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Why celebrate the Balfour Declaration?

The Zionist movement, headquartered in Berlin, attracted the support of only a small minority of European Jews at the...

26 Oct 2017 2:12 AM IST

Harvey Weinstein.

Weinstein's sordid saga: Hollywood's watershed

The casting couch has long been accepted as part of Hollywood culture, and all too often served as the butt of...

19 Oct 2017 3:05 AM IST

People wave pictures at an event paying tribute to Cuban Revolution hero Ernesto Che Guevara marking the 50th anniversary of his death in Santa Clara, Cuba. (Photo: AP)

Salute Che! 50 years on, the legend still endures

The official commemorations in recent days in the Cuban city of Santa Clara and Vallegrande in Bolivia come as no...

12 Oct 2017 12:11 AM IST

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont told a crowd of cheering supporters (Photo: AFP)

Hostile reaction to referendums will worsen matters

The Spanish state's reaction detracts from its moral authority.

6 Oct 2017 1:19 AM IST

German Chancellor and candidate of the Christian Democratic Union for the upcoming election Angela Merkel delivers a speech in Dortmund. (Photo: AP)

German reckoning

It poses a challenge, though, for Angela Merkel, whose status as chancellor remains unchallenged, but who is now obliged...

28 Sept 2017 6:29 AM IST

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. (Photo: AP)

No end to the despair of Palestinians

Whether many Gazans will vote for Fatah, if the fresh elections proposed by Hamas go ahead, remains to be seen.

21 Sept 2017 12:29 AM IST

Aung San Suu Kyi

Rohingya: Myanmar's unpeople'

Suu Kyi is certainly not the only leader who can be accused of hypocrisy.

14 Sept 2017 2:09 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watches the test launch of solid fuel Pukguksong-2, a medium-to-long range ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Photo: AP)

Monumental follies: When will statues of Kim crumble?

Pyongyang, meanwhile, does not restrict its ambitions to nuclear and missile technologies.

7 Sept 2017 12:23 AM IST

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, 50, had been convicted on Friday of raping the two women at the sprawling headquarters of his hugely popular Dera Sacha Sauda sect in Haryana, in a case dating back more than 15 years. (Photo: AFP/File)

Of predatory gurus & the mores of a subcontinent

Gurmeet Singh's motivations in adding Ram Rahim to his name were presumably a great deal more mundane.

31 Aug 2017 12:45 AM IST

Emergency workers stand on a blocked street in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo: AP)

Barcelona to Virgina, extremism holds sway

The American Civil War ended in 1865, but the struggle to clarify its legacy goes on.

24 Aug 2017 6:37 AM IST

Anti-government demonstrators shout slogans against Venezuelas President Nicolas Maduro during a protest against him in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo: AP)

The crisis in Venezuela: Will Chavez's reforms last?

The crisis, signified by severe shortages and rampaging inflation, isn't exactly of Maduro's making.

17 Aug 2017 12:17 AM IST

India and Pakistan flag. (Representational Image)

70-yr itch as 2 nations look back to 1947

Pakistan's trajectory was delineated long ago. That is not the only example, though, of a lack of foresight.

10 Aug 2017 12:19 AM IST