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Britain's Prime Minister has defended his country's role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, in his evidence to a major inquiry into the war. Key witnesses accuse Gordon Brown, who was then the Treasury Chief, of cutting defence spending after the invasion, leaving troops without adequate equipment to fight.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced plans today to stop the issue of arrest warrants for foreign officials such as Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and other Israeli war criminals who were forced to cancel planned trips to London after arrest warrants were issued against them. Under Brown’s proposals, the Crown Prosecution Service will take over responsibility for prosecuting war crimes and other violations of international law. Currently magistrates have to consider the case for an arrest warrant to be issued.

Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's Moscow-backed president, is reconstructing the country with billions of dollars in aid from the Kremlin. But human rights groups accuse Kadyrov of creating a totalitarian state within a state where officials allegedly use kidnapping, torture and extrajudicial killings against opponents of his government and political observers say his methods are fuelling a simmering Islamic insurgency. So, is Chechnya heading toward another conflict and what impact will this have on Russia's stability?

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian-Serb wartime leader, stood defiant as his trial at the Hague resumed on Monday. Karadzic faces a number of charges in connection to the war in the Balkans in the early 1990s and could face life imprisonment if convicted. Is this trial politically motivated? And could its outcome strengthen the notion of accountability worldwide?

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian-Serb wartime leader, stood defiant as his trial at the Hague resumed on Monday. Karadzic faces a number of charges in connection to the war in the Balkans in the early 1990s and could face life imprisonment if convicted. Is this trial politically motivated? And could its outcome strengthen the notion of accountability worldwide?

In the early months of 2003, just prior to the illegal invasion of Iraq, and working in conjunction with a London-based freelance journalist, who had thoroughly double-checked exposures published by the Scottish 'Sunday Herald' newspaper, I publicised details of a child-sex ring linked to senior ministers within the Blair government.

Dr. Norman Finkelstein wrote several books in the field Israel/Palestine/ Holocaust and is one of the most sagacious analysts of our time. Similar to Professor Ilan Pappe, he formulates sharp criticism in respect to past and presence of the State of Israel, and both use very rational argumentations and are reliable researchers. Especially since the mass murders in Jenin and in Gaza, these two men and many other Jews (also in Germany) speak out, because they do not want to be taken in for violent purposes by a state that arrogates to speak and act in the name of all Jews.

The Rageh Omaar Report is a new series of one-hour, monthly investigative documentaries in which award-winning correspondent Rageh Omaar reports on the world's most important current affairs stories. The first edition of the programme, The Secret Life of Radovan Karadzic, airs ahead of the imminent resumption of Karadzic's trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Rageh Omaar travels to Serbia and Bosnia to investigate the decade-long period the former president of the Republika Srpska spent in hiding and examines his legacy in present-day Bosnia and beyond.

While focusing on issues the mainstream media ignores and whilst digging for information the Government would rather you didn’t know, journalist Amina Taylor, searches for the truth behind the headlines of the most important stories in the UK.

Viktor Yanukovych's victory in the February 7 Ukrainian presidential elections is the final nail in the coffin of the color-coded revolutions so beloved by the Western foreign policy establishment. Seems like the West's Orange fever is slowly ebbing out and a more realistic assessment of Ukrainian politics is setting in.