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Iran’s theocracy starting to erode

Posters of Iranian presidential candidates Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili displayed in a...

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Iran’s theocracy starting to erode

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iranian TV just before the second round of voting on Sunday ‘‘I have heard that people’s zeal and interest is higher than in the first round [of Iran’s presidential election]."

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Macron isn’t stupid: France won’t head right

French President Emmanuel Macron heads into the voting booth during France’s first round of...

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Macron isn’t stupid: France won’t head right

Nothing else in France looks like the 1930s, so why should fascism?

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Enormous changes at the last minute

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. PHOTO:REUTERS

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Enormous changes at the last minute

By Friday we will know the outcome of the British election.

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Second chance for South Africa?

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa reacts after being re-elected. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Second chance for South Africa?

Cyril Ramaphosa is the president of South Africa again, but everything else is different.

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Stop ‘Munich’ talk — a great war is not coming

War rumbles on in Ukraine. Photo: Reuters

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Stop ‘Munich’ talk — a great war is not coming

Scarcely a week passes without some media pundit or attention-seeking historian warning that a great war is nigh.

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Macron’s strategy: hit and hope

French President Emmanuel Macron contemplates his next move. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Macron’s strategy: hit and hope

Even before the final results were in from all of the 27 European Union countries that voted in the EU elections last weekend, President Emmanuel Macron had called national elections in France for...

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This time, not even close to 400

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to...

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This time, not even close to 400

"Pride goeth before a fall", says the Old Testament, so India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was just begging for humiliation. It duly arrived.

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Is it crunch time for Netanyahu?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at a Likud party meeting at the Knesset. PHOTO:...

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Is it crunch time for Netanyahu?

It has not been a good week for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyhu, chief decision-maker in the war in the Gaza Strip that has already cost at least 35,000 civilian deaths.

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Small assassination attempt in Slovakia; not many hurt

Slovakian police arrest Juraj Cintula after his attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Robert Fico...

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Small assassination attempt in Slovakia; not many hurt

Madeleine Albright, the former US Secretary of State, once called Slovakia "the black hole at the heart of Europe," which seems a harsh judgement on five million Slovaks.

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ANC tattered, but too early to write off South Africa

Jacob Zuma has now founded a new party, uMkhonto we Sizwe. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

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ANC tattered, but too early to write off South Africa

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born," wrote Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in 1929.

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There is no prospect of a buyout

Displaced Palestinian boys play football as they shelter at a tent camp, amid the ongoing...

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There is no prospect of a buyout

Last week a despairing reader asked me if the solution to the "Middle East Problem" might be to throw money at it: just buy the Palestinians out.

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Is it the mother of all feedbacks?

A girl runs through a water sprinkler on a hot summer day in New Delhi. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Is it the mother of all feedbacks?

"Just like this year, last year the heat wave extended from parts of India to Bangladesh and Myanmar, and all the way to Thailand."

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Actions of one of three men could lead to ceasefire in Gaza

Palestinian children stand amid the debris of a house destroyed by overnight Israeli bombardment...

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Actions of one of three men could lead to ceasefire in Gaza

Hamas did not need a ceasefire.

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Well done all — wider war looks to have been averted, for now

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, shows a video of Iranian missile attacks...

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Well done all — wider war looks to have been averted, for now

Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, is embarrassed and humiliated by the complete failure of his drone and missile attack on Israel.

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Middle East: A bigger war looming after latest Israeli missile strikes?

The Iranian embassy in Damascus after a suspected Israeli missile strike on Syria. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Middle East: A bigger war looming after latest Israeli missile strikes?

What should you do when your government assures you that everything is under control and says there is no need to buy generators, stock up on food and withdraw money from the bank?

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