The United States' highest ranking military officer has given the most explicit assessment yet of Washington's options to stem the bloody conflict in Syria. But the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, GeneralMartin Dempsey, warned that any military intervention would be costly and uncertain. And he said that once the US took action, deeper involvement would be hard to avoid. General Dempsey assessed...
Cornell West, on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, reiterated his criticism that President Obama is a "war criminal" for killing innocent people through drone strikes. He went on to make a simple, but rarely heard observation, that, if you "have an empire, you’re going to have war...
It has become a depressing ritual of Australian politics that as an election approaches the two major parties compete with each other for the crudest, harshest policy on asylum seekers. The government's recently announced approach - that no one arriving by boat, regardless of origins or...
Military-style assaults on Abu Ghraib and Taji prisons come as Sunni Muslim militants regain momentum in insurgency Mourners pray over the coffin of a victim killed during the assault on Taji prison. Iraqi authorities said that raid failed to free any inmates. Photograph: Stringer/Iraq/Reuters...
The royal baby and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are said to be "doing well" amid hopes that the world will get its first glimpse of the future king later today. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_10196561 11:11AM BST 23 Jul 2013 Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to the future king Both the Duke and the...
A fresh wave of clashes between opponents and supporters of deposed Egyptian presidentMohammed Morsi in central Cairo overnight Monday has left at least six people dead, as Islamists vow to continue protests until he is reinstated. By NewsWires (text) Clashes between supporters and...
In October 1992, Cairo was struck by a devastating earthquake, in which nearly 600 people were killed and several thousand injured. Within hours, members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups were out on the streets, clearing the rubble and providing food, blankets and tents to the...
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's president has pardoned at least 70 more political prisoners, just days after promising to free all who remain jailed by the end of the year. The release of political detainees in Myanmar has been a key concern of the United States and other Western nations. Around 200...
Seoul: Fresh satellite images confirm that North Korea has halted construction at a facility to launch a new generation of long-range rockets, a US research institute said on Tuesday. The building of a new launch pad, missile assembly building and launch control centre at the Tonghae Satellite...
