Just Salesman: Why Cameron's speech failed to inspire
11 Oct 2009: It was the best line in the speech that would turn the politics of the decade on its head: "We can lead that new generation, we can be that new generation, we can change this party and we can change this country. But we need the courage to do it – itLabour exposes fresh Tory links to far right
11 Oct 2009: Foreign secretary David Miliband today accuses the Tories of putting Britain's relations with the world's leading powers at serious risk by allying the Conservative party to far-right European politicians with neo-Nazi and antisemitic links. Writing inPalestinians barred from Old City
10 Oct 2009: Israeli police have barred Palestinians protesting in defence of the al-Aqsa mosque compound from gaining access to Jerusalem's Old City. Friday's increased restrictions on the mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem followed a series of clashes thatConservatives excuse to impose savage cuts
08 Oct 2009: We thought the fever of this autumn was going to be swine flu, but we were wrong. It has turned out to be National Debt Hysteria. Our entire political class has taken to their beds with this fever, crying for nurse to bring cuts, cuts, cuts. The symptomsIsrael may ban Islamic Movement
08 Oct 2009: The Israeli government announced yesterday it would consider banning Israel’s Islamic Movement at the next cabinet meeting, in a significant escalation of tensions that have fuelled a fortnight of bloody clashes in Jerusalem over access to the Haram alAnalysis: Barack Obama's dilemma on Afghanistan
08 Oct 2009: Now he has vaulted from candidate to president, however, Mr Obama must grapple with the cold reality of a decision that will undoubtedly rank among the most momentous of his time in the White House. General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of Nato forcesIsrael to Build 800 More Units in Illegal Settlements
07 Oct 2009: Tel Aviv is going to construct some 800 new housing units across the occupied West Bank despite international calls for a halt to all settlement activities. "The settlers are working fast to produce as many construction starts as possible so that theseRussia and France to train Somali soldiers
07 Oct 2009: Russia and France will train Somali soldiers at the French base in Djibouti, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Wednesday. Kouchner told the parliament foreign affairs commission that he made the proposal to Russia last week during his visit to MoscowJerusalem provocations decried
07 Oct 2009: JERUSALEM/AMMAN: Arabs on Tuesday accused Israel of deliberately creating a dangerous situation in East Jerusalem, to trigger violence, justify a crackdown and tighten its grip on the disputed city. Palestinian leaders have issued dire warnings in theSomali defense minister freed in Uganda
07 Oct 2009: Ugandan authorities have released Somalia's state minister of defense, Yusuf Mohamed Siad, after he was mistakenly detained overnight in the capital Kampala. Siad's entry to Uganda by road from neighboring Kenya raised suspicions of security officials inThe Comic Genius of Netanyahu
07 Oct 2009: Knowing that Iran won't surrender its right to civil nuclear power, the schemers in Tel Aviv and Washington were bound to mount a hysterical campaign to scare the rest of the world into believing this would bring terror to our own streets. And at theSomali minister of defense held in Uganda, not kidnapped
07 Oct 2009: Uganda has confirmed that Somalia's state minister for defence is being detained at an undisclosed location in the capital. Earlier reports, citing relatives and government sources, said Sheikh Yusuf Mohammad Siad, a former warlord also known asConservatives quizzed over links to EU allies with Nazi sympathies
07 Oct 2009: The Tories came under fresh pressure for allying with two controversial European figures last night after Britain's leading Jewish body admitted it had contacted David Cameron to raise concerns over their alleged far-right views. The Board of Deputies ofEl-Baradei Says Nuclear Israel Number One Threat to Mideast: Report
06 Oct 2009: Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday that "Israel is number one threat to Middle East" with its nuclear arms, the official IRNA news agency reported. At a joint press conference with Iran's AtomicSomali minister of defense kidnapped in Uganda
06 Oct 2009: Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped Somalia's state minister for defense, Sheikh Yusuf Mohammad Siad, during a visit to the Ugandan capital Kampala. Few details were immediately available about the incident which took place on Tuesday. However, the ReutersConservative plans biggest public spending cuts for 30 years
06 Oct 2009: The shadow chancellor set out a detailed range of cuts, including a one-year pay freeze for five million public sector workers, which, he said, would save the taxpayer £23 billion over the next five years. The scale of the Tory plans to tackle theslashnews
CIA accused of ordering kidnap of former Pakistani spy
The wife of Khalid Khawaja claims that her husband, who was once a confidante of Osama bin Laden, was taken at the request of the American intelligence service as he travelled through Pakistan's lawless tribal belt. On Monday a group calling itself the
Yemen court upholds Israel spy's death sentence
A death sentence for a Yemeni man, Bassam Abdullah al-Haidari, convicted of spying for Israel has been upheld by an appeals court. In March 2009, a state security court sentenced the 27-year-old to death after convicting him of establishing contacts with
Mosque building brings Islamophobia fears to Poland
In a sight familiar in some west European countries but new to Poland, dozens of protesters demonstrated in a Warsaw suburb last weekend against the construction of a mosque. Plans by Poland's tiny Muslim community to build a place of worship and an
Puntland president meets with Ethiopian FM
The president of Somalia's Puntland State government Dr. Abdirahman Mohammed Farole has held meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The meeting which was held in Hotel Sharaton, where Puntland