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Desperate measures
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto drove discredited Pakistan’s discredited dictator, Pervez Musharraf, and his puppet Cabinet into a seemingly precarious position. Under domestic and international pressure, he has sought to create an ...

Abolish the death penalty
In a ground-breaking move, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to place a moratorium on executions, with 104 member states favouring the resolution and 54 opposing it. As a result, the death penalty could be abolished de facto ...

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Russia-Iran ties on the upswing
By Vladimir Radyuhin

Vladimir Putin has seized the opportunity offered by the changing landscape around Iran to upgrade bilateral relations across the board.

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On the razor’s edge, care and caution
Innovation is the key for a lively, sparkling newspaper. Something new, something different is needed everyday to catch the readers’ attention. But more than the news department, it is the advertisers who have caught on to this. They are ...

At times like this, nations are forged
By Binyavanga Wainaina

Anxious New York traders seek therapy
By Andrew Clark

They are the meanest, toughest, smartest financiers in the world, with a caffeine-fuelled, adrenaline-driven lifestyle. But for Wall Street’s top traders, the strain is beginning to tell from month upon month of wildly volatile stock ...

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