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It is difficult and expensive to travel to Jaffna (Photos: Ananda Jayasekara) It has been six months since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, but normality has yet to return to the Tamil cultural heartland of Jaffna,...
Seven-time boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has announced he is to stand for election in the Philippines on the back of his latest world title win. No pain, no gain: Pacquiao waved to the crowd with his damaged right wrist, an...
On today's WashPost op-ed pages, Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith, who worked in the Justice Department under GWB, defend Eric Holder's decision and say that in fact it's military tribunals that don't work that well: In deciding to...
The Conservative Party positively encourages the persecution of such types as Sir Jeremy Bagge, old Etonian and leader of Norfolk's "Turnip Taliban", says Simon Heffer. We had a prime example this week in Sir Jeremy Bagge, 7th...
Sher Mohammed Akhundzada the former governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province has revealed he turned thousands of his followers over to the Taliban after he was sacked from the job under pressure from British officials.
By forcing a flawed model of democracy on Afghans, the US has made Afghanistan less stable and less democratic The fiasco of the elections in Afghanistan has been widely lamented . Most laments focus on a single obvious fact:...
Published Date: 21 November 2009 YOU may know al-Qaeda wants to kill you, but does al-Shabaab, the Islamic militia fighting the UN-backed government of Somalia, perceive the West as a direct enemy? And does the Eastern...
Published Date: 21 November 2009 A SUSPECTED American missile strike killed at least eight Taleban militants yesterday in north-western Pakistan, officials said. It was the second attack this week in an area believed to hold...
This has been a week when some politicians – Tory ones at that – have deeply offended rural voters, says our countryside commentator John Sheard. But next week, a scheme is launched which raises a glimmer of hope for peace in...
Pakistan demands U.S. share Afghan blueprint Islamabad fears foreign troop increase could push militants across border Internally displaced Pakistani tribal women and their children, who fled their villages due to fighting...
