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What Balasingham should understand
As the peace process in Sri Lanka totters on the brink of collapse and the screws of international sanctions tighten on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Anton Balasingham, Political Adviser to the organisation's supremo, has come up with a ...

Football's golden oldies
This was the FIFA World Cup final in which players in their prime were expected to dominate, with Ronaldinho fancied as the pick of the pack. It was also seen as the tournament that would provide young genius — Lionel Messi and Cristiano ...

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Towards the endgame in Nepal
By Siddharth Varadarajan

The sooner a U.N. mission is in place to monitor the arms of the Nepal Army and Maoist PLA, the smoother will be the transition towards an interim government and Constituent Assembly elections.

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21st century — the age of charity
By Simon Jenkins

The 19th century was the age of capitalism, the 20th the age of socialism. It seems that the 21st will be the age of charity.

Corrections and clarifications
A reader wondered whether a detail was right in "Major concessions by Mittal clinched the deal" (June 27, 2006, page 1). The sentence was: "The Mittal family will have a 49 per cent stake in the new set-up and will not be in a majority position ...

The sky is no more the limit
By Pallavi Aiyar

For China, its space programme is a source of national pride and international prestige, conferring a status that transcends price tags.

Imperial apologists peddle poisonous fairytale
By Priyamvada Gopal

Neocon ideologues are being given free rein by the media to rewrite the history of Britain's empire and whitewash its crimes.

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