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Netanyahu running out of options
Six Jewish hostages were murdered by Hamas last week just before the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) reached them, and a controversy has erupted in Israel about whether Prime Minister Binyamin...
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Third time is not lucky for nationalists
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Third time is not lucky for nationalists
With the sole exception of the 50 people on Pitcairn Island, the United Kingdom (once known as the British Empire) liquidated its holdings in the Pacific Ocean long ago.
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Struggle against the monkey king
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Struggle against the monkey king
When you find yourself shouting at the television screen, you know it’s time to take a break.
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The space race and the very precious life of Elon
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The space race and the very precious life of Elon
Elon Musk is heading for a crash.
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Thailand: bring up the reserves
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Thailand: bring up the reserves
"I have consulted with my father on all issues, whether on private matters or about work, since I was young," said Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
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Rumours of ceasefires and the facts of incursions
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Rumours of ceasefires and the facts of incursions
Ukraine's major cross-border attack into the Kursk region of Russia last week has triggered the usual claims and counter-claims.
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They seek him here, they seek him there — and there he was
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They seek him here, they seek him there — and there he was
Carles Puigdemont, the self-exiled leader of the Catalan separatist movement, aspires to become the new Scarlet Pimpernel.
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We have entered ‘uncharted territory’
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We have entered ‘uncharted territory’
When you spend four years writing a book on climate change, you get to know most of the leading players. I have never seen them so dismayed.
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Collateral damage, martyrdom continues unabated in Gaza
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Collateral damage, martyrdom continues unabated in Gaza
The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip since October’s Hamas attacks on Israeli settlements will reach 40,000 people in the next week or so — it’s back up to about 50-100 civilian dead per day.
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The last stand of American Christians
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The last stand of American Christians
The past week has been a roller-coaster ride for Donald Trump.
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Iran’s theocracy starting to erode
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Iran’s theocracy starting to erode
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iranian TV just before the second round of voting on Sunday ‘‘I have heard that people’s zeal and interest is higher than in the first round [of Iran’s presidential election]."
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Macron isn’t stupid: France won’t head right
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Macron isn’t stupid: France won’t head right
Nothing else in France looks like the 1930s, so why should fascism?
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Enormous changes at the last minute
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Enormous changes at the last minute
By Friday we will know the outcome of the British election.
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Second chance for South Africa?
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Second chance for South Africa?
Cyril Ramaphosa is the president of South Africa again, but everything else is different.
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Stop ‘Munich’ talk — a great war is not coming
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Stop ‘Munich’ talk — a great war is not coming
Scarcely a week passes without some media pundit or attention-seeking historian warning that a great war is nigh.
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Macron’s strategy: hit and hope
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Macron’s strategy: hit and hope
Even before the final results were in from all of the 27 European Union countries that voted in the EU elections last weekend, President Emmanuel Macron had called national elections in France for...
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This time, not even close to 400
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This time, not even close to 400
"Pride goeth before a fall", says the Old Testament, so India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was just begging for humiliation. It duly arrived.
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Is it crunch time for Netanyahu?
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Is it crunch time for Netanyahu?
It has not been a good week for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyhu, chief decision-maker in the war in the Gaza Strip that has already cost at least 35,000 civilian deaths.
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Small assassination attempt in Slovakia; not many hurt
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Small assassination attempt in Slovakia; not many hurt
Madeleine Albright, the former US Secretary of State, once called Slovakia "the black hole at the heart of Europe," which seems a harsh judgement on five million Slovaks.
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ANC tattered, but too early to write off South Africa
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ANC tattered, but too early to write off South Africa
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born," wrote Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in 1929.