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Wednesday Jan 19
Appalling gender bias
After nearly 10 years in office, only one cabinet ministry in the Karzai government is led by a woman: the Ministry for Women's Affairs
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Wednesday Jan 19
Treat Duvalier with scepticism
It will be interesting to see if the ex-dictator is willing to offer himself for questioning
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Wednesday Jan 19
Tunisia interim order ought to know its limits
Genuinely free elections require all parties to be able to talk openly to the people
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Wednesday Jan 19
Technology versus tyranny
Thanks to the internet, we can safely say now: goodbye to the age of mass massacres
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Wednesday Jan 19
No empathy for greedy speculators
Five men have been justly jailed in Dubai for tampering with expiry dates on food
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Wednesday Jan 19
The travails of travel
Think of travel as a way of beating stress and relaxing after weeks of work in the fast lane
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Wednesday Jan 19
A rare moment of clarity over Palestinian statehood
The recognition that a two-state solution is no longer possible opens the way for other paths not dependent on Western mediation
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Tuesday Jan 18
China and US hope for respite
During his visit to Washington, President Hu Jintao will highlight Beijing's 'soft power'
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Tuesday Jan 18
South Sudan's dilemma
The people of the region think that with independence most of their problems would be solved, however, the reality is different
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Tuesday Jan 18
Left in the cold with a corpse
A poor man's plight in harsh and cold conditions
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Free speech can't exist unchained
American politics is wounding, not healing, because there is no discipline in the trade of ideas and opinion
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Disillusioned Indian diaspora
While expatriates love their motherland, they feel the bureaucrats and politicians have failed them
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Return of the Kissinger model
Obama's endeavour to resolve Israeli-Palestinian dispute has been reduced to Cold War-era conflict management
