Guardian has “held back a great deal” of leaked data, editor says August 20, 2013 Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian newspaper, has said he has "held back a great deal" of information about the Edward Snowden case out of concern for the consequences for national security. Speaking on BBC Radio 4 today, Rusbridger said that there is a problem when you "start conflating journalism and terrorism". This follows the [...]
Hopes for Japan-Russia peace deal August 19, 2013 The deputy foreign ministers of Japan and Russia are meeting in Moscow today to strengthen cooperative ties in a further step towards resolving a territorial dispute which stopped them from signing a peace treaty after World War II. The meeting between Shinsuke Sugiyama and Igor Morgulov follows an agreement between Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe [...]
Sport Comment: It’s worth walking to Glasgow for glimpse of a sprint superstar August 18, 2013 GIVEN events at Emirates Stadium on Saturday, and my prediction last Monday that Arsenal would win the Premier League this season, you may be inclined to give this column a miss this week on the grounds that the writer clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It is a marathon not a sprint, remember; still [...]
An era-spanning masterpiece August 15, 2013 THEATRE THE PRIDE Trafalgar Studios | By Xenobe Purvis Four Stars ALEXI Kaye Campbell’s award-winning The Pride gets a powerful revival as part of Jamie Lloyd’s Trafalgar Transformed season at Trafalgar Studios. The play’s protagonists Oliver, Philip and Sylvia exist in two time periods, the 1950s and now, and respond to the social pressures encountered [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 12 August 2013 August 11, 2013 FINANCIAL TIMES Air alliances rule out Heathrow move The world’s biggest airlines have ruled out moving from Heathrow to another UK airport, bolstering the chances of a highly contentious third runway being built at Europe’s busiest hub. All three global airline alliances have said they want to stay, even though some options being considered by [...]
First Chinese merchant ship sails for Europe through Arctic Ocean August 11, 2013 CHINESE media have announced that a cargo ship is travelling to Europe through the Northeast Passage in the Arctic Ocean, a much shorter trade route, for the first time. The vessel, from Cosco Shipping, is predicted to arrive at the Bering Strait in two weeks, before travelling westward over Russia, and towards Europe. The group [...]
Worst week ever for US Treasuries August 9, 2013 US Treasuries had their worst week ever on Wednesday as investors pulled out a record $4bn from bond funds, equivalent to 1.3 per cent of assets under management (AUM). Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett called it the “Great Rotation”, referring to the expectation that record-low bond yields will push investors [...]
OECD warns of BRIC slowdown as other major economies recover August 8, 2013 The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has warned of a slowdown in large emerging economises, but said it expects improvement in most other major countries (release). The OECD’s composite leading indicators (CLIs) for the US and the UK point to economic growth firming, and a pick up in growth in the Eurozone as [...]
Obama cancels meeting with Russian president amid tensions regarding Snowden and human rights August 7, 2013 US president Barack Obama has cancelled meetings with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow amid tensions over former National Security Agency IT contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden. The meetings had been scheduled for September, but it now appears they will not be going ahead. A Kremlin aide said Obama's decision was "disappointing". Russia has [...]
Snowden gets Russian asylum August 1, 2013 Russia granted American fugitive Edward Snowden a year’s asylum yesterday, allowing the former US spy agency contractor to slip quietly out of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport after more than five weeks in limbo but angering the United States. The White House, which wants Snowden to face trial in the US, signaled that President Barack Obama might [...]