EDINBURGH, Scotland: Abdelbaset Ali al-Mergahi, the only man convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people, was home in Libya...
By the end of this week, Abdulbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person to be convicted in the December 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which killed 270...
Last week, on a sunny afternoon in the sleepy English market town of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, around 4,000 people gathered and stood and watched as eight...
Britain and Iran appear to have paused for breath in the increasingly acrimonious war of words that climaxed with this week's tit-for-tat expulsion of...
A week, they say, is a long time in politics. And so it seems like an eternity since British Prime Minister Gordon Brown proclaimed to the nation that he had...
How angry is the White House with the United Kingdom for opening talks with Hizbullah? Judging by the tirade of criticism that emanated from the US State...
Gordon Brown's government is in its death throes, propelled there by a recession, rising unemployment and a succession of revelations highlighting ministerial...
The turmoil on the world's financial markets is getting serious. I bumped into a stock broker acquaintance the other day who complained he hadn't enjoyed a...
Beirut played host last week to Raymond McCartney, elected member of Northern Ireland's new devolved parliament. Although little known outside of his native...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is scheduled to make "an important strategy announcement" on Iraq next month. Much to US President George W. Bush's...
LONDON: The Middle East is set to enjoy a surge in private equity investment as Western markets continue to be squeezed by the global credit crunch, according...
Despite appearances to the contrary, the knives are not quite out yet for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. They are certainly being sharpened. But no one...
A good deal of political hot air was expended in the United Kingdom marking last month's fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Although it was noticeable...
How much does a war cost? Not just the cost of military firepower, but the cost of compensating the families of dead soldiers, looking after injured soldiers...
"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals." So spoke Milo Minderbinder in Joseph...
Amnesia is all the rage in the United Kingdom at the moment. Take Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Recently, it was revealed that he and the Labor Party had...
The United Kingdom is in the middle of the political conference season, when politicians join their party faithful in sleepy English seaside towns and indulge...
Is there a wind of change blowing across the Atlantic toward Washington from London? Is British Prime Minister Gordon Brown distancing himself from the United...
In May 1997 Tony Blair was swept into power on an enormous wave of optimism. Britain's youngest prime minister since 1812, his approval ratings were the...
A family in Kosovo has just named their newborn son Tonibler, after - I kid you not - the United Kingdom's outgoing prime minister Tony Blair, whom the family...
Today marks the 25th anniversary of Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands. Surprisingly, the actions of Britain's then-prime minister, Margaret...
LONDON: Stock traders in the Middle East earned a higher percentage of salary and bonus increases than their rivals in New York and London during 2006. In...
"What all of this means is not that Basra is how we want it to be. But it does mean that the next chapter in Basra's history can be written by the Iraqis."...
As the year turned, the United Kingdom found itself in the midst of a religious revival of sorts. The nation was gripped by the plight of the Anglican bishop...
Let's start with the obvious. The report of the Iraq Study Group wasn't much about Britain. Fair enough. But unfortunately, it wasn't about Iraq either. It...