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Xi and Putin prepare for World War III

Those close to the Lord Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, would like him to emerge as the second UK Prime...

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The BBC is ‘independent’. Really?

Set up as the Voice of Empire in 1927, the BBC has from the start been kept going by the...

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Blinken-Lavrov G20 meeting a welcome development

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken acted correctly in requesting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for a face to face...

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Benvenuta to India, Primo Ministro Meloni

Signora Georgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, arrives in a country where several of the beliefs and practices of her...

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No reverse gear for Putin or Xi

The problem with think-tankers, policymakers and academics is that there is no reverse gear where their thinking is concerned. Just...

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Uniform Civil Code is justice, not ‘hate’

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) claims to speak on behalf of what it terms the “personal law”...

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PAKISTAN ARMY’S NUCLEAR BLUFF

Way back in 2001-02, wealthy ladies in the US and the UK who were in their sunset years got subjected...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with U.S. President Joe Biden at Quad Summit

Not bullets, street power, but the vote

Just as it is wrong to be selective about terror, it is incorrect to cherry-pick where attacks on the results...

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The progressive right

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat, in a recent interview, spoke of something that would have broken a particular...

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Dr Tedros hums the same 2020 tune on Covid-19

Did anyone believe that competence was needed for success? Those with such a delusion must have shed it when hearing...

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G-20 can rescue the world from disaster

No institution is perfect, but some are more suited than others to handle a situation that is ongoing. Old ways...

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Democracies work, dictatorships don’t

A standard trope in autocracies is that “democracies cannot deliver”, and that only autocracies are able to ensure material if...

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Nadav Lapid, get real on Kashmir

The decision-makers who chose an obscure Israeli filmmaker as the head of the international jury at the 2022 International Film...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly

Ensure UNGA, UNSC vote on India joining the P-5

Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar have been candid about the inability of the United...

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$100bn for Ukraine, peanuts for poor nations

The all-consuming greed of that genus of homo sapiens that gets into paroxysms of joy the more zeroes get added...