Russia: biggest spy threat to BritainThe Russian intelligence services, the prime suspects behind the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, have a network of more than 30 spies operating in Britain, it can be revealed.
The sophisticated ring represents the greatest espionage threat facing Britain, Whitehall sources told The Sunday Telegraph.
The agents, equivalent to one in five of the Moscow government officials based in Britain, are known to be monitoring the movements and activities of Russian emigres and... (more)
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Ahmadinejad wants US out of IraqMahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has again called on the US to get out of Iraq.
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera's Darren Jordon on Friday, Ahmadinejad said that Iraqis should govern themselves without any interference and blamed the US for stirring up divisions between Iraq's Shia, Sunnis and Kurds.
His comments came a day after the US president met with Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, urging him to crack down on Shia militias blamed... (more)
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US tells banks to shut down Iran operationsSeveral of the UK's largest banks fear they could face the full legislative wrath of the US government unless they bow to Washington's pressure to shut their operations in Iran.
It is believed that officials in President George Bush's administration have also put pressure on banks with operations in the US, including RBS, HSBC and Barclays, to stop acting on behalf of UK business customers in Iran. Barclays, it is thought, has already told its corporate clients that it will not a... (more)
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Israelis: War In Summer 2007 1.The third Lebanon war
There will be a war next summer. Only the sector has not been chosen yet. The atmosphere in the Israel Defense Forces in the past month has been very pessimistic. The latest rounds in the campaigns on both fronts, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, have left too many issues undecided, too many potential detonators that could cause a new conflagration. The army's conclusion from this is that a war in the new future is a reasonable possibi... (more)
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Huge Beirut rally demands changeHundreds of thousands of supporters of Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies have held a mass rally in Beirut to protest against Lebanon's government.
As night fell, several thousand set up tents outside PM Fouad Siniora's office for an open-ended sit-in.
The opposition says it will keep up the pressure until the government resigns.
The protest follows weeks of rising tension in Lebanon, with the killing of a leading anti-Syrian politician and resignati... (more)
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Russian Official Says New U.S. Space Policy Will Lead to Military Confrontation A senior Russian space official sharply criticized an assertive new U.S. space policy signed by President George W. Bush, saying Wednesday that it would increase tension and could lead to military confrontation in space, The Associated Press news agency reports. In the first revision of U.S. space policy in nearly a decade, Bush signed an order earlier this year asserting the United States’ right to deny adversaries access to space for hostile purposes and saying... (more)
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60 Russian Spies Operate in Britain — LawmakerAs many as 60 Russian spies are operating in Britain, virtually unchallenged by a domestic intelligence service preoccupied by the threat from Islamic extremism, a lawmaker told a debate on relations between Moscow and London, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Chris Bryant, a legislator with Tony Blair’s governing Labour party who convened and led the session, said Russian authorities had shown a “casual disregard” for the deaths of journalists critical o... (more)
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Mystery surrounds F-16, pilot in Iraq crashThe pilot of an F-16 that crashed Monday in Iraq’s Anbar province is officially listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown, as defense officials confirmed that the plane — though not the pilot — was assigned to a squadron deployed to Iraq from New Mexico.
Pentagon officials have not confirmed broadcast reports and video and still images apparently showing the pilot’s body and parachute on the ground. The pilot’s body was apparently removed before U.S. ... (more)
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Ahmadinejad's letter to AmericansIn the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O, Almighty God, bestow upon humanity the perfect human being promised to all by You, and make us among his followers.
Noble Americans,
Were we not faced with the activities of the US administration in this part of the world and the negative ramifications of those activities on the daily lives of our peoples, coupled with the many wars and calamities caused by the US administration as well as ... (more)
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US man allegedly spied for Israel, ChinaA federal grand jury in Honolulu has indicted a leading former military engineer for allegedly transferring classified information to Israel, China, and other countries.
Noshir Gowadia, a 62-year-old Indian-born former engineer with US defense giant Northrop Grumman, was indicted on 18-counts of federal charges and is suspected of trying to sell Israel "top secret" data about US weapons systems, according to the Washington Times. He could face the death penalty.
Acc... (more)
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Britain wants UK break up, poll showsThe United Kingdom should be broken up and Scotland and England set free as independent nations, according to a huge number of voters on both sides of the border.
A clear majority of people in both England and Scotland are in favour of full independence for Scotland, an ICM opinion poll for The Sunday Telegraph has found. Independence is backed by 52 per cent of Scots while an astonishing 59 per cent of English voters want Scotland to go it alone.
There is also fur... (more)
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Boris Berezovsky: The first oligarch As Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy, lay dying in a London hospital, regular bulletins on his condition were supplied not by his family and only rarely by the hospital. The head messenger was the energetic and voluble Alex Goldfarb, who described himself as a close friend of the stricken agent. He could also have been described, no less accurately, as the right-hand man of Boris Berezovsky, the fugitive oligarch exiled in Britain who heads the list of Russia's "most wanted".
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Killing plunges Lebanon deeper into crisisNo-one except the gunmen and the men who paid them knows who killed Pierre Gemayel.
They operated in daylight, and did not bother to cover their faces.
They did not use a bomb, unlike the killers of the five other prominent anti-Syrian figures who have been assassinated here since the beginning of last year.
Instead, they crashed their cars into his, leapt out and opened fire on Mr Gemayel and his two bodyguards with their machine guns.
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