Thu 02 July 2020: From the US and Brazil to India and the UK, the very qualities that catapult populist leaders to power are those that make them dismal failures at handling a serious national emergency. As the world completes five months since the first coronavirus death became public, more than 10 million people across […]
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Wed 01 July 2020: On 19 May, 1935, Thomas Edward Lawrence passed away following a week of remaining in a coma caused by a motorcycle crash in Dorset, England. The British Arabist, linguist, author of one of the most acclaimed works in the English language and military strategist, who had a senior role in the Arab Revolt […]
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Sat 27 June 2020: ISTANBUL (AA) – India, perceived as a pivot to the US policy of containing China, appears to be on the horns of strategic dilemma both regionally and globally. While it is weighing the costs of conflict to its economy as its army is engaged in a standoff with China along the […]
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Thu 25 June 2020: Have you heard the axiom “In war, truth is the first casualty”? As healthcare providers around the world wage war against the COVID-19 pandemic, national governments have taken to brawling with researchers, the media and each other over the veracity of the data used to monitor and track the disease’s march […]
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Wed 24 June 2020: A British aid worker has been kidnapped in Syria by members of a Sunni Islamist militant group in rebel-held Idlib, it emerged on Monday night. Tauqir Sharif, 31, from Walthamstow in East London lives and works in the north-west Syrian city, which has a large number of other British humanitarian workers […]
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Mon 22 June 2020: The gradual encroachment on Kashmiri rights and growing prospect of colonisation could set the region on fire. For more than 70 years, Kashmiris have lived with the dread of the Indian government changing the demography and special status of Indian-administered Kashmir, which was till recently Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state. Deemed preposterous and exaggerated […]
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Sat 20 June 2020: UN is still struggling to maintain the status quo and stay in the same structure even after 75 years ISTANBUL (AA) – After the two world wars in the last century, joint institutions were formed to bring the states together to resolve any disputes through peace. Following the First World War, the […]
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Sun 21 June 2020: While a vaccine is being developed, researchers are trialling existing drugs that could help doctors treat coronavirus. With the coronavirus pandemic tightening its grip on the world and economies grinding to a standstill, the race is on to find a vaccine. But while that could take up to 18 months, existing […]
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Fri 19 June 2020: Lawyers and critics now say that in light of coronavirus, legal arguments against the burqa ban are much weaker and that it’s time to put an end to the criminalisation of women who choose to cover their faces in public. For Karima Rahmani and other Muslim women who wear the niqab […]
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Thu 18 June 2020: Indian prime minister’s bellicosity is missing from the scene as the country mourns soldiers killed in hand-to-hand clashes with Chinese troops. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is unusually quiet. And people are wondering why. If there’s any time he should be active on Twitter, it is now. After all, 20 Indian […]
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