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What kind of elections?
Pakistan’s election commission is a handmaiden of the executive. The Supreme Court is packed with regime-loyalists who tossed out their allegiance to the Constitution and swore loyalty to the November 3 provisional constitutional order. The ...

Japanese whalers at it again
The decision of Japanese whalers to slaughter over a thousand whales in the Antarctic in their latest season demonstrates deplorable contempt for the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling issued by the International Whaling Commission. This is ...

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Women to the fore: feminising Latin politics
By Jorge Heine

As old-fashioned political parties with strong credibility problems struggle to come to terms with the changing environment in Latin America, women leaders — perceived as less corrupt, more task-oriented and with a warmer, more people-friendly leadership style — have moved in and occupied the newly emerging political spaces.

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OUT OF LONDON

London woos Indian money — and how!
By Hasan Suroor

FDI flows from India are expected to reach $5 billion by 2010. And the British capital has its sights set on a big slice of that cake.

Corrections and Clarifications
>>In a report “Farmers term MSP for red gram unscientific” (Karnataka edition – Bangalore, December 12, 2007), the third paragraph was: “The MSP fixed by the government for red gram also does not follow the ...

White House race is turning into a real classic
By Jonathan Freedland

It is replete with the requisite elements of a cracking contest: a gaggle of intriguing candidates with complicated histories, volatility in the electorate, and an unpredictable result.

U.K.’s Afghan mission — a fruitless pursuit
By Simon Jenkins

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