Arrest Blair and claim your reward

The only question that counts is the one that the Chilcot inquiry won’t address: was the war with Iraq illegal? If the answer is yes, everything chang

Kurds celebrate Chemical’s execution

HALABJA, Iraq: Hundreds of Kurds took to the streets of the Iraqi town of Halabja on Tuesday to celebrate the execution of ‘Chemical Ali’, hanged for

Greek parliament to probe monastery scam

ATHENS: Greek lawmakers decided on Tuesday to investigate suspect land swaps between the state and a wealthy monastery in a scandal which rocked Greec

Holocaust victims honoured

WARSAW: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu honoured Holocaust victims at a war memorial in the Polish capital on Tuesday, on the eve of the 65’

Hatoyama to ‘start from scratch’ on key mly deal with Washington

TOKYO: Japan’s prime minister pledged on Monday to “start from scratch’’ in re-examining a key military deal with Washington on relocating American tr

Lankans vote for president

Two former allies who led Sri Lanka to victory in a 25-year civil war duelled at the ballot box on Tuesday after a bitter, personal campaign for the c

Priest accused of shoplifting butter!

ILLINOIS: A Roman Catholic priest was accused of shoplifting butter and a sofa cover at a Wal-Mart in southern Illinois. Police arrested 41-yea

UK, Irish leaders locked in talks

BELFAST: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Irish counterpart Brian Cowen scrambled on Tuesday to save Northern Ireland’s fragile power-shari

HK lawmakers resign in democracy push

HONG KONG: Five pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong resigned their seats on Tuesday, vowing to turn the resulting elections into a populist referendu

Google negotiating ways to keep presence in China

BEIJING: Even if Google’s stand against censorship leads it to close its search engine in China, the company still hopes to maintain other key operati

Tehran to unveil missiles during anniversary: commander

TEHRAN/BEIJING: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that Iran will not succumb to “blackmail” by world powers, just days ahead of a

French report calls for Burqa ban

A French parliament report called on Tuesday for a ban on the full Islamic veil, saying Muslim women who wear the Burqa were mounting an “unacceptable