Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, is visiting Iran for a nuclear summit that may prove to be Tehran’s last chance to avoid new UN sanctions.
Lula said in Moscow before departing for Tehran that he was “optimistic” and hoped to be able to persuade Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, to reach an agreement [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has said ties with Afghanistan remain strong and backed the Afghan government’s efforts to engage with Taliban fighters who give up violence.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, at the White House, Obama said he supported Kabul’s efforts to “open the door to Taliban, who [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has vowed that “no effort” will be spared in attempts to tackle a massive oil slick threatening the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Shortly after arriving in the US state of Lousiana, one of four that could be affected by the spill, Obama defended his government’s response to the potential [...]
The president of the European Commission has said he is confident that a planned bailout of the Greek economy will stop the debt crisis from spreading over to other countries.
Jose Manuel Barroso said on Friday that “rapid progress” was being made towards the multi-billion dollar joint European Union-International Monetary Fund (IMF) package being implemented.
“We believe [...]
Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan’s incumbent president, has won another term after the country’s first multi-party presidential poll in 24 years.
Al-Bashir had been widely expected to retain the presidency after a number of opposition parties withdrew their candidates, but the official announcement of the results on Monday confirmed his victory with 68 per cent of the [...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is due to sign trade agreements with Zimbabwe during a visit to the country.
At a trade fair in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe, on Friday, Ahmadinejad said that the level of trade between the two nations was not at full capacity and should improve.
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, [...]
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has spoken out in favour of a full ban on the Islamic veil as the government draws up a law to prohibit the garment in public spaces.
According to a government spokesman, Sarkozy told a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the veil “hurts the dignity of women and is not acceptable [...]
Iran’s president has called for the formation of a new international body to oversee nuclear disarmament as the country opened a two-day summit on civilian nuclear energy in the capital, Tehran.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the call on Saturday at a summit seen as a counterpoint to a major conference in Washington earlier this week, in which [...]
Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, will undergo a gall bladder operation in Germany on Saturday, Egyptian state television has announced.
It reported on Thursday that the ageing president had complained of gall bladder pain while in Germany for talks with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.
“Mubarak is undergoing surgery on his gall bladder because he has been [...]