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Bernie Sanders (Photo: AP)

Young, female, articulate: The tribe taking up the Left baton

That remains extremely unlikely, but no one can seriously claim that they haven't made a difference.

16 May 2019 2:53 AM IST

The court had been investigating opposition leader Juan Guaido for usurping the presidents powers. (Photo: AFP)

US-sponsored coup a flop, Venezuela will chart its course

The transmitted images were framed in such a way as to disguise the paucity of the personnel.

9 May 2019 12:05 AM IST

Pete Seeger (Photo: AP/File)

Seeger's legacy of song and struggle is now a century old

The Torn Flag isn't among Pete Seeger's particularly memorable tracks.

2 May 2019 1:24 AM IST

The minister said that the security services believe that Christchurch attacks prompted the terrorists to hit on Easter maintaining that the attacks were being planned for quite some time. (Photo: AP)

Lanka had no Christchurch linkage, so why was it targeted?

Sri Lanka has requested, and been offered, international help in investigating the atrocities.

25 April 2019 12:14 AM IST

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. (Photo: AP)

After elections in Israel, future seems bleaker for Palestinians

It is often said that the ability to indict a sitting PM elevates Israel above other semi-democracies in West Asia, such...

18 April 2019 12:17 AM IST

Andr©s Manuel L³pez Obrador (Photo: AP)

Can Mexico's Amlo deliver what Zapata had died for?

The movement took its name from a key figure in the revolutionary tumult that consumed Mexico in the second decade of...

11 April 2019 5:22 AM IST

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Photo: Dawn)

Zulfikar had left behind a legacy of lost opportunities

There can be little doubt that the manner in which the PPP approached the 1977 election was profoundly problematic.

4 April 2019 12:05 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)

Every putative Brexit solution has problems attached to it

May hesitated to put her deal to a parliamentary vote, and when she did it went down to the largest defeat for a govt...

28 March 2019 12:16 AM IST

At least 49 were killed and 20 were injured after a gunman opened fire on Friday prayers at a mosque in New Zealand killing many worshippers and forcing the city of Christchurch into lockdown as police launched a massive manhunt. (Photo: File)

Islamophobic terror as vile as jihad, don't underplay it

In Australia, though, efforts are already afoot to preserve the scope for Islamophobia, which is an even bigger trend...

21 March 2019 1:50 AM IST

Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Photo: AP)

Algeria govt has a lot to answer for

A long civil war followed, a devastating contest for ascendancy between Islamist insurgents and the state in which...

14 March 2019 12:38 AM IST

Vladimir Lenin (Photo: AP)

Dream of world Communism: Simply a fantasy a century back?

The founding congress of the Third International almost didn't achieve its objective, though.

7 March 2019 1:18 AM IST

Britains Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (Photo: AP)

Corbyn biases, anti-Semitism behind UK Labour exodus

Jeremy Corbyn's elevation to party leader was greeted with horror by some of those familiar with his empathy for the...

28 Feb 2019 2:23 AM IST