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LONDON October 16, 2009 (Reuters) - Sensitive U.S. intelligence on former Guantanamo Bay inmate Binyam Mohamed should be published, Britain's High Court ruled on Friday in a move condemned by the British government but welcomed by anti-torture campaigners.

 

October 15, 2009 (Telegraph.co.uk) - Pakistan's intelligence agency is directing Taliban attacks on Western targets in Afghanistan, Davood Moradian, a senior government official has claimed.

October 14, 2009 (BBC) - Gordon Brown says the UK will send 500 more forces personnel to Afghanistan - but only if key conditions are met.

October 14, 2009 (AFP) - Ten French soldiers killed in Afghanistan failed to realise the risks in the area because Italian officials had secretly paid the Taliban to desist from violence, a British newspaper said Thursday.

October 14, 2009 (AFP) - Israel and the Palestinians came under international pressure here Wednesday to comply with a UN report demanding "credible" domestic probes of war crimes allegedly committed during the Gaza conflict.

October 13, 2009 (Al Jazeera) - The US has failed to win Moscow's support for fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, with Russia's foreign minister saying that further sanctions would be "counter-productive".

October 13, 2009 (Press TV) - Iran's state shipping company has dismissed as 'sheer lies' Britain's accusations that the company's vessels have transported goods related to Iran's nuclear program.

Although the ink on the Lisbon Treaty hasn’t even dried yet, bureaucrats in Brussels have already begun to plot the EU’s rise as a superpower.

October 12, 2009 (Raw Story) - The British military's chain of command has instructed the country's top investigators not to examine hundreds of incidents involving Iraqi deaths and serious injury, a former British military police officer told the BBC Sunday.