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Opinion | Church Of England Refuses To Learn From Its Abuse Scandals

Opinion | Church Of England Refuses To Learn From Its Abuse Scandals
25.02.2025 10

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Opinion | Is This The Birth Of A 'Post-Aid' World?

Opinion | Is This The Birth Of A 'Post-Aid' World?
14.02.2025 10

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Opinion | How China Is Rushing To Fill The Gaps Trump Is Creating

Opinion | How China Is Rushing To Fill The Gaps Trump Is Creating
13.02.2025 10

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Opinion | The Death Of The 'Liberal Elite' Should Shock No One

05.02.2025 10

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Opinion | The One Where Europe Gets Bullied

30.01.2025 7

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Opinion | How India Can Deal With Trump And His Tariffs 'Creatively'

29.01.2025 7

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Opinion | Is Trump Serious About Annexing Canada? Or Is He Just Being Trump?

27.01.2025 8

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Opinion | How China Quietly Made New Friends To Prepare For Trump 2.0

22.01.2025 10

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Opinion | What Next For TikTok If US Really Bans It On Sunday?

16.01.2025 4

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Opinion | Trump's 'Monaco' Vision For Gaza Is As Tone-Deaf As It Can Get

15.01.2025 5

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Opinion | Musk Is Becoming A Menace For Europe

14.01.2025 10

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Opinion | Trump Is Back. Does That Mean A Saudi-Israel 'Deal'?

Donald Trump exited the White House in January 2021, secure in the knowledge that he had sown the seeds of peace in West Asia by getting Israel and...

07.01.2025 7

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Opinion | Why India Should Get Behind Space Mining

September 12: Commercial space tourism, once a fantasy straight out of a sci-fi movie, blasted off for real. The industry appears to be steadily...

03.01.2025 7

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Opinion | War Or Peace: What Will Become Of Middle East In 2025?

Picture this: the current interim government in Syria, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), gives way to an elected government. Under this fledgling...

31.12.2024 10

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Opinion | West Is Gushing Over al Jolani. Has It Forgotten About Laden?

Way back on December 6, 1993, The Independent, a British newspaper, published a feature article written by the late Robert Fisk, a journalist of...

26.12.2024 10

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Opinion | Syria: Why Is The Middle East Always In Turmoil?

Few could have foreseen Bashar al-Assad's dramatic ouster as 2024 drew to a close. For years, Syria's battle lines had been frozen under a fragile...

26.12.2024 4

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Opinion | Tabish Khair, Literature, And What It Means To Be A 'Bihari'

What does it mean to be a Bihari in the Indian imagination? Does it mean you are an unlettered, poverty-stricken mazdoor, trudging your way back...

17.12.2024 40

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Opinion | France To Germany To Belgium, EU Is Imploding

France is without a government or an annual budget. Germany, the supposed anchor of European stability, is being run by a caretaker administration....

09.12.2024 4

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Opinion | Two Sides Of The Same Coin: Fundamentalists Share Worldview Yet Remain Hostile

Earlier this month, tragic news from Texas brought the abortion debate into sharp focus. According to a media report, a pregnant woman died because...

26.11.2024 4

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Opinion | The Logistics Of Trump's Deportation Dream Are Not So Pretty

Donald Trump hit the ground running as President-elect, dedicating his first week to assembling his team. By the start of his second week, he...

19.11.2024 3

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Opinion | Just Like Rome, The American Empire Is Crumbling From Within

When Donald Trump clinched the US Presidency last week, world leaders practically stumbled over each other in a frenzied dash to congratulate him....

13.11.2024 4

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Opinion | India-Canada Row: Which Way Will Trump Look?

It's no surprise that many Indians—including some former diplomats—are celebrating Donald Trump's reelection. After all, Trump's bond with India,...

11.11.2024 3

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Opinion | 'And I Love You So...': Notes On Musk-Trump Brotherhood

Donald Trump's victory was, let's say, an emphatic contradiction of the legacy media's confidence that the race was “too close to call”. So, did...

07.11.2024 10

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Opinion | Can The New President Save America's Waning 'Soft Power'?

Elections in all the seven battleground states of the US have already concluded, while results have been declared for two. So far, Republican...

06.11.2024 3

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Opinion | India To Africa, Calls For Britain To Pay Reparations Are Growing

The most memorable moment of King Charles and Queen Camilla's recent royal tour of Australia and Samoa was Australian indigenous senator Lidia...

04.11.2024 2

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Opinion | What Sanctions? How US' Favourite Foreign Policy Tool Is Backfiring

It is hard to miss the irony. The idea for a new trans-border payment system and a new currency was apparently discussed at the recently concluded...

