Last May, an unexpectedly strong election victory seemed to place the Indian National Congress Party at the brink of a new,...read more

The popularity of Finance Minister Paula Cox, widely tipped to become Bermuda's next Premier, has plummeted...read more

In a parting shot at her former Electoral Commission colleagues, Agnes Blaize is alleging that the body is tainted by politics and unfit to oversee any electoral process in Antigua & Barbuda....read more

Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking to have her name removed as a defendant in a motion by the Bruce Golding government challenging aspects of Jamaica’s extradition treaty with the United States....read more

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to the Security Council to endorse a plan for the “rapid strengthening” of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti, otherwise referred to as MINUSTAH....read more

The ratings agency Standard & Poor’s lowered the debt rating of Spain on Wednesday, its third downgrade of a European country in two days....read more

In the newspapers, cataclysm was looming for Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s faltering Labour government. Cabinet ...read more

Chechnya’s president, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, ordered the kidnapping of a Chechen whistle-blower in Vienna last year, in which the man was fatally shot, Austria’s counterterrorism ...read more

A top Irish finance official said Wednesday that the soaring borrowing costs many European governments are facing showed that markets have become “irrational,” and he played down any comparison of Ireland’s financial situation to that of Greece....read more

The Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission (ABEC) says it is “shocked at the malicious and unwarranted attacks” made against it by Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer at a public meeting...read more