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Parliaments, tech leaders and privacy activists are working to bring the surveillance complex to heel.
‘The civilian rights of the US whistle-blower, who exposed secret internet surveillance, must be respected’.
Like most heraldry, the global tour of the Olympic torch is a modern invention, stretching back no further in the mists of time than the last Games in Athens. After London, Paris…
The Casa Poporului is the unfinished work of one of Europe’s last megalomaniacs, Nicolae Ceausescu. Much of historic Bucharest was levelled to create a building that the Romanian…
Thirteen months have passed since British Prime Minister Tony Blair described Britain’s military operation in Basra as "successful" and "complete". Like United States President…
Ten months after he came barnstorming to power, Nicolas Sarkozy is in some trouble. The tactician who sapped the strength of the French left by offering right-wing socialists a…
Retired justice Eliyahu Winograd, who headed the panel investigating Israel’s 34-day war in Lebanon in 2006, said recently what everybody already knew. The ground offensive…
If you bottle up 1,5-million people in a territory 40km long and 10km wide, and turn off the lights, as Israel has done in Gaza, the bottle will burst. This is what happened on…
Gold prices soared to new records trecently, on the back of oil’s surge, helped by geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty. The oil price hit $100 a barrel in trading last…
The beauty of Russia’s political system is that you do not need an election to know the name of the next president. No primaries, no caucuses, no real campaigning and…
The beauty of Russia’s political system is that you do not need an election to know the name of the next president. No primaries, no caucuses, no real campaigning and…
After a week of uncharacteristic silence, Nicolas Sarkozy vowed there would be no going back on reforms that have triggered nationwide transport strikes. To an Ulster Unionist’s…
Polish democracy grew up on Sunday, when the country’s voters rejected the strident, xenophobic nationalism of Jaroslav Kaczynski. The election mattered not just because it was…
Bit by bit, the tensions on the Korean peninsula are easing. This week it was announced that the leaders of north and south would meet for a two-day summit, the first in seven…
Take five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor who are working in an ill-equipped hospital. Accuse them wrongly of infecting 426 children with HIV-contaminated blood. Then…
Alvaro de Soto is not the first experienced diplomat to have entered the Middle East a moderate and to have left it two years later angry at the role of Israel and the United…
When a statesman dies he gets tributes — even from those who suffered most at his hands. The news of Boris Yeltsin’s death on Monday was no sooner out than Mikhail Gorbachev, the…
The meeting this week in Jerusalem between Condoleezza Rice, Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas was the first such three-way encounter since 2003. That might suggest that the prospect…
One note on Tuesday soured the perfect cadence that greeted North Korea’s decision to shut down its main nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, and take the first step towards dismantling…
For six years, with the backing of both houses of a markedly conservative Republican Congress, George W Bush has led an American administration that has played an unprecedentedly…
