When Fernando Schnabl kissed his wife, Christine, and their five-year-old son, Philipe, goodbye in Rio de Janeiro on the evening of May 31 this year, he expected to see them the next morning in Paris. He never did. Four hours out of Rio, Air France ...
Sir Mark Thatcher became an informer to the South African secret services in an attempt to avoid prosecution for his role in a botched coup in central Africa. Thatcher met South African intelligence officials in 2004 to discuss the attempted coup ...
IN the summer of 2004, Sir Mark Thatcher returned home to South Africa as a wanted man. As he sauntered through customs in Cape Town, he was taken aside by an official and told the Scorpions, one of the country’s elite police units, wanted to talk ...
FOR two hours yesterday, grieving Monaco, its pink and cream-washed houses decked in flags of mourning and its narrow streets eerily silent, became the undisputed capital of the world. The requiem mass said for Princess Grace, who died from a stroke ...
Amid grim reports of more dead British soldiers, a spreading Taliban insurgency and a presidential election marred by vote-rigging, one piece of good news has come out of Afghanistan recently. Poppy cultivation and opium production declined ...
It is one of the harsh realities of foreign reporting that sometimes a price has to be paid. Editors frequently caution their journalists not to take “unnecessary risks” in a war zone, while at the same time — rightly — demanding the story. Inevitably, ...
One minute there was total silence in the darkness. Then, faint at first, swelling louder, came the unmistakable thwack of rotorblades as the helicopters approached their target. The room in northern Afghanistan where the two hostages were held ...
In the southern Afghan district of Shorabak, the tribesmen gathered shortly before last month’s presidential election to discuss which candidate they would back. After a debate they chose to endorse Abdullah Abdullah, President Hamid Karzai’s ...
Influential voices in America are warning Barack Obama that he is in danger of sliding into a Vietnam-style quagmire in Afghanistan that could bog down his presidency just as Vietnam ruined Lyndon Johnson’s. In the 1960s, Johnson believed he had no ...
EXPLOSIVE details have emerged of an encounter between Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. At one point the Afghan president whipped off his distinctive karakul sheepskin hat and ...
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