China’s Premier Li – on EU reform and the Scottish question
In the UK for a three-day visit, Premier Li failed to kill off his ambassador’s insult suggesting Britain was behind Germany and France in Beijing’s estimation.
1,767 items found
Three Al Jazeera journalists – on trial accused of aiding members of a “terrorist organisation” – are sentenced to seven years in prison by an Egyptian court.
US Secretary of State John Kerry says the US will not delay in helping Iraq defeat the Isis insurgency.
Sunni insurgents led by al-Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis), capture three towns in Iraq’s western Anbar province, security sources claim.
A car bomb in Syria’s western Hama province kills 34 and wounds more than 50, Syria’s state news agency SANA reports.
In the UK for a three-day visit, Premier Li failed to kill off his ambassador’s insult suggesting Britain was behind Germany and France in Beijing’s estimation.
They have been called state sponsors of terrorism – but now the United States is considering working together with Iran, as both countries try to stop Iraq disintegrating into chaos.
The scale of the crisis in Iraq has led many to wonder what was once unpalatable: would the country be more stable if Saddam Hussein had remained in power?
Violent insurgency in Iraq is the “predictable” result of the west’s failure to intervene in Syria, not of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Tony Blair declares in a renewed call for military action.
US President Barack Obama say he is “not ruling anything out” to help Iraq deal with the insurgent threat after days of violence as militants take over a swathe of the country.
Grinning from ear to ear, Syrian extremist rebel commander Abu Omar al-Shishani climbs out of a US-made Humvee – freshly delivered from Iraq where his extremist group is making gains.
Barack Obama pulled American troops out of Iraq more than two years ago – but Washington is being pulled back into a war that Obama thought he had already brought to a close.
Islamist militant group Isis makes further gains in Iraq, seizing Tikrit – the hometown of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein – 95 miles north of Baghdad.
US marine commander Elliot Ackerman tells Channel 4 News there is no appetite to intervene in Iraq but former ambassador James Jeffrey says Iraq is sinking “slowly under the control of terrorism”.
Islamic militants take control of Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities, prompting the country’s prime minister to call for a state of emergency to be declared.
Ireland has been rocked this week as another horrific scandal linked to the Catholic church emerges in Galway, where a mass grave with the bodies of 800 children was uncovered.