Amnesty International issues urgent call to its 2.2 million members Amnesty International today issued an urgent action to its 2.2 million members on behalf of four Chadian opposition leaders arrested by security forces in N’Djamena on 3 February. http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17633

Martin Luther King Jnr – On the 40th Anniversary of his death "Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. " Dr. Martin Luther King became a civil rights activist early Continue Reading

Whitehall staff have been banned from taking laptops containing personal or unencrypted information outside of their government offices. Head of the civil service Sir Gus O’Donnell wrote to all government departments imposing the ban in the light of the latest data loss by the government. Defence secretary Des Browne yesterday Continue Reading

A police officer claimed last night he had been forced to bug conversations between a Muslim MP and a terror suspect. Mark Kearney, a former office with Thames Valley Police, said he had been put under "significant pressure" to record conversations between the pair at Woodhill Prison. In a statement Continue Reading

Middle East quartet envoy Tony Blair has said he believes that a peace deal between Israel and Palestine could "definitely" be reached this year. In an interview with the Times newspaper, the former prime minister said solving the longstanding confrontation would help boost moderate forces in the region and that Continue Reading

Major topics covered in the discussion included the agenda for the upcoming Bucharest summit, NATO operations in Afghanistan and Kosovo, enlargement, relations between NATO and the European Union, energy security, missile defence, cyber defence and other new security challenges.

Defence Secretary Des Browne today offered to host a conference of all five recognised nuclear weapon states to address the difficult technical challenges of verifying nuclear disarmament. He made this offer at a major speech to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday 5 February. Des Browne, Secretary of Continue Reading

1. HM Revenue & Custom (HMRC) Detection dogs were first introduced 30 years ago in 1978, and have been one of the most successful tools in protecting society from the dangers of illegal drugs reaching the general public. 2. The first dogs were used to find cannabis, but they are Continue Reading