There’s nothing fancy about being a spy – in fact, one intelligence document warns that candidates should not be recruited if their motive is glamour.
SA’s intelligence service relied on a spy close to Russia to find out details about its own government’s involvement in a $100-million satellite deal.
Republican senators have opened the way for a new showdown with United States President Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney has raised Republican hopes of an election comeback with a spirited and aggressive performance in the first televised presidential debate.
Mitt Romney’s battered presidential bid has been hit by a secretly recorded video in which he sets out views on the Israel-Palestine issue.
President Barack Obama is likely to press German Chancellor Angela Merkel to support a growth package to bail out Europe at the G8 summit this weekend
The brutal contest for the Republican nomination hints at deeper divisions among US conservatives.
Mitt Romney’s rivals for the Republican ticket have ripped into the presidential candidate on live TV in a desperate bid to cut his massive poll lead.
Republican presidential hopefuls will go head to head for the first time at Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses in the fight for the GOP ticket to take on Obama.
Mitt Romney’s bid for the Republican presidential ticket boosted as the head of rival Michelle Bachmann’s Iowa campaign walks out on her.
Obama lost no time in making political capital from Bin Laden’s death scheduling a high-profile appearance at New York’s Ground Zero.
Republicans will fight the president’s reforms
now they have a stronger hold on Congress.
The Republicans plan to hold a congressional inquiry into WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
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/ 6 December 2010
WikiLeaks founder faces growing legal problems around the world. The US announced that it’s investigating whether he violated its espionage laws.
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/ 27 September 2010
One in seven Americans now live on or below the poverty line, according to figures published recently by the United States Census Bureau.
The United States’ focus is shifting away from Cold War weapons strategy — but Iran and North Korea could still be targeted.
The Obama administration says the US’s financial system runs the risk of collapse, write Andrew Clark and Ewen MacAskill.
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/ 3 February 2009
Private cars are thought to account for about a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions in America.
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/ 11 October 2008
John McCain’s election campaign on Friday night suffered the body blow for which Republicans had been bracing themselves.
The UN security council has called on Iran to curb uranium enrichment and reprocessing on the grounds that they could be used to make a bomb.
Neither man has secured his party’s nomination, but Barack Obama and John McCain have begun to lay down the battle lines for a possible confrontation in November’s presidential election. McCain, all but certain to lead the Republican ticket, is starting to plot election strategy, aides say.
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/ 10 December 2007
Rick Wilkie, one of hundreds of volunteers canvassing for Barack Obama, recalls JFK’s inauguration speech with reverence. Wilkie, now 67, tramped kilometres through the thick snow in January 1961 to hear Kennedy. "On the way home, I was walking three feet off the ground," Wilkie said. Since that day, he has had no involvement in politics — until now.
University authorities in Colorado are to decide the fate of a student editor who published a huge "Fuck Bush" headline. David McSwane (20) is facing the sack over an incident that has grown from a campus row into a national debate about free speech. The board of student communications will decide at the hearing whether he violated the paper’s ethics code that states that "profane and vulgar words are not acceptable for opinion writing".
The CIA, faced with the impossibility of infiltrating white Americans into radical groups in the Middle East, is recruiting Arab-speaking Sudanese citizens, in spite of sanctions against the country over the killings in Darfur, it emerged this week. Sudanese recruits have been providing information about individuals passing through Sudan to Somalia and elsewhere in the the Horn of Africa and Iraq.
When George W Bush appeared at the White House correspondents’ dinner last year beside an impersonator, everyone other than those at the front tables had trouble telling who was who. A new cartoon that debuted on Wednesday night on the American cable channel Comedy Central could pose the same dilemma.
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/ 18 January 2007
Hillary Clinton risked being outflanked in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination this week when she softened her position on the Iraq war but failed to go far enough to satisfy anti-war critics. Clinton, who voted for the war in 2002 and has so far refused to renounce that, took to television and radio studios for a media blitz on Wednesday morning to set out a revised position.
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/ 14 September 2005
Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General, recently described the findings of the investigation into the Iraq oil-for-food scandal as "painful" and "embarrassing" and underlined an urgent need for reform of the world organisation. Annan accepted personal responsibility, but made it clear he was not going to resign.
The United Nations Security Council last week finally agreed to an overhaul of sanctions that were imposed against Iraq 11 years ago at the end of the Gulf War, replacing a blanket ban on a whole range of goods with "smart" sanctions.
A TRAGIC new twist was added to the Middle East conflict when three 14-year-old Palestinian classmates were buried in Gaza this week after mounting a futile attack that ended with them being shot by Israeli soldiers
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/ 12 January 2001
Support is growing for the people’s general and Yasser Arafat’s potential successor.