Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signalled that Moscow might be prepared to soften its opposition to sanctions against Iran over its nuclear plans. Mr Medvedev, speaking after talks with US President Barack Obama, said that in some cases sanctions were “inevitable”. Earlier, a Russian official said Moscow could support fresh sanctions if there was enough [...]
Libya’s president has attacked the permanent members of the United Nations’ Security Council during his first ever address to the UN General Assembly. In a one-and-a-half hour speech in New York on Wednesday, Muammar Gaddafi said the veto-wielding nations of the Security Council were ignoring the views of the full 192 members of the General Assembly and [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to take urgent steps to unblock the Middle East peace process. The three-way talks, held on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, yielded no signs of a breakthrough beyond a handshake between Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime [...]
By Philip Mwakio, Linah Benyawa and Patrick Beja The Standard: Chief Kadhi Sheikh Hammad Kassim has hailed organisers of the annual Idd baraza for uniting Muslims. Speaking when he presided over this year’s event, which brings together leaders after the holy month of Ramadhan, the Chief Kadhi said the function offers an opportunity for Muslims [...]
More than 100 people have been killed in clashes in the Jonglei state in southern Sudan, officials have said. The extent of the clashes, which erupted one day earlier when fighters from the Lou Nuer tribe raided a rival village, emerged on Monday after officials reached the remote settlement. Kuol Diem Kuol, a spokesman for the South’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army [...]
An Iraqi man who claimed to have worked as a bodyguard for Saddam Hussein is to be deported from Sweden despite findings by the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) that his life is at risk if he returns to Iraq. The government decided to deport the 45-year-old man because the Swedish security service Säpo judges the [...]
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denied Western claims that Iran intends to develop nuclear arms. His comments come days after the US said it was modifying its plans for defences against Iranian missiles and shelving a long-range missile shield. Western powers believe Iran is developing nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian [...]
DENVER – The FBI arrested a 24-year-old Colorado man on charges of making false statements to federal agents in an ongoing terror investigation, and supporting documents contend the man admitted receiving weapons and explosives training from al-Qaida in Pakistan. Najibullah Zazi of the Denver suburb of Aurora was arrested late Saturday after undergoing three days [...]
The White House has announced that the US president will host three-way talks with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Tuesday. Barack Obama is due to meet Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, separately before the three go into a joint session, the White House said. The meeting is expected to take place in New York before a session of [...]
George Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East, has returned to Washington after failing to secure a compromise deal for renewed peace talks bewteen Israel and the Palestinians. Mitchell had hoped to reach a deal on a settlement freeze that would allow the two sides to meet on the sidelines of the UN [...]