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• Bush admits: Tony Blair was my closest foreign ally• Waterboarding ‘helped to break up terror plots in UK’• Iraq was the right thing to do, says former presidentGeorge Bush ordered the Pentagon to plan an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and considered a covert attack on Syria, the former president reveals in his memoirs.Bush, [...]

The Islamic Action Front is protesting against an electoral law introduced in May, which failed to redress an imbalance they argue favours tribal areas over cities, where Palestinian and oppositionist presence is greater

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu told Joe Biden, US vice-president, that Washington should use tougher language and set out a clearer timeline. But Robert Gates, US defence secretary, set out US resistance to the Israeli arguments

In a new greenhouse, large enough to contain two football pitches, the Islamist Hamas group is opening a new front in the battle for control of the Gaza Strip.

Last week’s massacre is the latest in a series of tragedies. The worry is that the Christian community will disappear entirelyOver the last week in publicity trailing the release of his autobiography, former president George W Bush admitted that when it came to Iraq he felt a “sickening feeling”. Sadly for those looking for greater [...]

Bomb blasts are set to exacerbate public frustrations with the country’s political leaders and increase concerns that the country is sliding back into sectarian violence

British foreign secretary ends two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories with call for Netanyahu to renew freeze on settlement construction to allow talks to resumeWilliam Hague warned today that the window of opportunity for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was closing and failure by the two parties to reach agreement would [...]

Julian Assange says claims in leaked documents yet to be investigated, as US faces UN grilling over human rights recordThe founder of whistleblowing website Wikileaks has called on the US to investigate alleged abuses by its troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, saying it has a “proud tradition” of self-scrutiny.Julian Assange says the US has not [...]

Iranian authorities have arrested four people they say were paid by a Kurdish militant based in Britain to carry out assassinations, state-run Press TV reported

Iranian authorities have arrested four people they say were paid by someone based in Britain to carry out assassinationsIran said today it had arrested four men it claims were paid by a man based in Britain to carry out a series of assassinations, according to official state TV.The Foreign Office dismissed as a “baseless” slur [...]

Modern piety insists children be shielded from death. But 3,000 years ago they knew betterAs a 10-year-old I was puzzled by many of the tales in my Children’s Book of Bible Stories. The one that confounded me most was also one of the first I read: the story of Eve, who tastes the fruit of [...]

William Hague was invol­ved in a spat with Israel on his first official visit to the country after his hosts said they were postponing a “strategic dialogue” with the UK on military and intelligence issues

Israel has postponed a high-level meeting with the British government saying it does not want to expose officials and soldiers visiting the UK to the risk of arrest for alleged war crimes

Judge Antonio Cassese, the president of a UN-backed tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, has said that he hopes the prosecutor’s office will issue indictments before the end of the year

Top-level prices for the crop are delighting the country’s farmers but depressing its textile industry, which has gained increasing importance to the economy