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India in Africa
The second India-Africa summit at Addis Ababa has set the stage for a comprehensive re-engagement between the world's largest democracy and an emerging continent. The Africa-India Framework for Enhanced Cooperation and the Addis Ababa ...

Figuring out the textile crisis
By downing shutters for a day this week, cotton spinning mill units may not have reduced the huge glut that has built up in yarn stocks. But they have succeeded in turning the spotlight on the complex web of public policy the central ...

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Russia: who will be the next President?
By Vladimir Radyuhin

Neither Vladimir Putin nor Dmitry Medvedev has ruled out running in the presidential election of 2012, and neither has stated clearly he will contest.

News Analysis

‘Is it safe, or is it dangerous?'
By Hiroko Tabuchi

A huge outcry is erupting in Fukushima over what parents say is a blatant government failure to protect their children from dangerous levels of radiation.

Somalis are told to stop bickering or lose financing
By Jeffrey Gettleman

Members of the United Nations Security Council sent an unusually blunt message to Somalia's leaders on May 25, Wednesday, to stop fighting among themselves or risk losing millions of dollars a year from Western donors. Somalia's leaders ...

Chasing riches and finding only squalor
By Suzanne Daley

A look at the plight of thousands of new migrants making their way to Europe across the Mediterranean — the result of the political upheaval in north Africa.

Corrections and Clarifications
* * Medha Gadgil is a Principal Secretary, Home and not Principle Secretary as mentioned in the second paragraph of a report “Kasab's security: Maharashtra not to refund ITBP bill” (May 25, 2011). * * The ...

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