World Politics

Protesters face police yesterday outside a Nottingham coal-fired power station

Obama envoy warns of 'no deal' summit

Negotiations for the Copenhagen meeting are going 'too slow'

Inside World Politics

China unlikely to back more Iran sanctions

Friday, 16 October 2009

Premier Wen Jiabao says China intends to strengthen its co-operation with Iran, an indication that Beijing will oppose growing calls in the West for additional sanctions against the Islamic Republic for its nuclear programme.

The Big Question: Why is so much of the world still hungry, and what can we do about it?

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Slump pushes world hunger to 40-year high

Thursday, 15 October 2009

A combination of the food crisis and the global economic downturn has pushed more than 1 billion people into hunger in 2009, about 100 million more people than last year.

World Focus: Why Palestinians have lost faith in Obama

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Donald Macintyre: For a man who is sometimes seen as the Palestinian politician that the Israelis and the Americans like best, Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad was in a strikingly robust mood during a two-hour press conference in Ramallah yesterday.

The Big Question: Is al-Qa'ida really cash-strapped, and is the threat it poses diminishing?

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

UN to debate Goldstone report after Abbas U-turn

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Hopes that US President Barack Obama would breathe new life into a peace process with Israel have "evaporated" according to an internal document circulated within the Fatah faction led by President Mahmoud Abbas.

Blood, rage & history: The world's first terrorists

Monday, 12 October 2009

Johann Hari: We think of jihadism as a modern creation, but the 19th-century anarchists were equally deadly.

And the other Nobel Peace Prize nominees were...

Monday, 12 October 2009

Obama's surprise victory ended hopes for more than 200 proposed candidates. We detail six of the most inspirational

Clinton and Miliband hold talks on Afghanistan

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Britain and America are working closely to ensure their Afghanistan strategy is as "clear, as effective and as decisive as possible", David Miliband stressed today.