Meanwhile, Williams' family last night hit out at rumours that suggested the dead man was involved in risky sexual practices. In a statement, they said speculation linking the secret service employee to a male escort and bondage equipment had been "very distressing". The mathematics genius, who was on secondment to MI6, was found dead in a sports holdall in the bath of his government flat on Monda
Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in Mary Dejevsky: Sell Ulster, and earn a peace bonusWhich government of the Irish Republic has not longed to go down in history as the one that brought the Emerald Isle back together?
Earlier this month I noted the number of people who had suggested to the Treasury that Northern Ireland should be given away as a money saving measure. In today's Independent the columnist Mary Dejevsky follows suit, arguing that wiping out the £9 billion annual subsidy "would make a nice dent in the UK's £900bn national debt within 30 years". In her smooth prose, Mary manages to make the proposed
The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has criticised American plans to start withdrawing troops from the country next summer, saying that naming the date has given the Taliban insurgency "a morale boost". His remarks echoed claims earlier in the week by the head of the US Marine Corps that plans to begin drawing down forces in Afghanistan from July were invigorating insurgents. General James Conway
【ワシントン草野和彦】イラク戦争開戦時(03年3月)の米国務長官のコリン・パウエル氏(73)が、毎日新聞の電話でのインタビューに応じた。元長官は「戦争は避けることができた」と述べ、旧フセイン政権の大量破壊兵器(WMD)の存在に関する情報が間違っていたことを「極めて残念だ」と強調した。イラク戦争を巡り、ブッシュ前政権の高官が戦争が回避できたと踏み込んで発言するのは極めて異例だ。パウエル氏は、今月末にイラク駐留米軍が戦闘任務を終了させるのにあわせ、毎日新聞のインタビューに応じた。 国連安保理は02年11月、イラクにWMDの査察受け入れを求める決議を採択。元長官は03年2月に国連安保理で、WMD開発継続などの「新証拠」を提示し、米国は決議違反を根拠に開戦した。だが米情報機関の判断は05年、ほぼ完全に誤りと分かった。 元長官は、事前にWMDがないと判明していれば「個人的な見解として、米国は戦争をし
A triumphant day meant to mark Kenya's "second birth" has been tarnished after its government was reported to the UN security council for hosting and refusing to arrest Sudan's fugitive president, Omar al-Bashir, in defiance of its legal obligations. Bashir, who is accused by the international criminal court (ICC) of genocide and war crimes allegedly committed in Darfur, was a guest at the signing
Williams, 30, worked at GCHQ, the eavesdropping and security centre, was days from completing a year-long secondment at MI6 and, it has emerged, was a regular visitor to the US national security agency that intercepts and analyses foreign communications. However, reports that police had found evidence linking him to a male escort and that bondage equipment was found at his flat were challenged by
The trap door is outlined in red in an execution chamber at the Tokyo Detention Center.Credit...Kyodo/Reuters TOKYO � The Japanese government opened up its execution chambers to the public for the first time on Friday, taking journalists on a tour of Tokyo’s main gallows. The insides were stark: a trapdoor, a Buddha statue and a ring for the noose. The opening of the chambers was a bid by Japan’s
A UN committee has urged France to avoid collective deportations of Roma (Gypsies) to Romania. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also said it was concerned about "discriminatory" political speeches in France. The French government said it was "scrupulously respecting European law" and helping deported Roma reintegrate.
More than one million Rwandans fled into DR Congo, then Zaire, in 1994 A draft UN report says crimes by the Rwandan army and allied rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo could be classified as genocide. The report, seen by the BBC, details the investigation into the conflict in DR Congo from 1993 to 2003. It says tens of thousands of ethnic Hutus, including women, children and the elderly, were k
Paul Bremer says "democratic rule in Iraq will not be easy, certainly no easier than it was in America" Paul Bremer was the top civil administrator in Iraq until transferring sovereignty back to the Iraqi interim government in 2004. He argues that, despite the good work done in Iraq, a continued role for US government officials in the country is vital to ensure an open, democratic nation. As Ameri
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