Illusion Of A Good War For Afghans, six years after they were supposed to have been liberated, life is getting worse. As the International Committee of the Red Cross reported two months ago, the humanitarian situation is deteriorating and civilians are suffering horribly from growing insecurity and violence in an increasingly dirty war.
Growth: Its meaning The poor labouring masses whose lands, forests and water resources have been usurped and who have toiled on the projects contributing to growth, have been denied not only in reality but even at the level of stated objectives and yardsticks minimum basic human needs...
FRANCE
Sarkozys new order Nicolas Sarkozy, the neophyte French president is already likened to Napoleon Bonaparte. Set aside visions of Sarko invading Egypt or retreating from Moscow, and you get to the kernel of truth in this comparison: He wants to trash the old order...
All for the liberated souls... A Taoist priest tries to 'put the soul' of a child by a charm during the ghost month in Taipei Xingtian
Temple, on Monday, in Taiwan. Chinese traditionally celebrate the Ghost Month, believing that ghosts and spirits come out
from the lower world.AP
Are the Left parties justified in stalling the Indo-US nuclear deal after it was “signed and sealed,” as claimed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh? What is the possible way out of the political impasse?. Readers can express their opinion in 100 words.
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