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    Benazir BhuttoOpinion
    Did the nuke question seal Benazir's fate a decade ago?

    Benazir and the Pakistan People's Party had seldom been reticent about highlighting her dad's status as the father of...

    8 March 2018 3:35 AM IST

    Gun violence, which kills about 33,000 people per year in the United States, is a public health issue. (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    The problem of guns in the US: Inaction rules

    In many parts of the US you are legally entitled to own a firearm three years before you can legitimately buy a beer.

    1 March 2018 7:31 AM IST

    South African President Jacob Zuma. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Ramaphosa brings hope of real change in Pretoria

    The ANC in fact caved in to the demands of international capitalism even before it was permitted into the portals of...

    22 Feb 2018 2:00 AM IST

    1,218 Intel Shooting Star drones lit up the sky for the PyeongChang 2018 Opening Ceremony, setting a new Guinness World Records title for the most drones flown simultaneously.Opinion
    Pyeongchang winter thaw raises hopes

    Will history repeat itself? It would be unrealistic to assume otherwise, but downright cynical to insist that it must be...

    15 Feb 2018 12:29 AM IST

    Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gestures as he talks to members of the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP), in Ankara, Turkey. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Kurds being crushed as US, Russia look the other way

    Never mind that the Turkish supremo did his best to thwart the Kurdish-led defence of Kobani against an IS assault.

    8 Feb 2018 12:40 AM IST

    Donald TrumpOpinion
    America First' isn't a Trump innovation

    The Tet Offensive demonstrated that the war was unwinnable.

    3 Feb 2018 12:13 AM IST

    Russian President Vladimir PutinOpinion
    Russians can't match US skill in subverting democracy

    It has been alleged that Vladimir Putin was personally overseeing the effort to empower Trump.

    25 Jan 2018 4:07 AM IST

    Bob Dylans first album after being awarded the Nobel Prize released on 31 March. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    The making of a radical in America

    A more or less complete recording of both concerts, issued late last year by the German record label Bear Family.

    18 Jan 2018 1:01 PM IST

    US President Donald TrumpOpinion
    Trump's raj: A cartoon or reality show?

    No one needs to read Wolff's book to realise that the President is as far from being a genius as any of his...

    11 Jan 2018 12:26 AM IST

    Irans supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Opinion
    Discontent will not die out in Iran

    North Korea has absorbed the lessons of the fatal blows to the regimes of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi.

    4 Jan 2018 3:30 AM IST

    In the case of her father three decades earlier, Benazir Bhuttos was not a political career that deserved to end this way.Opinion
    A Pakistani tragedy

    The BBC World Service has lately been heavily promoting a podcast titled The Assassination.

    28 Dec 2017 12:35 AM IST

    Ali Abdullah Saleh survived several assassination attempts during his decades at the helm in Yemen, but the former Presidents luck ran out on Monday. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Yemen's Saleh paid back for his misdeeds

    Saleh was no stranger to switching sides. In fact, it was something of a habit with him.

    7 Dec 2017 6:38 AM IST

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