But Miliband's decision is a signal that he intends to assert his own authority on Labour's economic policy, reducing the risk of the splits that marred the Brown-Blair era. It is also shows that the Labour leader does not intend to shift dramatically from the economic plan laid out before the election by the former chancellor, Alistair Darling, who proposed to halve the budget deficit over four y
Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been named the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Making the announcement in Oslo, the head of the Norwegian Nobel committee said Mr Liu was "the foremost symbol" of the human rights struggle in China. Several countries including the US, France and Germany, called for his immediate release. China said the award could damage ties with Norway, and summoned
The most infamous mosque in Europe is a drab, nondescript place. Five minutes from Hamburg's main railway station, above a Vietnamese takeaway and the Olympic Fitness Club, the grimy quarters of the Taiba prayer hall and library occupy mythical status for the jihadists of Europe. It was here at the mosque formerly called the al-Quds that Mohammed Atta and several of his accomplices prayed and plot
'I will not to be dragged back into the past'CITY REACTION: DERRY’S MOODS are easy to read CITY REACTION:DERRY'S MOODS are easy to read. Yesterday's bomb blast, which has followed 37 other attacks including a murder in February, is giving rise to a new edginess among the city's residents. It had been a good summer. In June the Saville inquiry exonerated the 14 people shot dead on Bloody Sunday, an
A damning report into the role of private security companies in Afghanistan, including the multimillion-pound British ArmorGroup, was issued tonight by the US Senate armed services committee. Much of the focus of the report is on ArmorGroup's contract to provide security at an airbase. The report claims that the company hired Afghan warlords to provide security and that at least one was alleged to
Fifteen people were killed in a huge bomb blast at a mosque in northern Afghanistan today including its target, a provincial governor who had survived a series of assassination attempts. More than 20 people were also wounded in the explosion at the Shirkat mosque in Takhar province, said General Shah Jahan Noori, the provincial police chief. The target was the governor of neighbouring Kunduz provi
Liu Xiaobo, China's best-known dissident, has won the Nobel Peace Prize Reuters China's best-known dissident today won the prestigious Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised Liu Xiaobo for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. The ... committee has long beli
China's leading dissident has been awarded the Nobel peace prize. The Guardian's Tania Branigan reports from Beijing, where police have cordoned off Liu's wife house guardian.co.uk China's best-known dissident, Liu Xiaobo, today won the Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power. The announcement provoked a furious reaction from Chines
Moderate Muslims are being undermined by the unwillingness of the west to take on the extremists’ arguments, says Tony Blair. Photograph: Daniel Barry/EPA Moderate Muslims are being undermined by the unwillingness of the west to take on the extremists’ arguments, says Tony Blair. Photograph: Daniel Barry/EPA
Page last updated at 12:33 GMT, Thursday, 7 October 2010 13:33 UK David Cameron has claimed that a principle of fairness - defined as 'giving people what they deserve' - is at the heart of his 'big society'. Jeremy Paxman is joined by the film director Ken Loach and the former cabinet minister Lord Heseltine to debate. Broadcast on Wednesday 6 October 2010.
Quiet diplomacy, as it’s called, has served for years as the principle guiding US relations with China: the theory is that it is far better to engage the Chinese government quietly, behind the scenes, rather than through more robust public confrontation. But how effective is quiet diplomacy in practice? Two cases have made this question urgent. Quiet diplomacy, as it’s called, has served for years
Both the Afghan and US governments have recently made contact with the most fearsome insurgent group in Afghanistan, the Haqqani network, the Guardian has learned. Hamid Karzai's government held direct talks with senior members of the Haqqani clan over the summer, according to well-placed Pakistani and Arab sources. The US contacts have been indirect, through a western intermediary, but have conti
On his 79th birthday the South African cleric and Nobel peace prize-winner officially retires after decades of activism 2008: Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the London unveiling of Gilt of Cain, a sculpture by artist and poet Lemn Sissay to commemorate the 2007 bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade
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