Volker Turk, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights, warns that ‘children are dying’ as a result of US oil blockade. Volker Turk, the high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, has issued some of his harshest criticism yet of the recent sanctions the United States has imposed on»»»

The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, it has been reported. US officials are believed to have drawn up a proposal to bypass the UK and make their own deal to take control of Diego Garcia, the report said. Britain had planned to pass the Indian Ocean archipe»»»