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Democratising the House of Lords
Is it then farewell to the Lords after last week's dramatic vote in the Commons in favour of a fully elected upper house? Well, not yet. However, the vote does signal a new political will, in the wake of the cash-for-peerages scandal, to ...

Global influences on stock markets
Indian stock markets, still coming to terms with the central budget, are now increasingly influenced by developments abroad. The inherent volatility in stock prices has been magnified. Stock indices plunged on budget day and have not recovered ...

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Continuing myopia in West Asia
By Hamid Ansari

The Palestinian quest for nationhood, the Iraqi endeavour to retrieve it, the Iranian determination to assert it. The impulses, in each case, contradict the imperatives of hegemonic regional or external power.

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U.S. Generals say army is outwitted in Iraq
By Paul Beaver and Peter Beaumont

Fighters described as "smart, agile and cunning."

Al-Qaeda — the second coming
By Jason Burke

In a major investigation, an expert on terror reveals the outfit is evolving into a potent new threat.

Row over Churchill's `anti-Semitism'
By David Smith

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S views on anti-Semitism were at the centre of a row on Saturday night after Cambridge University claimed to have discovered a 70-year-old document in which the future Prime Minister wrote that Jews may "have been partly ...

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