Chris McGreal
JOHN Kerry’s recent statement that Washington has a team in Nigeria to help in the hunt for more than 200 abducted...
Published 13 May, 2014 06:22am
JERUSALEM, Nov 29: A group of Nobel peace prize-winners, prominent artists and activists have issued a call for an international military boycott of Israel following its assault on the Gaza Strip this month.
Published 29 Nov, 2012 11:08pm
SOME came in sorrow, some in solidarity. Many carried a niggling sense of shame. It was not that the people of Oak Creek bore responsibility for the tragedy of a white supremacist shooting dead six worshippers in a Sikh
Published 09 Aug, 2012 09:01pm
BARACK Obama’s policy of engagement with North Korea lies “in tatters” after it was effectively shot down by Pynongyang’s defiant but failed attempt to launch a long-range rocket.
Published 16 Apr, 2012 12:00am
WASHINGTON: At least they looked each other in the eye this time. But there was no escaping the sense that once again Israel’s prime minister was playing schoolmaster to the US president’s recalcitrant pupil.
Published 06 Mar, 2012 09:53pm
WASHINGTON: Israel is pressing Barack Obama for an explicit threat of military action against Iran if sanctions fail and Tehran`s nuclear programme advances beyond specified “red lines”
Published 02 Mar, 2012 08:01pm
WASHINGTON: Four US marines identified by the military as the soldiers filmed urinating on corpses in Afghanistan are likely to face a court martial after an American military commander said such actions are a “grave breach” of the laws of war.
Published 14 Jan, 2012 09:15pm
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who
Published 16 Dec, 2011 08:35pm
WASHINGTON Harvard academics and students are demanding the university rescind a plan to honour the editor-in-chief...
Published 23 Sep, 2010 12:00am
WASHINGTON The difficulties of achieving a final settlement in the Middle East were highlighted on Thursday after ...
Published 04 Sep, 2010 12:00am
WASHINGTON The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks says it plans to release a secret military video of one of the...
Published 18 Jun, 2010 12:00am
UNESCO has put on hold the award of a prize for “improving the quality of human life” that is paid for and named...
Published 18 Jun, 2010 12:00am
WASHINGTON If it`s a televised Oval Office address, it must be a crisis. Barack Obama`s talk to the nation from...
Published 17 Jun, 2010 12:00am
WASHINGTON Fidel Castro was once asked to define the difference between democracy in Cuba and the United States. “I...
Published 10 Jun, 2010 12:00am
SCIENTISTS from three American universities say that vast plumes of oil are spreading underwater from the blown-out...
Published 02 Jun, 2010 12:00am
WASHINGTON Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid...
Published 25 May, 2010 12:00am
HOUSTON Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional,...
Published 18 May, 2010 12:00am
WASHINGTON Richard Goldstone, the former international war crimes prosecutor, is being forced to meet South African...
Published 02 May, 2010 12:00am
IT has proclaimed itself the “intelligence service of the people” and plans to have more agents than the CIA. They...
Published 11 Apr, 2010 12:00am
A SECRET video showing US air crew falsely claiming to have encountered a firefight in Baghdad and then laughing at...
Published 07 Apr, 2010 12:00am
