World Politics

Muhammad Yunus is credited with revolutionising microfinance

Nobel prize-winner faces inquiry over aid money

Andrew Buncombe: Muhammad Yunus's Grameen Bank is being investigated in Bangladesh, as the 'banker to the poor' and PM Sheikh Hasina clash yet again.

Inside World Politics

World 'unable to handle any future shocks'

Thursday, 13 January 2011

The ability of governments to respond to future shocks is at "critically low levels" after the battering of the credit crisis, according to a report from the World Economic Forum (WEF), the organiser of the Davos summit of political and business leaders. Its annual risk assessment gives warning that the unprecedented peacetime debts racked up by governments as they fought to restore growth have left the global economy in a precarious position.

Assange: I've got secret files on Murdoch as 'insurance'

Thursday, 13 January 2011

Ian Burrell: WikiLeaks founder claims to be in possession of secret documents damaging to the media mogul .

As West woos China, no word about missing activist

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Peter Popham: Torture of Gao Zhisheng not among topics discussed at Mansion House.

Clinton admits WikiLeaks will dominate the rest of her life

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Outwardly, Hillary Clinton's progress through the capitals of America's most crucial Middle Eastern allies in recent days has been to bolster support for the war on terror. Privately, she admits it is also an "apology tour" aimed at undoing the damage caused by the WikiLeaks revelations.

America's real special relationship

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Obama causes stir by saying US has 'no stronger ally' than France. John Lichfield asks: why the fuss?

Pakistan: Voices of reason

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

The news that Salman Taseer, the powerful governor of Pakistan’s most populous province, had been gunned down by his own security guard for standing up against the country’s draconian blasphemy laws, came as a bleak reminder of political fissures that divide the country.

US demands Twitter release Assange details

Sunday, 9 January 2011

Emily Dugan: Court in Virginia secretely subpoenas information relating to accounts of four WikiLeaks associates.

EU refuses Iran's nuclear tour offer

Saturday, 8 January 2011

The European Union has turned down an offer from Iran to tour its nuclear facilities. Tehran had invited Hungary, which holds the EU's revolving presidency, and International Atomic Energy Agency ambassadors to visit the Natanz uranium enrichment plant and the Arak heavy-water complex .

Food price rises mean danger, warns UN

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Sean O'Grady: Riots, geopolitical tensions, global inflation and increasing hunger among the planet's poorest people are the likely effects.

Private memo exposes US fears over Wikileaks

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Guy Adams: White House instructs every government department to create 'insider threat' programmes that will ferret out disgruntled employees who might leak secrets recently made public by website.

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