World Politics

Iran test-fires new missile as sanctions loom

Thursday, 17 December 2009

Gordon Brown condemns weapon that puts Israel within easy range

Climate conference: 'Make bankers pay for deal'

Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Britain and France back tax on financial transactions to support poor countries while Ethiopian plan would also impose levies on airline and shipping industries

Miliband snubbed by US over prisoner's release

Saturday, 12 December 2009

Attempt to secure freedom for last Briton in Guantanamo Bay is rejected

Antarctic nations plan tough new shipping controls

Saturday, 12 December 2009

Countries that manage Antarctica plan to impose tough new controls on ships visiting the southern oceans and the fuels they use to reduce the threat of human and environmental disasters posed by increasing numbers of tourists, officials said today.

When war is just – by Obama the peace prize winner

Friday, 11 December 2009

US President's Nobel speech forecasts more bloodshed to come in Afghanistan

Obama 'doesn't deserve' peace prize

Thursday, 10 December 2009

President Barack Obama will accept this year's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo this morning, tackling head-on the paradox in his receiving the accolade just 10 days after committing an additional 30,000 US troops to the war in Afghanistan.

UN warns of rising tensions as refugees flood into cities

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Mass movement to urban centres is huge problem for developing countries, says UN

Debategraph: Copenhagen - what's happening?

Monday, 7 December 2009

The world is winning the landmine war

Sunday, 6 December 2009

David Randall: The fight to clear landmines gets little coverage, but it is changing millions of lives.

Who said the special relationship was dead?

Saturday, 5 December 2009

George W. Bush and Tony Blair were "shoulder to shoulder" – but with David Miliband and Hillary Clinton, it is more a case of "eye to eye", as the world can see from these pictures taken yesterday as Nato foreign ministers convened in Brussels.