Author: By Alan Jones, PA
Organisations including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament are staging the
protest at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, Berkshire.
Demonstrators are planning to sit down or lock themselves together to press
home their campaign against the Trident missile system being replaced.
Read more on CND plan nuclear weapons site blockade…
Author: By Geoff Meade, Press Associatio
As major rallies continued in Tehran on the 31st anniversary of the Iranian
revolution, the Prime Minister said the patience of the wider world was “not
inexhaustible” and the question of stepping up sanctions against the regime
had to be a consideration.
Read more on Iran could face tougher sanctions, warns Brown…
Author: By Jane Merrick
Mr Blair acknowledged that the Government should have made it clear that the claim that Saddam Hussein could launch weapons within 45 minutes referred to battlefield, and not ballistic, missiles. He also admitted that the intelligence evidence should have been produced directly from the Joint Intelligence Committee, rather than “presented” by Downing Street in the notorious September 2002 dossier.
Author: By Gavin Cordon, Press Association
In his evidence yesterday to the Iraq Inquiry, the former prime minister said
that many of the arguments which led him to confront Saddam Hussein now
applied to the regime in Tehran.
Author: By David McNeill in Tokyo
The unique horror which marked his life, and the dignified way he handled it, gave him special prominence. Lying in hospital in December, just days from dying of the cancer that finally claimed him this week, he received a distinguished visitor from overseas: Hollywood director James Cameron.
Author: Reuters
Medvedev said that Russia and the United States were close to a landmark deal
on cutting arsenals of Cold War nuclear weapons, but that Moscow would still
push ahead with the development of new strategic offensive weapons.
Author: By Charles Hutzler, AP
In a 40-minute speech today that ranged across the multitude of issues, the
president declared the United States a “nation of the Pacific. Asia and the
United States are not separated by this great ocean; we are bound by it.”
Author: By David McNeill in Tokyo
“As… the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon,” Barack Obama said that day in Prague, “the United States has a moral responsibility to act.” Mr Yamaguchi was elated. “I feel he is the only one we can now rely on the end these terrible weapons,” he said.
Read more on Hiroshima hails Barack, but he’s too busy to visit…
Author: By Andrew Woodcock, Press Association
Colonel Gaddafi accused the international community of “double standards”
because Israel is allowed to maintain a barely-hidden nuclear capability
while Iran comes under massive pressure not to develop its own.
Author: By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Speaking to reporters after an “excellent” 45-minute meeting at the State Department, Mr Hague said he stressed to Mrs Clinton that the Tories’ new partners in the European parliament, including Polish and Latvian parties, were not anti-Semitic, but “mainstream parties of the centre right”.
Read more on Hague tells Clinton not to fear Tories’ EU allies…
