A court in Bangkok has approved an arrest warrant for former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on “terrorism charges”.
Thaksin is accused of bankrolling recent “red shirt” protests in the Thai capital that left 88 people dead and thousands wounded following a mililtary crackdown.
The court on Tuesday heard evidence from Thailand’s department of special investigations, the [...]
Ethiopians have begun voting in national elections that are expected to return Meles Zenawi, the long-serving prime minister, to power in the first ballot since a disputed poll in 2005 turned violent.
Polling stations started opening as planned at 6:00am local time (0300 GMT) on Sunday.
Some 32 million Ethiopians – 90 per cent of eligible voters [...]
David Cameron has become Britain’s new prime minister after the Conservative leader secured a power-sharing agreement with the Liberal Democrats.
Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader who was thrust into the position of kingmaker after Thursday’s inconclusive election, was appointed deputy prime minister on Tuesday, just hours after Cameron took office.
Earlier in the day, Gordon Brown [...]
The Greek government is set to reveal the austerity measures that have to be taken in return of an international rescue package to get the country out of its debt crisis.
In a cabinet meeting on Sunday, George Papandreou, the prime minister, said Greeks would be called upon to make “great sacrifices” in return for aid.
Papandreou [...]
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has sought to bolster Gordon Brown’s faltering election campaign with an appeal to voters to judge his successor on policy, not personality.
Brown’s ruling Labour Party is trailing in third place in many opinion polls less than a week before the May 6 general election.
The prime minister has struggled [...]
George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, has asked the European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to activate a financial aid package, designed to help pull the euro zone member out of its debt crisis.
The request on Friday followed negotiations with EU and IMF officials over the details of the $60bn emergency rescue package.
Financial data [...]
Israel’s prime minister has cancelled plans to attend next week’s Washington summit on nuclear security hosted by Barack Obama, the US president.
Binyamin Netanyahu made the decision after learning that Egypt and Turkey planned to raise the issue of Israel’s presumed nuclear arsenal at the conference, a senior Israeli government official was quoted as saying late [...]
