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Showing who's the boss
It has been barely a week since Prime Minister Koirala took over the reins in Nepal but the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) government he heads has quickly understood a key principle of political survival: the amount of power it wields is a function ...

An effective response to malaria
Troubling questions raised by a group of researchers on the World Bank's initiatives to contain malaria must occasion a review of India's own prolonged efforts to combat the disease. An article published in The Lancet by Amir Attaran and ...

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U.S. makes a return to Cold War rhetoric
By Vladimir Radyuhin

Washington's change of heart has been largely provoked by Moscow's increasingly assertive foreign policy and determined upholding of national interests.

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Ensuring justice in a flat world
By T.K. Viswanathan

The authority of law will shift from sovereignty of nation states to consensual submission to rules evolved contractually by the participants.

The plight of women in Iraq
By Natasha Walter

Women in Iraq are living a nightmare that is hidden from the West. Now one of them has turned film-maker to give us a window on to what they endure. She reveals what she saw.

Corrections and Clarifications
{gt}{gt}Ammu Joseph writes to say that the obituary "A man of many parts" on Pattabhi Rama Reddy ("Newscape", May 7, 2006) was not written by her (as the byline stated), but was a press release prepared by the family, which she had re-arranged ...

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