Full Coverage: United Kingdom

27.12.2007 Intense diplomatic efforts are continuing in Afghanistan to prevent the expulsion of a senior UN official accused of engaging in talks with leaders of the Taliban.

26.12.2007

19.12.2007 Poor countries will be denied up to £170 million this Christmas by supermarkets who fail to pay developing country suppliers a fair price for imported groceries, according to researchers.

18.12.2007 About 60 per cent of annual turnover in UK retailing occurs during the Christmas period. A new briefing, The Carbon Cost of Christmas, exposes some of the biggest festival 'No-nos' followed by some big Christmas ‘Yes-yeses'.

17.12.2007 The City of London is criticised for paying out million of pounds in Christmas bonuses while denying many of the world's poorest countries the tax owed by British companies.

14.12.2007 Some 2,000 children pass through UK holding centres each year. Their imprisonment breaches a key UN Convention, says Alice O'Keeffe.
From New Statesman

10.12.2007 Shenanigans at the UN climate change conference in Bali: Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley - a British climate sceptic who has already presented "The IPCC's Scientific Fraud" at one of the conference's many side-events - was called out of a room in which he was speaking and told he would be "thrown out by security" if he continued to hold press briefings within the conference compound. As usual these days, the confrontation has been captured on YouTube (UNmenace1. mov and UNmenace2.mov).
Tuesday, Bali: Monckton strikes again. In a nearby hotel - not the UN conference centre - he is due to be part of a panel that will speak after a screening of the "anti" TV programme The Great Global Warming Swindle.

04.12.2007 New evidence shows a growing tide of human rights abuses perpetrated by private armies in Iraq as the UK government spends millions of pounds on unregulated mercenaries.