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Who gets the goodbyes in the PM’s cabinet reshuffle?
The cabinet reshuffle’s hardly looking like it’ll be a curtain-raiser, Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports.
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The Defence Secretary Phil Hammond tells the Commons there will be no change in Nato’s strategy of training Afghan police and soldiers following a spate of rogue attacks.
The US embassy compound in Tunis and the German embassy in Khartoum are set alight as violence erupts over an anti-Islam film that has offended many Muslims. At least five protesters are dead.
Several political big beasts are moved but many remain in government. Does Prime Minister David Cameron’s first major reshuffle have the smack of firm leadership?
The cabinet reshuffle’s hardly looking like it’ll be a curtain-raiser, Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports.
David Cameron seeks to reclaim the political initiative as MPs return to Westminster this week after a summer marked by an outbreak of internal dissent over his leadership.
The WikiLeaks founder calls for the US to end its ‘war on whistleblowers’ but gives no hint as to how his extradition deadlock will be resolved.
The Organisation of American States jumps into the diplomatic row over Julian Assange and the inviolability of the Ecuadorian embassy as the WikiLeaks founder prepares to address the crowd on Sunday.
The Foreign Office says it will extradite Julian Assange despite Ecuador’s decision to grant asylum to the WikiLeaks founder, after he took refuge in the country’s embassy in London.
The UK government says it will give £5m to rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria to pay for “non-lethal support for the political opposition”.
With Syrian forces pounding rebel-held areas of Aleppo with helicopter gunships on Friday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he fears another massacre on the scale of Srebrenica.
More than 100 people are killed, and hundreds more wounded, in a string of bombings and shootings in Iraq.
Syria promises not to use chemical weapons against its own citizens, an action UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says that would be “reprehensible”. Alex Thomson reports live from Damascus.
The UN says as many as 30,000 Syrian refugees may have crossed into Lebanon in the last 48 hours to escape the bloody uprising, and Syria’s intelligence chief dies of wounds sustained in a bomb blast.
Russia and China veto a UN resolution proposing sanctions on Syria as it emerges the UK has frozen £100m of Syrian assets. Are President Assad’s days in charge numbered?
Heavy fighting in the streets of Damascus follows a bomb blast which killed Syria’s defence minister, deputy defence minister – President Assad’s brother-in-law – and a senior military official.