08 Nov
Events of Interest and Analyses, A Foreign Perspective
News
News
China opens Communist Party congress
Chinese President Hu Jintao urges a clampdown on corruption as ruling party begins leadership transition.
Last Modified: 08 Nov 2012 14:06 GMT
Assad vows to ‘live and die’ in Syria
Syrian president rejects calls for him to seek exile, warning that foreign intervention will have global consequences.
Last Modified: 08 Nov 2012 16:27 GMT
Middle East
Obama returns to work as ‘fiscal cliff’ looms
Challenges to the US president’s second term include a struggling economy on the verge of a $600bn crisis.
Last Modified: 08 Nov 2012 10:04 GMT
Americas
How to Rob Africa
People & Power
08 Nov 2012 09:56 GMT
Why does the Western world feed Africa with one hand while taking from it with the other?
Cameron confronted with list of alleged Tory paedophiles
Fears that Phillip Schofield may have revealed names to camera during live This Morning broadcast
Severe storm brings more chaos to US
08 November 2012 08:40 AM
A winter storm brought gusting winds, rain, snow and the threat of flooding to America’s north-east coast, menacing travellers with icy roads, snarling a railway line – and knocking out power to thousands who only recently got it back after Superstorm Sandy.
A second term – and a second chance at the greatness he promised
08 November 2012 12:00 AM
Barack Obama emerged early yesterday from the mincing machine of the presidential election, bruised but politically intact after decisively dispatching Mitt Romney and thus securing a second chance at becoming the transformative leader he had always promised to be.
Barack Obama to visit Burma ‘this month’
Burmese government source says US president will visit on 19 November, meeting Aung San Suu Kyi as well as Thein Sein
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Xi Jinping and Barack Obama: two leaders facing very different crises
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Obama’s in-tray – Guantánamo Bay
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Obama’s in-tray – Israel / Palestine
An open letter to Obama from the world’s poorest countries
As president you have helped those who cause climate change more than those affected most by it. Helping the world’s poorest adapt is now a matter of urgency, and it can be your great legacy
