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Safe advice to guide you through Colombia

26.09.11
Colombia distils the best of South America - and with the help of a good guidebook and advice from other travellers, you're very likely to stay safe... more

Women forced to sell sex for food in Haiti's quake nightmare

30.08.11
Women are being forced to sell sex for food in Haiti because of 'serious' failings in the reconstruction effort after last year's earthquake, human rights campaigners warn... more

Britain told to do more to protect 'slaves' in embassies

28.06.11
Britain is failing to prosecute international diplomats who abuse domestic staff working in London embassies, according to a US State Department report... more

BAE Systems agrees to $79m extra to U.S. regulators

17.05.11
British defence contractor BAE Systems agrees to pay additional fines of up to $79 million for flouting U.S. regulations governing the export of sensitive military hardware... more

Syrian troops use batons to break up mass student demo

12.05.11
Syrian troops have broken up a demonstration by thousands of students in Aleppo, the second largest city, activists have said... more

Syria troops 'arrest 500 activists'

26.04.11
As many as 500 people have been arrested in Syria after troops and tanks were sent into a southern city at the centre of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, a human rights group said... more

Police arrest 35 at Wikileaks demonstration

21.03.11
Hundreds of people rallied outside the base where army private Bradley Manning is being detained on charges of providing classified data to Wikileaks ... more

Wikileaks soldier is charged with aiding the enemy

03.03.11
A US Army private suspected of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website is charged with aiding the enemy, a crime that can carry the death penalty... more

Turmoil erupts in four more countries after Egypt revolution

16.02.11
Ripples spreading across the Middle East after the success of the popular uprising against Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak gathered force today as protesters in four countries demanded the overthrow of their governments.... more

The leakers who fear for their lives in the land of the free

03.12.10
The cry of treason against WikiLeaks is overblown — even if the website has out-conspired the State Department... more

WikiLeaks just shows us the world as it really is

01.12.10
The revelation of what senior diplomats make of Cameron and co will work to our advantage in the end... more

With the click of a mouse, secrecy is no longer an option

29.11.10
WikiLeaks’ revelations are just the start of a tide of untested disclosure. Governments will be hard pushed to contain it... more

Trust is the casualty of WikiLeaks disclosures

29.11.10
Can normal diplomatic relations can be sustained when at least one side is in doubt about whether their confidential disclosures will end up on the front page of the New York Times?... more

Downing Street warned over new WikiLeaks files

26.11.10
David Cameron is warned that fresh revelations from whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks about US foreign policy could expose Britain’s secret relations with its main ally... more

California's marijuana vote ‘is mixed message’

27.10.10
Vote in California to legalise marijuana next month would send a confusing signal from the US, leaders of Latin American nations say... more

Fresh terror warning for UK and US travellers

04.10.10
Travellers face a warning about possible terror attacks after both the UK and US governments issue new alerts... more

US accuses BP of Libya oil deal on Lockerbie bomber

14.07.10
US senators call for an inquiry into whether BP played any role in last year’s release of the Lockerbie bomber... more

BAE bullish despite disappointment

05.05.10
BAE says it will achieve earnings growth this year, flagging up its "good" order intake since January... more

North Korea ready to resume talks on nuclear weapons

06.10.09
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il said he is ready to return to multi-national talks on its nuclear weapons programme - amid reports that it was restoring a nuclear complex... more

US rethinks its aid to Libya in backlash over Lockerbie

25.09.09
US is rethinking a decision to give $2.5million in aid to Libya because of the 'hero's welcome' the country gave to the Lockerbie bomber freed from a Scottish prison... more

US stands firm on embassy's unpaid C-charge

17.08.09
American embassy will continue not to pay the congestion charge despite the appointment of a new ambassador to London... more

Paranoid spirit of George Bush era would live on in this fortress

05.08.09
It's a fair bet that the US State Department didn't reckon on the level of insurgency they have encountered from London's planning authorities.... more

Hillary Clinton may become envoy to Northern Ireland

22.07.09
Hillary Clinton could return to Northern Ireland as the next US envoy... more

Obama's message to Muslims sent by text

04.06.09
Barack Obama will use texting to ensure his message of reconciliation with the Muslim world reaches as wide an audience as possible... more

London can lead us out of crisis

23.01.09
IT'S official. The economy is in recession: figures for the last quarter of 2008 show that there have been two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth... more

Israel uses phosphorus shells as smokescreen for troops

05.01.09
Israeli forces are using white phosphorus shells which can cause horrific burns, it was claimed... more

Bidders on start line for US embassy site

04.12.08
Bidders line up to buy the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square and turn it into what could be the most prestigious hotel and residential development in the world... more

Obama's new regime - it's too old school for my taste

03.12.08
There's a strange sense of political limbo here in America at the moment... more

US embassy will move to Battersea

02.10.08
The American Embassy is to quit Grosvenor Square, the Evening Standard has learned... more


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