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Interfaith harmony, economic integration precedes political solutions? DESPARDES — In a first, Israel on Sunday officially gave its citizens the right to travel to Saudi Arabia for religious and business
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BBC reported a passenger plane belonging to Ariana Airlines crashed and caught fire in eastern Afghan Ghazni province, citing officials; Daily Mail UK said, “Boeing passenger plane carrying 83 people
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DESPARDES — Renowned social critic and political activist Noam Chomsky has dubbed the latest developments in India symptoms of fascism. Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultra-nationalism characterized by
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DESPARDES — At Davos, the US-China tightrope that world leaders and business executives have been witnessing, yielded a special one: China from the Pentagon standpoint is an existential threat —
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Largest statelessness crisis in the world could cause widespread human suffering DESPARDES — In a scathing denouncement of Modi government’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), European Union (EU) lawmakers have drafted
DESPARDES — Foreigners visiting Pakistan may see or have a joy-ride on noiseless, smokeless three-wheelers snaking through major arteries of the cities. Pakistan on Saturday launched its first electric three-wheeler
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Some of the world leaders making waves on global arena and in the region weren’t born in the Chinese Zodiac year of the Rat For example: Trump was born on
For an up-to-the-minute look at who has testified and who has not, go to the impeachment tracker. To meet the players, click here. THE WEEK — Secretary of State Mike
DESPARDES — World’s largest democracy is taking a U-turn toward becoming a Hindu state, and as it does things are unraveling: India slipped to the rank of 140 out of
Fear in Kashmir as top Indian general talks of ‘deradicalization’ camps DESPARDES — Prime Minister Imran Khan has called upon Pakistanis at home and abroad (over 10m Pakistanis are overseas)
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DESPARDES — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to end a pact key to annual war games with American troops if the US does not restore the travel visa of
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“…it looks very much as though our government has gone rogue…”: Arundhati Roy DESPARDES — The Economist says India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is stoking divisions in the world’s biggest
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