Afghan president Hamid Karzai met US president Barack Obama and Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari today, voicing angry protest at the "unjustifiable and unacceptable" US airstrike in Farah
Gordon Brown is in Pakistan today amid expanding military operations against Taliban-controlled areas of the country, which somewhat fulfill his claim that the region is the "crucible of terrorism&
Dick Cheney today entered the political fray over the US use of torture, demanding the CIA release classified information proving the "success" of interrogation techniques, which, he claimed,
The red shirted protestors, who for three weeks caused widespread disruption and prompted a state of emergency in the name of constitutional reform, abandoned their stronghold at Government House in
Pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden yesterday seized a large British-owned container ship, the Malaspina Castle. In the past 48 hours, a Taiwanese fishing boat, a French yacht, a
Middle east envoy Tony Blair has warned that the peace process may "go backwards", joining a chorus of foreboding as Israel's new hard-line cabinet takes office.
The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith outlined plans for a comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy, Contest Two, which is intended to expand police and intelligence work. The government needs to "enlist the
Madagascar's president Marc Ravalomanana will stand down and hand power over to the military, according to BBC sources in the president's office. Soldiers and armoured vehicles
The Continuity IRA claimed responsibility for the shooting of a police officer in Craigavon in Northern Ireland, in what was the second fatal attack by dissident republican groups in the
Gaza was host to three prestigious international visitors on Sunday as pressure mounts to speed Gaza's reconstruction. Tony Blair made his first visit to the territory as international
