A US judge has ordered three Russian spying suspects to be kept detained, saying she considered “the defendants at risk of flight”.

About 200 students staged a violent protest outside the British Embassy in Tehran on today, throwing rocks and firecrackers.

An explosion in the centre of one of Turkey’s most popular tourist resorts killed three people and injured at least 20 others today – less than a day after bomb attacks struck another tourist centre and an Istanbul neighbourhood.

IRISH aid worker Margaret Hassan, who was murdered in Iraq, died because the British Government refused to speak to her kidnappers, her family said yesterday.

The British Embassy in Jordan will reopen on Sunday after closing because of a threat of a terrorist attack, an embassy official said today.

POLICE broke up a demonstration yesterday against the dismissal of the outspoken British ambassador to Uzbekistan, detaining several civil rights activists demanding his return.

Sixty-four suspected mercenaries detained in Zimbabwe this week were hired to help overthrow the government in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea with the assistance of British, American, and Spanish intelligence agencies, the Zimbabwe government claimed.

A group calling itself “September 11” sent terror threats to the British High Commission and American and Australian embassies in New Zealand warning it had 55lbs of cyanide to use against US interests if Iraq was attacked, police said today.