Some bad news for immigrants: The unemployment gap between immigrants and native-born citizens has expanded during the recession and will likely remain until long after the recession ends, according to a BBC World Service/Migration Policy Institute report released Thursday. This has impacted immigration levels in all five developed More…
BERLIN — President Obama’s push for additional economic stimulus is not just hitting a wall in Congress. The president has also been rebuffed by the largest European countries — with potentially profound consequences for the U.S. economy and Obama’s national agenda.
[Economy1] In the run-up to the G-20 summit in More…
One more thing about former MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller and her charges about being kept in the dark by the U.S. on torture. According to the Independent, Dame Eliza said that the Bush administration grew enamored of torture with the aid of a certain television show…
After a British court ruled that the U.K. government has to disclose sensitive information about how the United States tortured a British citizen named Binyam Mohamed whom the U.S. held as a terrorist for years, Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, released this statement:
The protection of confidential
There’s a big international conference in London beginning next Thursday to harmonize allied civilian efforts in Afghanistan. One thing to expect out of it: new “Afghan-led integration measures” to bring insurgents into line with the government, according to British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
Miliband is before the Senate Foreign Relations More…
The New York Times reports on a radio interview with U.K. Home Secretary Alan Johnson:
Mr. Johnson said Mr. Abdulmutallab’s application to renew his student visa was rejected in May after officials determined that the academic course he had given as his reason for returning to Britain was bogus.
The Supreme Court today issued a blow to victims of abuse by U.S. officials during the “war on terror.” The high court this morning refused to review a federal appeals court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit by four British citizens who claimed they were wrongly arrested More…
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary-general, said yesterday that he has received pledges from partner nations for an additional 5,000 troops in advance of tomorrow’s NATO foreign ministerial meeting in Brussels. He added that “several thousand” more may be possible. But if the ministerial concludes with the 5,000 troops More…
Reports are that at this week’s meeting of NATO foreign ministers, the Obama administration will press for the allies to contribute 10,000 additional troops to match the 30,000 or so American soldiers whose deployment President Obama is expected to announce on Tuesday evening. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary-general, has More…
A British High Court on Friday ordered that previously redacted text concerning the alleged torture of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed must be made public.
This is a breakthrough for Mohamed, because while he claims that he was tortured while detained in Pakistan and interrogated by U.S. More…
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