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    Saad Hariri suspended his resignation after returning to Beirut a week ago. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    In Lebanon, Zimbabwe & Egypt, a stormy time

    It has been a tumultuous week in a number of other respects, too.

    30 Nov 2017 2:55 AM IST

    Harare and Hariri have dominated the international news cycle in recent weeks. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    The Beirut gamble: Its real target is Tehran

    Saad Hariri tendered an unexpected resignation at an unlikely venue after having served for less than a year.

    23 Nov 2017 12:54 AM IST

    Vladimir LeninOpinion
    The spirit of 1917

    The revolution survived the efforts to re-verse it, even though a number of its initial achievements were subsequently...

    2 Nov 2017 12:21 AM IST

    Arthur BalfourOpinion
    Why celebrate the Balfour Declaration?

    The Zionist movement, headquartered in Berlin, attracted the support of only a small minority of European Jews at the...

    26 Oct 2017 3:55 AM IST

    Harvey Weinstein.Opinion
    Weinstein's sordid saga: Hollywood's watershed

    The casting couch has long been accepted as part of Hollywood culture, and all too often served as the butt of...

    19 Oct 2017 12:39 AM IST

    People attend an event paying tribute to Cuban Revolution hero Ernesto Che Guevara marking the 50th anniversary of his death in Santa Clara, Cuba. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Salute Che! 50 years on, the legend still endures

    The old man presiding over the ceremony in Santa Clara, meanwhile, was one of Che's closest comrades-in-arms in the...

    12 Oct 2017 12:28 AM IST

    Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont told a crowd of cheering supporters (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Hostility to referendums will worsen matters

    The Spanish state's reaction detracts from its moral authority.

    6 Oct 2017 1:02 AM IST

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Photo: AP)Opinion
    German reckoning

    Germany has been refreshingly upfront about facing up to its inglorious past.

    28 Sept 2017 12:41 AM IST

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Photo: AP)Opinion
    No end to the despair of Palestinians

    A US official clarified the comments did not signify a change in American policy.

    21 Sept 2017 12:50 AM IST

    Newly arrived Rohingya women wait for their turn to collect building material for their shelters distributed by aid agencies in Kutupalong refugee camp (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Rohingya: Myanmar's unpeople'

    The plight of the Rohingya has been compared with that of Bosnian Muslims and Rwandan Tutsis in the 1990s.

    14 Sept 2017 3:26 AM IST

    US President Donald TrumpOpinion
    When will the statues of Kim crumble?

    Whether or not there is another Korean war, it is more than likely most of these statues will crumble one day.

    7 Sept 2017 1:12 AM IST

    Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Of predatory gurus & mores of a subcontinent

    Gurmeet Singh's motivations in adding “Ram Rahimâ€to his name were presumably a great deal more mundane.

    31 Aug 2017 12:51 AM IST

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