’t be blogging or writing a Sunday column), is how to moderate a conversation tomorrow between Rob Walker and Mark Bauerlein. Read more
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Find out what is on the agenda tonight by clicking through to our Sky.com News links page and be sure to join Martin Stanford live at 7.30. Read more
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The husband of one of the missing British women said the search was being hampered by a lack of fuel for a helicopter which had been offered from Kupang on Timor Island. Read more
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Rex Features Teen popstar Joe Jonas has admitted that he finds English girls difficult to understand. Appearing with his band the Jonas Brothers on The Nokia Green Room, the US singer said he often misunderstood English accents. When asked by Tara Palmer-Tomkinson whether he preferred English or American girls, Jonas responded: “The accents are great [...]
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The article quotes Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz as issuing an unusually blunt warning to Iran: ” If Iran continues its nuclear weapons programme, we will attack it.” Read more
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MINISTER: ISRAEL WILL ATTACK IRAN IF IT DOESN’T DROP NUKE PROGRAM Loading new images… June 6, 2008 — JERUSALEM — Israel will attack Iran if it doesn’t abandon its nuclear program, a Cabinet minister hoping to replace embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted Friday as saying. Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz also said Iranian President [...]
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California Dianne Feinstein, who has a long history of Washington mediation, offered plain water and two cozy chairs by the (unlit) fireplace at her home in Washington for the first serious post-primary talks between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Thursday evening around 9 p.m. Read more
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Since telling the truth about, well, just about anything has not been a hallmark of the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove & Co. era, what’s an inquisitive news watcher to make of a headline-making report (a news story that itself made news around the world) in yesterday’s Independent? Penned by journalist Patrick Cockburn, the article [...]
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In an instant, 18 mounds of professionally buried explosives blew apart a revered golden dome in Samarra. They also obliterated the walls, covered in hand-painted porcelain tiles, that surround the shrine and took out the entire ceiling. Fixing the mess will take time, but a team of Iraqi architects and engineers is determined to return [...]
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WASHINGTON — In recent years, a newfound — and welcome — autonomy in Latin America has been too often accompanied by the belief that the United States has little to offer the region anymore. As Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, an Argentine professor of foreign relations, noted in a newspaper column titled “Goodbye Washington,” “there is an [...]
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LONDON, June 5 — Leila Shire stood outside her central London apartment block, where a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death this week, the 11th teenager killed with a knife in London this year. Read more
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XIANG’ER, China — Undaunted by new pressure from the Chinese government, grieving parents are beginning to mount organized efforts to seek redress for the collapse of schools during last month’s earthquake. Read more
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Jazmina Bojorge arrived at Managua’s Fernando Vélez Paiz Hospital on a Tuesday evening, nearly five months pregnant and racked with fever and abdominal pain. By the following Thursday morning, both the pretty 18-year-old and the female fetus in her womb were dead. Read more
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LONDON, June 4 — For much of the world, Sen. Barack Obama‘s victory in the Democratic primaries was a moment to admire the United States at a time when the nation’s image abroad has been seriously damaged. Read more
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MEXICO CITY Darkness descends on the street corner in Colonia Doctores, a Mexico City neighborhood named for the lords of its hospitals but known best for its blocks of stolen auto parts dealers. Read more
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A mob of loyalists to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe attacked vehicles carrying U.S. and British diplomats yesterday as they were investigating political violence ahead of a presidential runoff election this month, the State Department said. Read more
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The Iraqi government may request an extension of the United Nations security mandate authorizing a U.S. military presence, due to expire in December, amid growing domestic criticism of new bilateral arrangements now being negotiated with the Bush administration, according to senior Iraqi officials. Read more
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, June 5 — Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, calmly told a U.S. military court Thursday that he wishes for a death sentence so that he can become “a martyr.” Read more
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GAZA/RAMALLAH (Reuters) – The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip welcomed on Thursday what he called a “new spirit” of dialogue from the Palestinian president but it was unclear how far the rival factions were moving to end a year-old schism. Read more
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – The accused al Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a U.S. military court on Thursday, sang a chant of praise to Allah and said he would welcome the death penalty. Read more