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Armenias president Serzh Sargsyan

Malaysia and Armenia offer lessons for all

During the second vote, there were an estimated 250,000 people in the square and streets outside Parliament, awaiting...

24 May 2018 2:05 AM IST

Donald Trump shows a signed Presidential Memorandum on the Iran nuclear deal on May 8 in Washington. (Photo: AP)

Avoid a war with Iran, it will not spare any country

What also matters is what Trump hears from some of his advisers, his favourite news outlet and his biggest donors.

17 May 2018 1:52 AM IST

French President-elect Emmanuel Macron (Photo: AP)

In France, the spirit of revolt seems to have echoes of 1968

There is a temptation to perceive in this spirit of revolt echoes of May 1968.

10 May 2018 12:53 AM IST

200 yrs later, Karl Marx is still relevant

Karl Marx was a little-known Communist by the name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

3 May 2018 12:22 AM IST

Trump said that CIA director Mike Pompeo and Kim got along really well in their recent secret meeting. (Photo: AP)

All eyes on Trump-Kim meeting that looms ahead

Apart from their distinctively eccentric hairstyles, one thing Kim and Trump clearly have in common is their...

26 April 2018 2:30 AM IST

President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview earlier this year that the alleged April attack was 100 percent fabrication used to justify a US air strike. (Photo: AP)

If Iran-Israel rift escalates, it may engulf entire region

The US and its pair of European acolytes went out of their way to avoid direct injury to Russian or Iranian forces.

19 April 2018 2:19 AM IST

Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader

Anti-Semitism row, 'spying' claims fail to silence Corbyn

The ideological divide remained unbridged, though, and the tendency to latch on to smear campaigns undiminished.

12 April 2018 5:17 AM IST

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., center, receives applause after finishing a speech to the joint session of the Massachusetts Legislature in Boston, the day before he led a civil rights march to Boston Common. Kings final speech before his 1968 assassination will be read aloud 50 years later on Monday, April 2, 2018, in downtown Boston. (Photo: AP)

Dr King's legacy goes far beyond civil rights; his spirit lives on

A speech by King at a local church less than 24 hours earlier was in retrospect interpreted by some as premonitory.

5 April 2018 6:08 AM IST

The communication is in line with the decision announced by President Donald Trump recently, which was one of his key electoral promises. (Photo: AP)

It's scary: Bolton may now unleash global havoc

Colin Powell, Bush's initial secretary of state, considered Bolton a spy for vice-president Cheney in the state...

29 March 2018 1:23 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

Spy plots in Putin era: A return of Cold War?

Arguably, the least interesting of these revolved around the level of turnout and the extent of Vladimir Putin's...

22 March 2018 12:55 AM IST

President Donald Trump will dispatch his top diplomatic and military advisors to Pakistan in the coming weeks. (Photo: AFP | File)

My Lai 1968: Has America learned any lessons at all?

The nation that picked Donald Trump as President in 2016 hasn't changed all that much.

15 March 2018 1:45 AM IST

Benazir Bhutto (Photo: AP)

Did the nuke question seal Benazir's fate a decade ago?

There can be little doubt, though, that Benazir's planned return to the fray was indelibly wedded to Western interests.

8 March 2018 12:43 AM IST