Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
A British opposition politician has accused the government and intelligence agencies of colluding in the torture of a British terrorism suspect whose interrogation was “outsourced” to Pakistan.
David Davis, a Conservative MP, said the government had helped set up the torture and abuse of suspect Rangzieb Ahmed at the hands of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI).
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Pope Benedict called on Tuesday for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.
The pope made his call for a re-think of the way the world economy was run in a new [...]
G8 leaders have failed to get emerging powers to agree climate change goals for 2050 and conclusions from their summit will not directly refer to a sensitive debate about the domination of the dollar.
Draft documents seen by Reuters on Wednesday ahead of the G8 summit and Thursday’s meeting of the 17-nation Major Economies Forum [...]
Italy, France and Britain called on Monday for major developing economies like China and India to sign up for a goal of halving the world’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at this week’s expanded G8 summit in Italy.
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the “extremely ambitious” goal would be the focus of the second [...]
Exit polls in Bulgaria indicate the centre-right party led by ex-body guard and Mayor of Sofia Boiko Borisov is heading for a significant victory.
His Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) looks set to take 40% of the vote – more than half that of the ruling Socialist Party.
But the BBC’s Europe correspondent says while [...]
The death toll climbed to at least 12 in a gas explosion on a freight train in western Italy, officials said Tuesday.
A child was among those killed, said Antonio Garufi, a local government official. The number of injured had risen to 36, with 16 in critical condition.
Most of the injuries were burns. Two children were [...]
Neo-Nazis in Germany are applauding the repression of protests in Iran and publishing statements supporting the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his hard-line government.
Two extremist parties, the NPD and DVU, have managed to contort their racist thinking to embrace the Iranian leader because Ahmadinejad openly advocates the elimination of Israel – and presumably has [...]
Iran has detained eight local staff at the British embassy in Tehran on accusations of having a role in post-election riots, local reports said.
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband demanded their release, saying the arrests were “quite unacceptable”.
Relations between the countries are strained after Tehran accused the UK of stoking unrest, which London denies.
Some 17 people [...]
Cristiano Ronaldo will be unveiled as a Real Madrid player on July 6, having finally agreed terms over his world-record $130 million transfer from Manchester United.
Spanish giants Real had been in talks with the 24-year-old World Player of the Year’s representatives for the past two weeks after agreeing the fee with English champions United.
The Portugal [...]
The Brazilian military said late Friday it is calling off the search for bodies of passengers and crew from the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month.
It was unlikely that any more bodies would be found, the military said.
So far, search teams have found 51 of the 228 people who died [...]
Troops willing to die to stop Iran unrest, general says
4 killed, 32 wounded as 6 Baghdad churches bombed
Wife held in boxing champ’s killing in Brazil
NASA fuels space shuttle Endeavour for launch
Two injured in Pamplona bull run, day after death
Two U.S. soldiers killed, Afghan war heats up
Cheney hid CIA program from Congress: senator