Archbishop Desmond Tutu criticised the United States on Sunday as an arrogant superpower bent on unilateral action, in an interview on the Iraq crisis to be telecast in Britain.
President George Bush is presiding over the most secretive administration in ‘living memory’, according to American civil rights groups and congressmen.
He is one of the most promising young pianists playing in Britain. Now he faces the threat of violent persecution after Britain refused his application for political asylum and decreed that he should return to his native Zimbabwe.
Greek Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos has lashed out at British Museum director Neil McGregor over the latter’s alleged claim that the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon should remain in London because they could never be reunited properly with the renowned Athens monument, news reports said on Saturday.
Tony Blair is to meet Palestinian leaders to press them into making widespread reforms of the Palestinian Authority as part of international efforts to kick-start the moribund Middle East peace process.
"Quiet diplomacy is the African way." Though this is a common refrain from the government, it’s not necessarily so as the African leader and statesman Julius Nyerere showed in the late Eighties.
Washington’s battle to win public support in the Arab world has begun in earnest with the first broadcasts of what officials say will become a 24-hour satellite television network aimed at changing minds throughout the region with American-style morning chat-shows, sports, news and children’s programmes.
A well-known local activist had arrived with Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy on his arm. He looked like he’d found his personal Nirvana.
Poland and the United States underlined their friendship this month by signing an agreement on the biggest military package in Europe in years – and the most substantial ever in former communist Eastern Europe.
Zimbabwean cricketers yesterday called for the World Cup matches in their country to be cancelled in protest at Robert Mugabe’s brutal regime, in a move that will redouble pressure on England to abandon their tour.