The past two weeks have seen the issue of nuclear weapons feature prominently in the news. The discussion of these weapons has been led predominantly by President Obama, who has focused on three key issues. These include a new treaty to reduce US and...
Wed 21 Apr 2010 by Rebecca Johnson | Read more »
Haifa Zangana says little as I apologise profusely for dragging her out of bed into the wind and snow of a typical Edinburgh winter’s morning. It is unsurprising. Zangana, an Iraqi author, journalist and political activist, was tortured and impri...
Wed 03 Mar 2010 by James Fidler | Read more »
Relations between China and the United States deteriorated following the recent US sale of $6.4 billion worth of weapons to Taiwan. China cut off military exchanges with the US and threatened, for the first time, to sanction American companies involve...
Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Zhiqun Zhu | Read more »
The chief advisor to the UN on climate change has claimed that a US revolution could come about as a result of proposed carbon cuts. The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, claimed that if Barack Obama comm...
Mon 23 Mar 2009 by Demian Hobby | Read more »
President Obama has signed orders stating that the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison camp and all overseas detention centres for terror suspects shall be enforced within the next year. Obama’s review of the policies enshrined by Guantanamo will a...
Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Juliet Grant | Read more »
After the longest presidential campaign in US history, over one million people gathered in Washington on Tuesday 20 January to be present upon the day many American citizens thought would never come. In sub-zero temperatures, huge crowds crammed into ...
Sun 25 Jan 2009 by Ishbel Eunson | Read more »
The election of Barack Obama as US president could threaten British universities' intake of foreign students, education experts claim. Leading analysts have said that as the negative perceptions of America diminish and US visa restrictions are relaxed...
Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »
“Character matters to me. Everyone says it but its true: gays, guns and god usually set my vote.” Harry Tucker is from York County, a reliably Republican part of Pennsylvania. He voted for Bush both times but is now leaning towards voting f...
Mon 27 Oct 2008 by Josh MacAllister | Read more »
