A Libyan politician suing the government for damages amid claims a tip-off led to him being kidnapped and tortured in a Gaddafi jail will drop his cas...
Tory MP Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the all-party group on rendition, said the Justice and Security Bill would make it more difficult to establish the truth about Britain's complicity in kidnap and torture and make us all less safe. I think he is right about that.
David Cameron says he will be arguing for human rights when he visits Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman this week. The stronger message, however, will be of UK support and the government's willingness to do anything to promote UK arms company interests.
Here in Mali, families are trapped in a perfect storm - the consequences of climate change and political regime change. Drought has led to a dreadful harvest and rocketing prices, whilst the departure of Gaddafi has led to migrating mercenaries, laden with arms.
Photographs, documents and artefacts from the reign of Muammar Gaddafi are to go on display for the first time in London, giving a new perspective int...
The decision to send a British police team to Libya to continue the investigation into the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher has been hailed as a "really ...
Argentina's continued position around the G20 table is bringing the whole institution into disrepute.
With the imminent release of The Dictator, Baron Cohen's despot comedy this new blog post is a new poem, begun on a flight to Khartoum last October, t...
Tony Blair said today he has no memory of the Belhadj rendition case but claimed he was not aware of any occasion when his government breached its opp...
The Commissioner for the British Indian Ocean Territory is being sued for complicity in the alleged rendition and torture of a Libyan rebel who is now...
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief Abdullah Al-Senussi has been arrested. Libya confirmed Senussi had been arrested in Mau...
So, it seems getting rid of Gaddafi was the easy part. Building a democratic Libya based on the rule of law and where everyone is pulling in the same direction is clearly going to be much trickier.
The curtain call at the Royal Opera’s Rusalka was met with booing this week. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s adaptation has transformed the fam...
Cambridge University student officials came to blows over the controversial invitation extended to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Mo...
New claims that will allegedly "destroy the prosecution case" against the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing will be revealed today. A new...
One year on from the start of the revolution in Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron has promised that the UK would continue to support the country as ...
The publication yesterday of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee Report on Libya is quite rightly very positive about the conduct and outcome of recent operations in that country.
The fact remains though that we need to talk about famine. Perhaps not in the technical UN-defined sense of the word. But in the dictionary sense of the word: extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area. With so many lives potentially at stake, now is not the time to dodge the issue.
This year, we've feared the doom and felt the gloom. We watched as people battled for democracy abroad, whilst battles took place within our democracy at home.
A budding art student's illustration has trumped thousands of professional drawings to win the political cartoon of the year. Ben Jennings, an unde...
The decision to unfreeze the assets of two Libyan banks is "another significant moment" in the country's transition, the Foreign Secretary said. Wi...
In Tripoli a few years ago, we were very impressed with the facilities at an ultra-modern hospital. Our suspicions grew however after our questions ab...
Wikileaks has released the first swathe of 'spyfiles' documents from security companies around the world, in an effort to “shine a light" on a "secr...
The Foreign Office "lobbied" Oxford University to accept Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the recently deposed dictator, in the hope of improving relatio...
Britain has reiterated calls for Saif al Islam Gaddafi to be given a fair trial as prosecutors from The Hague prepared to fly into Libya for talks ove...
