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THE impressive logistics of India’s national elections inspire considerable international coverage. This year, the process initiated last...
FOR the first two weeks of this month, the Western media’s main focus was on how Iran might react to an egregious Israeli provocation. On the first...
THE targeted slaughter last week of seven employees of World Central Kitchen (WCK) kicked off an international reaction that would not have occurred...
THE morning of April 4, 1979, lingers in the memory. I woke up to get ready for school, and found my mother red-eyed. Even before she uttered a word,...
IT took almost six months for the UN Security Council to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, after the US decided against kiboshing yet another...
A THUMPING majority for Vladimir Putin in his fifth bid for the Russian presidency was a foregone conclusion, even though its size surprised even...
THE notion that Britain’s royal family represents the superglue that keeps the kingdom united is a gross exaggeration, but the House of Windsor can...
ABOUT 10 days ago, a joint Palestinian-Israeli creative endeavour titled No Other Land, chronicling the struggle for survival in Masafer Yatta —...
LAST Sunday, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old senior airman in the US Air Force, set up a video stream and, outside the Israeli embassy in Washington,...
AT the time of writing, almost five days after the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was reported to have suddenly died in an Arctic penal...
THE initial reaction was shock as independents affiliated with the PTI emerged as the dominant force in the next parliament. It was, after all, widely...
RECENT events have made it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to take tomorrow’s election seriously. It’s not just the rat-a-tat sentencing...
ONCE the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague endorsed the substance of South Africa’s case against Israel (albeit not in its entirety)...
WHETHER he’s trying to crack a joke or pretending to be serious, Joe Biden’s octogenarian visage is permanently contorted into a grimace. That may...
AN intriguing triptych included in Iqbal’s second volume of verse, Baal-i-Jibreel, envisages Vladimir Lenin in the presence of God, explaining why...
ACROSS almost six decades of investigative journalism, John Pilger unsparingly torchlit many of what George W. Bush described as “the darkest...
AROUND 40 countries representing almost half the world’s population will either elect new rulers or endorse existing ones in the year ahead. This...
IT took several days of diplomatic negotiations for the Security Council to come up with a sufficiently bland Gaza resolution that the US would not...
IT took 28 years of UN-sponsored climate conferences for one of them to even acknowledge the primary source of the planet’s woes. That was enough...
“WE live in a world where they say we communicate more, but the world stayed silent when slave trade was making money/ The world stayed silent when...
NO one who lived anywhere in the world through the 1970s could ignore Henry Kissinger as he bestrode the world like a colossus, not so much as the...
WHO would have thought that Geert Wilders, one of the longest sitting members of the Dutch parliament, would one day be in a pole position to aspire...
THERE is a degree of irony — or déjà vu — in recent reports that putative US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr is losing some support...
AMID all the horrors on show as a consequence of Israel’s explicit determination to pulverise the Gaza Strip, nothing is quite as soul-searing as...
I WAS sufficiently intrigued by the preliminary hype to stay up late one night last week for a chance to listen to the latest, and supposedly last,...
BY 1983, it had been eight years since US troops had finally departed from Indochina. Much to the consternation of some in the...
SOMEONE encountering the Middle East conflict for the first time in the current pages of the Western media could be excused for assuming that...
LAST Saturday, a majority of Australian voters decided to disallow the descendants of their continent’s original inhabitants constitutional...
ISRAEL prides itself, not unreasonably, on its intelligence-gathering capabilities. This applies internationally, with Israeli apps offering the go-to...
EARLY last month, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg offered an extraordinary revelation at a meeting with European parliamentary committees....
IT seems likely at this juncture that the next presidential contest in the United States will once more pit Joe Biden against Donald Trump. Biden will...
TO paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one recently appointed senior cabinet minister could be construed as a misfortune; losing two seems like...
JUST a few days after the elected president of Chile, his close friend and comrade Salvador Allende, had met a violent death in his workplace, the man...