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UNITED NATIONS—A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries. The 192-nation General...
Allen Lane, £30 I am very pleased to write this foreword for the authorized history of the Security Service. We wanted this book to be an open history for publication, so we gave Christopher Andrew access to more than 700,000...
By James Lewis Yesterday at the United Nations, Barack Obama renounced Pax Americana, signaling an end to the United States' role as global cop. The Middle East now has the closest thing to Adolf Hitler since World War II,...
Today is the eighth anniversary of the day after 9/11. This newspaper being an artifact of modern printing, I am of course filing this column on the anniversary of the day itself. In my first column on the terror attacks,...
semtex: the scene immediately after the Shankill bombing in 1993, in which 10 people, including one of the bombers, died. Two of the victims were children; The cenotaph in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, where an IRA bomb exploded...
TABLE Current news: Palin rants about a fictitious "death panel" in the healthcare reform proposal, right wing mobs scream and threaten moderate Congressmen, and abroad, General McCrystal lets slip that the Taliban have gained...
The Empire Stops Here: A Journey Along the Frontiers of the Roman World By Philip Parker Jonathan Cape £25, 656 pages FT Bookshop price: £20 In the middle of the ancient city of Rome, the first emperor Augustus set up a “Golden...
