Campaign to put the Modi genie in bottle Another big battle for Gujarat is around the corner. In about four months time from now, the state, firmly in the grips of Narendra Modi for over six years, will go in for fresh assembly elections...
Khartoum is no friend The decision of the UN Security Council (UNSC) to authorise the deployment of a new peacekeeping force of 20,000 troops in Darfur is a positive step forward after four years of lethal inaction by the international community...
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Cuba
Hope in the air It was July 31 last year that a sick Fidel Castro issued a proclamation naming his younger brother Raul as acting head of state...
Unity in diversity... Delegates of the Women’s International Solidarity Affair in the Philippines, their faces colourfully painted, pose for photographers during a conference in Quezon City, Manila, on Sunday. AP
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