Gordon Brown offered today to send additional British troops to Afghanistan to provide security during the forthcoming presidential election.

Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of 800 to 900 people in Strasbourg tonight as the French city prepared for the arrival of world leaders for the 60th anniversary Nato summit.

The US is committed to sending "many more" troops to the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, defence secretary Robert Gates announced today.

BERTIE AHERN undoubtedly announced his departure from office slightly embittered by the fact that the media has largely ignored his achievements to focus on his finances.

Romania has launched a crackdown on stray dogs and wild foxes amid fears they may bite guests at its Nato summit which began today.

The Vatican today sought to play down suggestions that Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was snubbing Pope Benedict XVI by attending a Nato meeting during the pontiff’s upcoming visit to the predominantly Muslim country.

Turkish officials today quickly denied a television report that a suspected terrorist and three others were injured in a bomb explosion, saying instead that a Turkish tourist had been killed in a gas explosion in southern Turkey.

ON the eve of the EU-US summit in Dromoland Castle, EU President Pat Cox has asked the courts to annul the agreement that gives US authorities data on all airline passengers from the EU.

Europe’s leaders will meet in Brussels for dinner next week on the way back from the NATO summit in Istanbul – but only if there is a consensus by then on who should be the next president of the European Commission.

Bulgaria’s intelligence chief says he is taking seriously indications that terrorists may target the Nato summit in Istanbul next week and the August Olympics in Athens.

Turkey claimed today it had foiled a plot by al-Qaida linked militants to launch a bomb attack on a Nato summit in Istanbul next month that Tony Blair and George Bush are to attend.

Turkish police have arrested 25 members of an al-Qaida linked group suspected of planning to bomb a Nato summit due to be attended by Tony Blair and George Bush next month.

Turkish police have arrested more than 20 members of an al-Qaida linked group suspected of planning to bomb a Nato summit due to be attended by Tony Blair and George Bush next month.

Turkish police have arrested 16 suspected al-Qaida linked militants believed to have been planning a bomb attack during a NATO summit in Istanbul in June.

An aide to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien has quit following an outcry over reports she privately called US President George Bush a “moron”.