Policy

Iran is facing international condemnation over its four-year detention of Canadian computer programmer resident Saeed Malekpour who, while visiting his ill father in 2008, was arrested and charged with “spreading corruption”, a common accusation in the country for anyone seen as a threat to Islamic theocracy.

NEW DELHI – Thirty-three years ago, then-US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke of an “arc of crisis” coursing through the Middle East and into Central Asia. Today, events in Syria and Pakistan, as well as the recent bombings in Bangkok and New Delhi, which some are linking to Iran, suggest that Brzezinski...

In order to be able to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians, the Red Cross has announced it is in talks with the Syrian authorities and rebels to halt the violence.

Greek New Democracy President Antonis Samaras praises the Eurogroup decision and makes statements for opening the way to early elections.

On 20 February, the French government repeated its request to the European Commission to suspend the authorisation to grow MON810GM corn seeds because of damage to agriculture.