| British ex-PM Blair faces Iraq inquiry next year The order to send 45,000 British troops to take part in the 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein has always been controversial and led to massive anti-war protests in London. During ...[more] |
| Labour set to hold seat in Scottish stronghold The vote in the Glasgow North East constituency, one of the most socially deprived in the country, comes after parliament speaker Michael Martin stood down earlier this year following critici ...[more] |
| Abbas to accept Palestinian election delay: officials The Central Election Commission said it had advised Abbas to put off the election since the rival Hamas Islamist group ruling some 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had warned it wou ...[more] |
| WITNESS: Afghan night mission ends in bullets By Deborah Gembara BABO KHEYL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - It's just after midnight and I am in the back of a helicopter, jammed in with two soldiers on either side. We are in darkness, s ...[more] |
| Medvedev pitches modern Russia, warns opposition Medvedev spent much of his 100-minute state of the nation speech bewailing the state of Russia's economy which the Kremlin chief said was chronically obsolete and mired in corruption. [more] |
| Aid freeze in post-coup Honduras hurting poor Soup kitchens have closed, medicines have become scarce, foreign doctors have canceled trips to Honduras and funding for the poor to run small businesses have dried up, increasing unemploymen ...[more] |
| Food summit to make little headway in war on hunger With more than one billion people going hungry, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization had called the November 16-18 summit in Rome hoping to win a clear pledge by world leaders to spend ...[more] |
| Nigerian football star sentenced to 40 lashes in Sudan Stephen Worgu, who signed a reported multi-million dollar contact with Omdurman club Al Merreikh last year, said he was innocent and determined to win an appeal against the sentence. ...[more] |
| Russian opposition slates Medvedev election reforms In his annual state of the nation address, Medvedev listed ten reforms aimed at breaking the domination of pro-Kremlin United Russia which has dominated politics in Russia since the presidenc ...[more] |
| South Africa white police allege discrimination The Solidarity union has filed applications in the Labor Court in Johannesburg contesting appointment and promotion policies in the police force and prison service saying whites are suffering ...[more] |
| Ex-French minister links Chirac to arms scandal Pasqua was given a three year sentence, including one year in jail with the rest suspended, and fined 100,000 euros ($150,000) for taking cash and for his role in arranging the sale of weapon ...[more] |