The largest arms deal in UK history, known as Al-Yamamah, which was agreed in 1985, involved at least £6 billion of corrupt commissions covered up by Britain for decades.
The UK government has been circulating a discussion paper to EU member states in Brussels in yet another attempt to arm terrorists fighting the popular government of president Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Russia and the United States have agreed to find a political solution to the crisis that hit Syria since 2011.
Two rockets were on Monday fired at a Russian passenger plane carrying holidaymakers as it flew over Syria, a news report said.
Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned against the repetition of Iraq scenario in Syria, in which the Western powers are allegedly seeking weapons of mass destruction in the war-torn Arab country.
The European Union says Iran’s nuclear energy program has been among the “strategic” issues on the agenda of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton during her visit to China.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi says the chemical weapons used by terrorist groups in Khan al-Assal in Aleppo countryside may have been arrived from Turkey, dismissing the Western allegations that the Syrian army used chemical weapons in other areas as not credible.
Spanish police clashed with people protesting against the government's austerity policies, arresting a number of them.
The British government has launched a scaremongering campaign similar to what it did prior to joining U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq to intervene in Syria militarily.
Spain's unemployment rate has risen to a new record of 27.2 percent of the workforce in the first quarter of 2013, official figures show.