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    China on Saturday deployed its troops in Hong Kong for the first time since the unprecedented pro-democracy protests began in the former British colony more than five months ago over a proposed extradition law, with soldiers in plain clothes clearing the roadblocks. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Hong Kong’s authorities have dug themselves a hole and there’s no...

    Not surprisingly, the extradition bill was widely perceived as a further dilution of that promised autonomy.

    21 Nov 2019 12:36 AM IST

    Evo Morales.Opinion
    After the coup, future unclear: Will Bolivia head for polls?

    The mobilisations began shortly after the October 20 presidential poll.

    15 Nov 2019 12:34 AM IST

    Winston Churchill (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Thirty years after fall of Berlin Wall, democracy in Europe is in...

    The message from Moscow that autumn was clear: the Eastern European regimes propped up by the USSR were on their own.

    7 Nov 2019 4:14 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump. (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    Good riddance to ‘Caliph’, but no need to take Trump seriously

    The US congressional Democratic leadership, meanwhile, is livid that it was even further out of the loop than Moscow.

    31 Oct 2019 12:57 AM IST

    Lebanon isnt the only Middle Eastern country, though, where perceptions of corruption at the highest level have lately led to outrage on the streets. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)Opinion
    Lessons from Lebanon, Chile: Hard to tell the last straw

    The lingua franca of the neoliberal upper crust, however, ‘reform’ all too often implies measures that target the...

    24 Oct 2019 12:46 AM IST

    Better not trust capitalists, sign up for ‘green army’ insteadOpinion
    Better not trust capitalists, sign up for ‘green army’ instead

    The Thunberg pater familias was correct in identifying such words as potentially problematic.

    18 Oct 2019 12:55 AM IST

    Donald Trump’s tweet not out of line with US role in Middle EastOpinion
    Donald Trump’s tweet not out of line with US role in Middle East

    It would be strange if there weren’t links between the unfairly derided PKK and the freshly beleaguered SDF.

    10 Oct 2019 12:09 AM IST

    Why MBS got off lightly after brutal murder of KhashoggiOpinion
    Why MBS got off lightly after brutal murder of Khashoggi

    Mohammed bin Salman, meanwhile, continues to warn the West that if Iran is not restrained, oil prices could go through...

    3 Oct 2019 2:18 AM IST

    Brexit blues: UK’s future is uncertain and unwritten, given the acrimony todayOpinion
    Brexit blues: UK’s future is uncertain and unwritten, given the...

    On the other hand, culturally and economically, Britain was hardly cut off from the Continent in the decades leading up...

    26 Sept 2019 2:17 AM IST

    Oilfield attacks are a warning to Saudis over Yemen policyOpinion
    Oilfield attacks are a warning to Saudis over Yemen policy

    The implication was that the House of Saud just had to give the word for its saviour-in-chief to launch retaliatory...

    19 Sept 2019 2:02 AM IST

    Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam peaceful, but is like ChinaOpinion
    Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam peaceful, but is like China

    The multitude determined to give them a rousing welcome consisted mainly of students, political activists and trade...

    5 Sept 2019 1:13 AM IST

    Our indifference to voting would be an outrage for the agitators of the pastOpinion
    Our indifference to voting would be an outrage for the agitators of...

    The notion that your vote does not really make a difference has spilled over into the 21st century from the 20th, rather...

    22 Aug 2019 7:35 AM IST

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