Overseas news archive

05.09.2008 Asbestos, now banned in the EU, kills up to 4,000 people a year in the UK alone. In this exclusive New Statesman report, Ed Howker reveals how the industry hid the truth for decades and why the death toll will certainly continue to rise.

05.09.2008 Both Russia and the West are in the wrong in the Russian-Georgian-Osettian situation, says Jonathan Power.

04.09.2008 By refusing to move on from its outdated approach to agriculture, India is condemning farmers to misery and impoverishing its own citizens, says Salil Tripathi.

04.09.2008 By remaining firmly within a conventional military mindset, the anti-government LTTE movement in Sri Lanka may have missed – for good – an opportunity to make substantive political gains.

02.09.2008 Will GM technology feed the world - or destroy farming, and human health, in the name of corporate profit? How can we tell, asks Colin Tudge, when the science is up for sale?