President Barack Obama is returning to the threat to US security that he calls the gravest of all: terrorists getting material for a nuclear bomb.
American diplomatic cables show the Botswana government gave the US the green light to explore the possibility of establishing an Africom base.
The Libya regime’s offers to negotiate with the rebels may seem less than sincere but history has coughed up far worse fibs than Gaddafi’s fictions.
Human rights campaigners vow to hound ex-US president.
The red carpet is out for the Chinese president — a far cry from a miserable working lunch.
Flexing their political muscle, US Republicans have promised a string of investigations into Barack Obama’s administration.
By funding right-wing organisations, the mega-rich Koch brothers have duped millions into supporting big business at their expense.
US President George W Bush has pardoned his last Thanksgiving turkey,which will now fly first-class to Disneyland in California.
Not long ago it was fashionable to say that American elections didn’t matter much to the rest of the world. After eight years of George W Bush…
It was a bad plan — but it was a plan. The refusal of the US House of Representatives to back Hank Paulson’s bail out takes us into new territory.
The financial crisis ended the Palin circus but the Democratic presidential candidate must buck up his ideas to exploit McCain’s weak point.
The US and its allies pose the biggest danger to world peace
As the focus last week turned to Barack Obama’s choice of running mate his other crucial partner continues to show that the Democratic nominee isn’t t
Moscow has to take some of the blame. But it is the West’s policy of liberal interventionism that has fuelled war in Georgia.
Higher education is clearly dangerous in today’s political climate. Zuma has no formal education, but that hasn’t deterred him.
"At last, we are now on the freeway!" said my driver, exhaling proudly, adjusting his sunglasses and revving our white Hyundai hatchback to a recklessly exhilarating 80kph. I…
South African feminist writer Stephanie Vermeulen argues that men too are the victims of cultural forces that distort their lives. Her book <i>Stitched-Up: Who Fashions Women’s…
Percy Zvomuya reviews Zakes Mda latest offering <i>Cion</i>
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> <b>Shaun de Waal</b> reviews <i>300</i>, the new movie about the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC which is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel.
Arundhati Roy wrote a Booker winner, then became a political activist. Ten years and two court cases later, she has begun a second novel. Randeep Ramesh speaks to the author.