29.10.2024 4

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Opinion | How Biden Hastened The Slide Of 'Pax Americana'

The pinnacle of Joe Biden's presidency was day one in Oval Office, when he confidently declared "America is back". He had said that as America...

24.10.2024 4

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Opinion | With CIA And Mossad, West Shouldn't Lecture Others On Espionage

On a blustery, cold January day in 2011 in Lahore, a CIA contractor and former US Special Forces operative was driving through a busy street when...

23.10.2024 4

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Opinion | Iran Is Embattled. But It's Still Winning The Ideological War

Cafes in bustling Central London are always full of tourists, of which many moneyed ones come from the Arab world. Once, I found myself deep in...

18.10.2024 3

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Opinion | Why India Shouldn't Let Russia And China Control BRICS Agenda

Among all BRICS leaders, it's perhaps Russian President Vladimir Putin who is waiting for this year's summit, scheduled to be held on October 22-24...

11.10.2024 10

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Opinion | No, Biden Doesn't Get To Moan Over An 'Out-Of-Hand' Netanyahu Now

It's not every day a country dares to ignore the mighty America. Most nations know that defying the US President may result in a stern warning,...

10.10.2024 3

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Opinion | Why Is UK PM Starmer So Upset With Elon Musk?

Less than a year ago, tech billionaire Elon Musk was Britain's star guest at a conference, with the then Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, playing the...

03.10.2024 5

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Opinion | The Real Reason US Keeps Accusing Russia Of Meddling In Its Elections

Earlier this month, the US administration sounded the alarm on Russia's alleged attempts to sway the upcoming presidential election through fake...

25.09.2024 3

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Opinion | 'We Lost Her': A Smartphone Epidemic Is Ruining Europe's New Generation

"We lost her, and she lost her childhood." These were the words of Amanda Miller, the mother of a 15-year-old girl who has been in the hospital for...

18.09.2024 2

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Opinion | India-Pak Peace Is Possible - Only If Pak Army Takes A Back Seat

Following the controversial February general election, it seems Pakistan is going through a period where a nominal civilian government led by Prime...

11.09.2024 20

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Opinion | IC 814 Row, And My Chance Encounter With Terrorist Omar Sheikh

It was around 8:30 or 9 in the evening on the last day of 1999. I was in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and was visiting a fellow Bihari...

06.09.2024 5

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Opinion | India Is Finally Reversing Its Semiconductor Misfortune

(This is the second article in a two-part series on the US-China semiconductor battle, and where India stands in it. Here is the first part) When...

05.09.2024 3

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Opinion | China Is Cutting Down US's Tech Supremacy, Chip By Chip

Just over a year ago, when Chinese smartphone and telecoms giant Huawei launched its latest smartphone, the Mate60 Pro, eyebrows were raised in...

03.09.2024 3

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Opinion | Crime, Poverty, Fear: Great Britain Is Not So Great Anymore

Last week, I visited my favourite cafe in South London, known for its Illy coffee beans that I relish. As I savoured my coffee, a young man, wearing...

29.08.2024 7

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Opinion | Kamala Harris, Sunak, Obama, And Their Struggle To Truly 'Belong'

At the Democratic National Convention (DNC) stage in Chicago, Little Amara shouts, "Everybody over here, say 'Kama'." Then joins in her sister,...

26.08.2024 5

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Opinion | Trump-Musk Chat Shows Innovation Alone Can Save Legacy Media

Once again, social media has reminded the editors and managers of traditional media that when it comes to live events or disseminating news...

16.08.2024 2

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Opinion | Misconceptions Driving Anti-Immigrant Protests Across UK

The Paris Olympic Games are over, and Britain appears to be happy with its medal tally of 65, equalling the success of the 2012 London Games....

13.08.2024 3

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Opinion | Britain On The Boil: What's Behind The Street Violence Sweeping Through UK?

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has had a baptism by fire. Just a month ago, his Labour Party came to power after a long 14-year hiatus. But...

08.08.2024 30

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Opinion | All That India May Lose If Middle East Plunges Into A Full-Blown War

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, it was clear that India's West Asia policy needed a facelift - even a reset. He made...

06.08.2024 2

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Opinion | UK 'Kicking' Incident: The 'Civilised' West Must Do Some Soul-Searching

Earlier this week, a disturbing video emerged from the UK, in which a young Asian boy could be seen being kicked and punched while he lay...

27.07.2024 2

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Opinion | A Trump-Vance Team Is A Nightmare For Europe

President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the presidential race on Sunday has left everyone guessing who his replacement will be. He has backed...

22.07.2024 10

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Opinion | Why Indians Must Be Realistic About The Rise Of Indian-Origin Leaders Abroad

Donald Trump's defiant act of pumping his fist in the air, moments after his brush with death, could potentially sink President Joe Biden's chances...

16.07.2024 20

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