A world in which Mitt Romney holds the single most powerful office may sound a very different place from that of President Barack Obama.
Mohamed Morsi’s Tehran visit, the first by an Egyptian leader since 1979, is part of plan to form a regional contact group to broker peace in Syria.
A senior commander of the Taliban has offered a pragmatic view on the futility of the war and the future of Afghanistan. Julian Borger reports.
As part of extensive war games, Iran test-fired medium-range missiles capable of hitting US bases in the region or Israel.
Without a clear action plan, Pakistan will not support the United States-driven reconciliation plans for Afghanistan.
US government in danger of missing out on historic peace settlement in Afghanistan.
The United States has agreed in principle to release high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
An already frail economy will come under more pressure when the EU ban comes into effect.
Russia has rejected EU calls for further sanctions against Iran in the wake of a UN reports that Tehran had experimented with nuclear weapon designs.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog is set to reveal alleged Iranian work on an advanced nuclear warhead — though this is not regarded as a "smoking gun".
The South African foreign ministry’s excuses for dithering over entry visa for Desmond Tutu’s birthday celebrations are paper thin.
The assassination of a close ally and mentor of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai after the killing of his powerful half-brother has raised questions
As fears about Pakistan’s nuclear security mount, the US Congress is calling for decisive action.
Obama administration sticks to its guns amid conflicting reports on Bin Laden’s death
The Obama administration recently played down a proposal to establish a no-fly zone over Libya.
Yeonpyeong island is on a maritime demarcation line that Pyongyang has refused to recognise since it was imposed in 1953.
Nuke experts fear amateurs may not be the only ones moving uranium
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/ 15 December 2008
No more them and us, with a farewell to American supremacy — China is to be biggest beneficiary of change.
The world food crisis is a tragedy frequently and passionately foretold. For years food experts warned that chronic under-investment in agriculture in developing countries, by governments and donors alike, would one day spell disaster.
President Pervez Musharraf said recently that troops would stay on the streets of Pakistan’s tense cities at least until a new election date of February 18. Parliamentary elections, intended to provide a transition to democracy after more than eight years of military rule, had been scheduled for January 8, but a controversial six-week delay was announced by the country’s election commission.
Karl Rove’s departure from the White House to spend more time with his family and to write his memoirs marks the end of the dominant political partnership of the past decade in United States politics. Rove took George W Bush under his wing when he was no more than the figurehead of a Texan baseball team, the wayward son of a political dynasty who was not expected to amount to anything.
The last good options in Iraq evaporated long ago and getting out is likely to be more complicated and bloodier than going in. Whether they go north or south, the 160 000 American troops now in Iraq would probably have to fight their way out against disparate enemies keen to claim a military victory.
The Pentagon is trying to develop "insect cyborgs" able to sniff out explosives, or "bug" conversations, by lurking unseen in enemy hideouts with micro-transmitters strapped to their bodies. Their most immediate task could be spotting and identifying the location of roadside bombs in Iraq.
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/ 31 January 2006
This week, United States President George W Bush committed the US to the defence of Israel against threats from Iran, saying he would not allow the world to be "blackmailed" by an Iranian nuclear weapon. The president’s warning, issued in an exchange with students in Kansas, came at a tense time in relations with Iran.
United States officials last week insisted they were right to raise the alert over a potential terrorist attack against a US financial target, despite the fact that much of the information that prompted the warning was years old. But amid claims of political motives in the handling of the alert and scaremongering, is the US government’s high alert justified?
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/ 13 September 2002
The Arts & Culture Trust has announced the finalists for its 2002 awards. The finalists comprise top individuals and projects that have gained a high profile and achieved success in the arts in the past year.
Thirty years after a nightwatchman stumbled on a break-in at the Watergate complex, sparking off the greatest political scandal in modern US history, the enduring mystery at the heart of the affair produced fresh media speculation.
An acrimonious rift opened between the CIA and FBI this week over which agency was more to blame for failing to prevent the September 11 attacks. An extraordinary finger-pointing battle broke through the usual wall of secrecy surrounding intelligence matters.
United States President-elect George W Bush put the Âfinishing touches to his CabiÂnet this week.