Cuban predictions a risk
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Russians in Syria: ambition achieved
He wasn't standing on an aircraft carrier with a banner saying "Mission Accomplished'' behind him, but Russia's President Vladimir Putin was a lot more credible than former US president George W.
Minimalism engenders success
Muslims playing catch-up with Western attitudes to sex
Xi becomes a one-man regime
Opening the National People's Congress in Beijing last weekend, Prime Minister Li Keqiang set China's growth target for the coming year at 6.5%-7%, the lowest in decades.
Britain flip flops on unity
What would you call a country that called for "a structure under which [Europe] can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom ...
Low oil price strategy not spent yet
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent,'' said John Maynard Keynes (or maybe it wasn't him, but no matter).
Turks back off enlarging war
"We will defend Aleppo: all of Turkey stands behind its defenders,'' says Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on February 10.
Revolution at a high price
Exactly five years after Egypt's democratic revolution triumphed, the country is once more ruled by a military office.
Small country addressing big problem
Here we go again.