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David Miliband says UK needs more time to shore up Afghan government The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give the...
Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world war The friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student...
An elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years have pleaded guilty, with the husband agreeing to serve a life sentence, the US Justice Department said. Walter Myers, 72, a former State Department official...
Originally published on 21 November 1945 NUREMBERG, NOVEMBER 20. When Lord Justice Lawrence, British President of the International Tribunal, opened the great Nuremberg war trial this morning he called it unique in the history...
What chance has the Milosevic trial got of achieving political justice? Shane Brighton reviews the precedents of war crimes trials since Napoleon, and shows how the mechanisms of the courts reflect the changing nature of...
Up on Diamond Hill, the British Second World War pillbox looks like one of Enver Hoxha's frontier bunkers, a dome of pre-stressed concrete with rectangular gun slits, the last remnant of Britain's imperial disaster in Hong...
Nov 21 2009 by Gareth Evans, Western Mail MELISSA JOHN has bought a Victoria Cross awarded to a World War Two pilot for a record-breaking, six-figure sum in memory of her late brother. The 44-year-old yesterday revealed how she...
Dr. Uddipan Mukherjee The Operation Rah-i-Nijat has completed its first month. The battle seems to be long drawn as the Pakistani Taliban has declared to engage the military in guerrilla warfare. From north to south, FATA is...
IN A DUSTY VILLAGE NEAR KABUL, BRIAN READE MEETS THE HUMAN SIDE OF THE CONFLICT Life is tough here - it shows in people's faces. In the village of Danishmand, 10 miles outside Kabul, the Afghanis speak of their hopes. In this...
Sri Lanka to release remaining 136,000 Tamil war refugees after 6 months in detainment camps By ERANGA JAYAWARDENA Associated Press Writer MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka November 21, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment U.N....
