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The mass graves of Kashmir

One sodden evening in April 2010, an Indian army major from the 4 Rajputana Rifles arrived at a remote police post where the mountains gather in a half-hitch around Kashmir, India's northernmost…
PUBLISHED: July 9, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2702 words)

Al-Qaida's wretched utopia and the battle for hearts and minds

Flying the black flag: Jihadi fighters manning a checkpoint at the town of Azzan in south Yemen. The region of newly proclaimed jihadi emirates is run by affiliates of al-Qaida in the Arabian…
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2323 words)

Will Putinism see the end of Putin?

On a Friday night last November Vladimir Putin was running three hours late. A group of foreign academics, journalists and selected Russian TV cameras were quarantined in a restaurant in an…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3669 words)

How the north of England has suffered most in the downturn

PUBLISHED: Feb. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1929 words)

the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma

AUTHOR:Tim Adams
PUBLISHED: Feb. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2440 words)

the loo that saves lives in Liberia

For the worst country in the world, Liberia looks lush. All along the long road to Fish Town, the sumptuous rainforest on either side is a comfort, a green bath to soothe the dreadful red dust that…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2809 words)

how it feels to be young and struggling in the EU

Maybe being young is never easy. But being a twentysomething young European has rarely been more stressful.More than a quarter (28%) of Italians between 16 and 24 are unemployed. Others are…
AUTHOR:Viola Caon
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2263 words)

The US schools with their own police

The charge on the police docket was "disrupting class". But that's not how 12-year-old Sarah Bustamantes saw her arrest for spraying two bursts of perfume on her neck in class because other children…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3037 words)

Hungary's 'Viktator' faces tide of protest at home and abroad

Surrounded by half-drunk flasks of tea and bundled up in three pairs of trousers apiece, the hunger strikers entered their 26th night of protest outside the Hungarian state broadcaster on Wednesday…
AUTHOR:Helen Pidd
PUBLISHED: Jan. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1960 words)
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