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Tuesday 15/August/2017 14:37 PM

Britain’s road to perdition

Full English Brexit is off the menu. Before leaving the European Union altogether, the British government now wants an “interim period,” in which the...

Tuesday 15/August/2017 14:20 PM

Can South Korea save the day?

As North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump’s war of words escalates, Independence Day celebrations – commemorating the Korean...

Tuesday 15/August/2017 13:57 PM

Weathering the violence of climate change

With India experiencing its worst drought in 140 years, Indian farmers have taken to the streets. At a protest in Madhya Pradesh this summer, police opened...

Monday 14/August/2017 14:36 PM

China’s “double-freeze” con

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says the United States will pay a “thousand-fold for all the heinous crimes” it has committed against his country. U.S....

Monday 14/August/2017 13:51 PM

India, a land of belonging

Seventy years ago at midnight on August 15, 1947, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru proclaimed India’s independence from the British Empire. Nehru called it...

Sunday 13/August/2017 15:15 PM

The Mexican paradox

Few economies pose as big a paradox as Mexico’s. Emerging from a series of macroeconomic crises in the mid-1990s, Mexico undertook bold reforms that...