Nearly four years ago, foreign ministers and other senior officials from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world’s largest regional security body, met in Berlin to address a new plague of anti-Semitism in Europe. The conference was a much-needed wake-up call to confront the violent resurgence of this age-old hatred. for more click here
The Lewis Chessmen, a set of carved pieces made in the 12th century and found hidden on a Scottish beach six centuries later, have become the subject of a cross-border repatriation row.
The Chessmen, fashioned out of walrus ivory and whale teeth, were found near Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the early 19th century. They are deemed to be one of the greatest artefacts ever found in Scotland. for more click here
MK Shteinitz criticized the Foreign Minister for withholding from the United States Congress a video of Egyptian police assisting Hamas terrorists. for more click here
The radical Islamist group Fatah al-Islam, which was recently crushed by the Lebanese army, has begun operating inside the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority officials said Tuesday. for more click here
A man suspected of kidnapping, torturing and murdering opposition activists in South America in the 1970s and early 1980s has been arrested in Italy and faces a landmark prosecution there.
Nestor Jorge Fernández Troccoli, a former naval intelligence officer in Uruguay, is believed to have been involved in Operation Condor, the covert operation by several military dictatorships to eliminate dissidents. for more click here
LAHORE: A doomsday war between nuclear-armed adversaries Iran and Israel would kill up to 28 million Iranians and destroy their nation, but the Jewish state might survive, according to a prestigious US think tank, reported the New York Post.
The nightmare “what if?” scenario concluded that Israel’s state-of-the-art missile defence would intercept most of Iran’s nuclear-tipped missiles. for more click here
Winston Churchill had one of his earlier ministerial offices there. Lord Kitchener directed the First World War from a desk there, and other former inhabitants include David Lloyd George and Lawrence of Arabia.
But after more than a century’s illustrious service, the Ministry of Defence is preparing to sell off the Old War Office Building in the heart of London. for more click here
The “Christmas truce” is a term used to describe several brief unofficial cessations of hostilities that occurred between German and British or French troops in World War I, particularly that with British troops stationed on the Western Front of World War I during Christmas 1914. In 1915 there was a similar Christmas truce between German and French troops, and during Easter 1916 a truce also existed on the Eastern Front. for more click here
A LOTHIANS SNP MSP has called for cross-party support for the campaign to write off Edinburgh’s housing debt.
Shirley-Anne Somerville attacked Chancellor Alistair Darling for using billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to prop up Northern Rock while failing to write off the Capital’s £280m debt burden. for more click here>
FLOOD prevention measures to protect thousands of city homes could be under threat because of the council’s cash shortage, Labour claimed today.
Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central and the party’s environment spokeswoman, claimed a change in government funding had placed a question mark over the £46.5m Water of Leith flood defence scheme. for more click here