Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, pictured through the heavily tinted windows of a police vehicle as he arrives at Westminster magistrates court in London, on 14 December 2010. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, pictured through the heavily tinted windows of a police vehicle as he arrives at Westminster magistrates court in London, on 14 December 2010. Photog
Richard Holbrooke, who has died aged 69 after suffering a ruptured aorta, was not the most universally beloved, but was certainly one of the ablest, the most admired and the most effective of American diplomats. He is one of the few of that profession in the past 40 years who can be compared with the giants of the "founding generation" of American hegemony, such as Dean Acheson and George Kennan.
In a scenario that seems like it could have been written as a bad comedy sketch, a Japanese discount chain recently recalled a "Hitler costume" from its shelves after complaints from an American Jewish group. Such a move is reminiscent of the clever Mitchell and Webb skit where two vaingloriously unaware Nazi SS soldiers are chatting and one suddenly remarks to the other: "Uh, Hans … I have just n
Japan is expected to adopt a more "dynamic" forward-leaning military posture, involving sophisticated new weaponry, mobile rapid-response units and closer security alliances with friendly countries, as part of a sweeping strategic defence review focused on real or potential threats from China and North Korea. Although the shift towards a more assertive military stance has been under discussion in
Longtime U.S. diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke, whose relentless prodding and deft maneuvering yielded the 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended the war in Bosnia - a success he hoped to repeat as President Obama's chief envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan - died Monday in Washington of complications from surgery to repair a torn aorta. He was 69. A foreign policy adviser to four Democratic presidents,
Richard C. Holbrooke in Kabul, Afghanistan, in November 2009.Credit...Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2009 and a diplomatic troubleshooter who worked for every Democratic president since the late 1960s and oversaw the negotiations that ended the war in Bosnia, died Monday evening in Washington.
Britain is now more Thatcherite than when Margaret Thatcher was in power, with people much less supportive of the welfare state and the redistribution of wealth than in the 1980s, according to an authoritative study of the country's mood. New Labour oversaw the biggest recorded shift to the right in public attitudes on those measures, despite a surge in concern about the scale of the wealth gap be
At least two people were killed after around 5,000 far-right football fans and nationalists gathered at a rally outside Red Square at the weekend, calling for the death of Russia's immigrant population. The demonstrators, who were marking the death last week of Spartak Moscow fan Yegor Sviridov, who was shot during a brawl with several men from the Caucasus, flashed the Nazi salute, chanted "Russi
Mr Mottaki, who is currently in Senegal on an official visit, was appointed foreign minister in 2005 Iran's president has fired Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in part of a perceived power struggle in Tehran. Initial reports gave no reason for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's decision. There had been no indication that Mr Mottaki - who was sacked while on an official tour of Africa - was about to lose hi
Wednesday, 01 June 2005, 08:39 C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 05 DUBLIN 000657 SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 05/31/2015 TAGS PREL, PGOV, PTER, PINS, EI, UK, NIPP SUBJECT: NORTHERN IRELAND: GOI WAITING FOR IRA RESPONSE AND COMMITTED TO GFA REF: LONDON 4254 Classified By: Ambassador James C. Kenny for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) ------- SUMMARY ------- 1. (C) During Special Envoy Mitchell Reiss' visit to
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