G8/Syria: Obama silent and Cameron light on support
Arming the Syrian rebels: David Cameron is like “a man who drags his friend to the bar only to discover he’s got no money himself to buy a round”.
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Arming the Syrian rebels: David Cameron is like “a man who drags his friend to the bar only to discover he’s got no money himself to buy a round”.
Countries justify their involvement in conflict by claiming they are fighting a “just war”. But the moral struggle in Syria may be morphing into a power play between the west and Russia.
The leaders of the G8 nations gather to attend the summit in Northern Ireland on Monday, with Syria’s crisis dominating the agenda.
Churchill called them the “dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone”. The world may have been convulsed by war between 1914-18, but as he sat down in its aftermath yet again to stare at maps of the disputed border counties, Ireland’s bloody quarrel emerged from the Firsr World War battle smoke untouched.
David Cameron is devoting a lot of time to his most difficult customer at the G8. Vladimir Putin will get a one on one chat with the PM in No. 10 this afternoon before the two head for Northern Ireland.
Guests of David Cameron’s G8 summit will not need to look further than their own doorstep for examples of a challenging world economy.
You would expect the Prism spying software scanning the world’s email for terrorism to be cutting-edge, but experts say it is not much smarter than a search engine. But how does it work?
Russian opposition leaders release a report claiming up to $30bn was stolen during preparations for the next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Will Syria’s huge chemical weapons stockpile be used by the regime against its own people? Will it be transferred to Lebanon for use against Israel? Or could it fall into the hands of jihadists?
The fallout from the Boston Marathon bombing has been a new line of communication between Russia and the USA. But can it help bring a diplomatic push to end the Syria crisis?
Can the president of the United Arab Emirates diplomatically handle the British allegations of torture that threaten to derail his visit?
Post Boston, the issue is primarily political in the case of these violent, angry, disaffected young men. But we’ve been here before – and instead of politics we offer war.
Russia asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, a US law enforcement source says.
As foreign leaders send tributes to Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday following a stroke, there are celebrations in Brixton and Glasgow by those who continue to oppose the “Iron Lady”.
Cyprus secures a last-minute, 10bn euro bailout in a deal which will see its second largest bank closed and those with the largest deposits facing a levy to raise funds.