POLITICS

Anti-foreign nurse swoop on Peloponnese hospital explodes in violence as Roma patient's friends confront Nazis.

ILO finds working conditions in Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait and UAE deplorable.

Timbuktu residents asked to look after camel presented to French president dine out on it instead.

Looters found human remains under garage while ransacking Central African Republic president Bozize's abandoned property.

The public humiliation heaped on bank bosses who are guilty of little more than hubris represents a desire for vengeance rather than a search for the truth.

Inspired by Arab revolutions, grassroots movement may change history in secretive Africa country.

Riyadh moves to stem flow of Yemeni smugglers and illegal immigrants.

Japan readied its ballistic missile defence systems on Wednesday (April 10), as fears mounted that North Korea could be set to launch them.

Satellite images show Pyongyang launchpads ready to fire Nodong and Scud missiles, says Seoul.

Anti-EU party has record number of candidates fighting in midterm county elections.

Bernard Cazeneuve promises action on ministers and civil servants who have squirrelled away millions in hidden accounts.

Leaked report claims Germany should repay Athens €162bn in wartime reparations.

Removing Scotland's presence at Westminster might just be the greatest gift ever sent down from the north, says James Kelly.

Five radical feminist activists staged topless protest against Russian president in Germany

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces 'Iran has gone nuclear'.

Pope Tawadros II accuses Egyptian president of negligence in handling deadly sectarian clashes at St Mark's Cathedral.

Until the Tory party stops defining itself by one of its most influential leaders, it will never move on, warns Henry Hill.

Amnesty highlights growing racket of Bedouin Rashaida tribe involved in people-smuggling from Eritrean refugee camps in Sudan.

Iran said on Tuesday (April 9) it had started production at two uranium mines and a yellow cake plant, declaring that Western opposition would not slow its nuclear programme days after talks between Tehran and world powers failed to reach an accord.

Military moves three PAC-3 batteries in defensive ring around central Tokyo - and more are likely to follow.

Kenyans packed a local stadium to witness the swearing in of Uhuru Kenyatta as president on Tuesday (April 9).

The U.S. Navy said on Monday (April 8) it will deploy for the first time a laser weapon on one of its ships that could be capable of shooting down drones and disabling vessels.

WikiLeaks announced on Monday (April 8) the release of a library of approximately 1.7 million U.S. diplomatic documents from when Henry Kissinger was U.S. secretary of state during the 1970s.

While leaders such as Cameron and Obama laud Thatcher, the left blasts her neo-liberal economic policies.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday (April 9) pledged to take "every possible precaution" ahead of a possible North Korean attack, as Japan deployed Patriot missile interceptors across the country.

Marie-Arlette Carlotti published details of her properties on her blog in the wake of the financial scandal triggered by ex-budget minister Jerome Cahuzac Swiss bank account

SS-Death's Head (Totenkopf) division camp guards Hans Lipschis and Theodor Szehinskyj have been included in the related top 10 of most wanted Nazis.

Britain's iconic prime minister led an unquestioned economic revival but the costs of her sweeping reforms are still being argued today.

Russian president laughs off feminist group action at Hanover Trade Fair despite Kremlin calls to punish activists.