Greek crisis: crunch time
The country will divide: right versus left – as it has been divided since British tanks rolled into Syntagma Square in 1944 to install former Nazi collaborators into office.
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I first heard about Colin Cotterill on a family holiday in the old royal capital of Laos, called Luang Prabang, writes our Asia Correspondent John Sparks.
A bestselling British author is fighting to get his novels published in the little-known Asian country where they are set.
He was one of the world’s most powerful and most controversial diplomats – celebrated and reviled in equal measure. Former US secretary of State Henry Kissenger, the man who shaped America’s Cold War policy – has died at the age of a hundred.
The south-east Asian summit in Laos has been overshadowed by a row after the Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, referred to Mr Obama as a “son of a whore”. He later claimed it wasn’t personal, but the US team called off a planned meeting between the two men. This report contains strong language throughout.
The country will divide: right versus left – as it has been divided since British tanks rolled into Syntagma Square in 1944 to install former Nazi collaborators into office.
More than a dozen leading members of Greece’s far-right party are due to go on trial, accused of posing as a political force to carry out a criminal agenda.
In Assos, a sleepy farming village in the gulf of Corinth, the far-left Syriza party got 121 votes in the election 10 years ago. On Sunday it should top the polls – easily.
The decision by Greek MPs to reject presidential candidate Stavros Dimas could be a crucial moment for the country, for the Eurozone and in global economics.
Two Burmese men – who are said to have confessed to murdering British backpackers in Thailand last month – are sent to Koh Tao beach for a reconstruction of the crime.
North Koreans caught trying to flee their country face execution. But for one mother and her son, the risk was worth it.
Malaysia are said to have asked for top secret data from US spy satellites monitored from Australia, in an attempt to track down the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370.
Tensions rise outside court in Greece as Golden Dawn’s leaders appear in court. But police evidence raises questions about the party – and about whether there is the political will to deter it.
Greece’s government prepares to submit legislation aimed at cutting funding to far-right nationalist party Golden Dawn, following the arrest of its leadership over the weekend.
Greek police arrest two MPs and the leader of Golden Dawn in a crackdown on the right-wing political party, after a politically-motivated murder earlier this month.
Civil servants’ six day holiday perk for the strain of having to use a computer falls under the axe as Greece makes austerity cuts.