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Howard’s End
The Australian people’s desire for a change in the orientation of the country’s foreign policy was only one factor behind the Labour party’s landslide victory in the November 24 parliamentary election. Its charismatic leader ...

Regulating tobacco use
In the four centuries since the Portuguese introduced tobacco to India, the weed has taken alarmingly firm root. The country, which is now the second largest producer of tobacco, has — according to World Health Organisation estimates ...

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From military fatigues to civilian clothes
By Nirupama Subramanian

Can Pervez Musharraf walk the country’s political minefield unaided by a military uniform? How much will the army help its ex-boss retain his grip over Pakistan in his new avatar?

News Analysis
Last chance to catch Nazis, say campaigners
By Uki Goni and Rory Carroll

A final effort to track down and prosecute Nazi war criminals who fled to South America after the Second World War was launched in Argentina on Tuesday. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a Jewish human rights group, called its initiative ...

Corrections and clarifications
In a report “Award for Chief Justice of England and Wales” (November 25, 2007), the caption of the accompanying photograph, showing the award recipients, described S. Prabhakaran as Vice-Chairman of ...

In defence of defending the reviled
By Vishnu V. Shankar

By giving terrorists, dictators, and even manipulative defendants proper legal representation and a fair trial, we not only occupy the moral high ground to condemn them; we also create potent symbols of the superiority of our way of life in contrast with theirs.

Annapolis will not help set up a Palestinian state
By Nargiz Asadova

But it will show that the United States, the European Union and the Arab nations can work together in settling problems in the Middle East.

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