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Monday 19 October 2009 (29 Shawwal 1430)

Editorial: Controlling pollution

The witty underwater Cabinet submergence of Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed and his government officials could draw renewed attention to his island nation which lies just over three feet above... Full Story


PA on a slippery slope

IT is, of course, all the fault of Judge Richard Goldstone. He is to blame for the trouble we are having at the UN, both in New York and in Geneva. Now he is to blame also for the existential danger... Full Story


Reflections on a war gone wrong

ROBERT McNamara, the former US secretary of defense (right) and an architect of the Vietnam War, said it all could have been different if McGeorge Bundy, President Lyndon Johnson’s national security... Full Story




Torture: UK policy demands answers

SHORTLY after the suicide bombings on the East Coast in the autumn of 2001, a debate began in the US about whether it could ever be right to use torture to thwart further terrorist attacks. Most Western... Full Story