Editorial
No excuse for drone killings
Foreign Minister Alistair Burt's admission that the Cameron government has "supported" a survey of attitudes to US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas amounts to a tacit admission of British involvement.
Features
The Nigel buildings rent strike
As Britain faces a new housing crisis we can learn from an occasion when tenants banded together to beat their landlord - and won new council housing
The truth about universal credit
Iain Duncan Smith's brainchild came into force at the end of last month. It's bad news for almost everyone
World
Srebrenica civil suit exposes failure by UN
Friday 13 May 2005
THE first witness in a civil suit brought by two families of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia testified yesterday that Dutch troops protecting a UN "safe area" felt "frustrated and powerless" against overwhelming Serb forces who seized control.
The world in briefs
Friday 13 May 2005
Brief news from across the world.
US troops fire on Afghan rally
Thursday 12 May 2005
AFGHAN police and US troops opened fire yesterday on Afghan students protesting against the alleged desecration of the Koran by US military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, killing four and wounding 71.
UN lambasts West over aid injustice
Thursday 12 May 2005
WESTERN nations are discriminating against Africa on desperately needed aid, resulting in many thousands of needless deaths, UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland warned on Tuesday.
Nepal keeps up pressure on autocrat
Thursday 12 May 2005
NEPAL'S political parties demanded yesterday that King Gyanendra release all political prisoners after he freed four politicians in a bid to appease the international community.
Islanders near US mine face health disaster
Thursday 12 May 2005
INDONESIAN government health tests show that traces of arsenic, antimony and mercury in villagers living close to a US-owned gold mine on Sulawesi Island are up to 2,500 times higher than those living far from the facility, according to a survey that was released yesterday.
Greek workers stage national strike
Thursday 12 May 2005
VISITORS were stranded at airports and ports across Greece yesterday as trade unions staged a 24-hour national strike to compensate for the May Day holiday which fell on a Sunday this year.
Castro backs fugitive civil rights activist
Thursday 12 May 2005
CUBAN President Fidel Castro (pictured) defended US fugitive and civil rights activist Assata Shakur on Tuesday, saying that she is innocent and a victim of politically motivated persecution.
Bush avoids Georgia grenade attack
Thursday 12 May 2005
GEORGIA'S security chief said yesterday that an inactive grenade had been found near the site where US President George W Bush made a speech in Tbilisi.
FBI papers reveal Posada CIA links
Thursday 12 May 2005
DECLASSIFIED FBI documents that were made public on Tuesday link Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who is seeking US asylum, to a plot to bomb a Cuban airliner in 1976 and indicate that he was on the CIA payroll for years.