World View

President Barack Obama seems to be working under a serious misapprehension.

All the foreigners and about half the Ivorians agree that Alassane Ouattara won last month's presidential election in Ivory Coast, but not the southerners, who say that it was their man, Laurent Gb

The United Nations climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, is nearing its end, and while the ending will not be as rancorous as last year's train-wreck in Copenhagen, there will be no global deal on cutt

South Korea's defence minister, Kim Tae-Young, was forced to resign after criticism that he was too slow to respond when North Korea attacked the island of Yeonpyeong on Tuesday last week, killing

The United States Government, faced with the publication on the internet of a quarter-million cables sent by US embassies in recent years, has responded just as it did when WikiLeaks posted similar

It was a Republican president, Richard Nixon, who signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (Salt) with the old Soviet Union in 1972.

The "tourists" (as South Africans used to call them in deliberate mockery of their attempts to terrorise everybody, and as George W.

People love historical analogies, so it's easy to think of Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest on Saturday as Myanmar's Mandela moment.

You probably noticed reports recently about the secret trial in Georgia of two Armenian men who tried to sell highly enriched uranium (HEU) to a man purporting to be an Islamist terrorist.