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China braces for slow growth as Communist Party conference hints at tax expansion & more spending
The Third Plenum of the Communist Party of China (CPC) did not announce any big-bang reforms but instead sought to focus on qualitative growth read more
Beijing is solidifying the China-Hamas-Fatah triad via peace talks between the latter two.…
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Why India can neither shun Russia nor ignore West
It is imperative that, while giving great importance to maintaining relations with Russia, India doesn’t in any way downgrade the enormous importance that the West holds for India read more
The meltdown in Western media, official circles, and think tan…
‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix
Keanu Reeves has a reputation to maintain as one of the nicest, humblest guys on the Hollywood A-list, and maintain it he does. Grizzled of beard, spiky of hair, in a V-neck T-shirt under a dark suit teamed, oddly, with chunky brown hiking boots, it’s …
There’s a price to pay for being unready for war. Will Canada have to pay it again?
A little more than 18 years ago, amid the dust and hard heat of Kandahar Airfield, the weary look on Col. Ian Hope’s face spoke more loudly than his words.
It was the spring of 2006 and the Canadian contingent in Afghanistan had just been through…
From hell to solidarity: a pivotal week for Ukraine
At 9.52am local time last Monday, air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv.
The city’s residents have become accustomed to the daily warning of incoming Russian missile and drone attacks. But Monday’s attacks were set to be one of the heaviest on th…
From hell to solidarity: a pivotal week for Ukraine
At 9.52am local time last Monday, air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv.
The city’s residents have become accustomed to the daily warning of incoming Russian missile and drone attacks. But Monday’s attacks were set to be one of the heaviest on th…
From hell to solidarity: a pivotal week for Ukraine
At 9.52am local time last Monday, air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv.
The city’s residents have become accustomed to the daily warning of incoming Russian missile and drone attacks. But Monday’s attacks were set to be one of the heaviest on th…
From hell to solidarity: a pivotal week for Ukraine
At 9.52am local time last Monday, air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv.
The city’s residents have become accustomed to the daily warning of incoming Russian missile and drone attacks. But Monday’s attacks were set to be one of the heaviest on th…
Iran’s new president vows balance with all countries but warns U.S. his country won’t be pressured
Open this photo in gallery: Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian greets his supporters in a meeting a day after the presidential election, at the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, July 6, …
Iran’s new president vows balance with all countries but warns U.S. his country won’t be pressured
Open this photo in gallery: Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian greets his supporters in a meeting a day after the presidential election, at the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, July 6, …