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British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Amid dog-whistle politics, did Sunak go easy on Suella?

Cruella, in an attempt to drown the noisy negative publicity, has resorted to dog-whistle politics

27 May 2023 12:24 AM

Is ‘Biden versus Trump’ a Hobson’s choice? That is a worry enough to rattle the world way beyond Washington and the United States. (DC Image)

AA Edit | Biden vs Trump in 2024?

If Mr Biden, at 82, wins he would beat his own record for the oldest President to be sworn in

27 Apr 2023 12:15 AM

Cover photo of 'The Laughter' by Sonora Jha. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Culture wars (in a US varsity) and the price of clarity

10 days after I closed the book, I still feel as though it ran me over with a lorry.

23 Apr 2023 12:47 AM

Former US president Donald Trump appears in court at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 4, 2023. - Former US president Donald Trump arrived for a historic court appearance in New York on Tuesday, facing criminal charges that threaten to upend the 2024 White House race. (Photo: PTI)

Indranil Banerjie | Trump in court a signal US democracy isn’t broken yet

The pillars of America’s democracy might appear wobbly from time to time, but they appear to have endured a lot better than anywhere else

07 Apr 2023 12:00 AM

AA Edit | Democracy triumphs as Trump faces court in US

Even if pronounced guilty, Mr Trump will not be disqualified from being a candidate, which he already is

06 Apr 2023 12:10 AM

Former US President Donald Trump. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Trump makes dubious history

Mr Trump may have been charged on many counts but they will be known only after his arraignment takes place on Tuesday when he surrenders.

01 Apr 2023 12:14 AM

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a news briefing at the White House, in Washington, Sept. 15, 2017. Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, announced her candidacy for president on Tuesday, becoming the first major challenger to former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination. (File Photo: PTI)

Nikki Haley makes big announcement, launches her 2024 US presidential bid

Haley, 51, is the two-term Governor of South Carolina and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations

14 Feb 2023 6:42 PM

President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Brazil & US: A tale of two riots

The President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva restored control in acting swiftly to empower federal intervention

12 Jan 2023 12:06 AM

File photo of Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi waving at supporters at a public meeting ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, in Kheda district. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Gujarat, Modi’s home base, remains a testing ground

Gujarat, is not a cakewalk for either the BJP or Mr Modi, and the PM is also keen to prove that he remains unbeaten on his home ground

30 Nov 2022 12:00 AM

Former President Donald Trump (AFP File)

AA Edit | Trump is back like a bad penny

To the credit of the US voters, the most dangerous election deniers were not voted into office in the midterms.

21 Nov 2022 12:57 AM

Former US President Donald Trump speaks to the media while departing a polling station after voting in the US midterm elections at Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 8, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Midterms: Democracy gets a boost; setback to Trump

Significant as it may be for Joe Biden’s regime, the verdict pales when compared to the process keeping its credibility

11 Nov 2022 12:05 AM

(R-L) U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore and Former President Donald Trump dances after he finished speaking at a campaign rally in support of the campaign of Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance.

US votes with Biden agenda at stake and Trump in the wings

Across the country voters called on their fellow citizens to cast their ballot in the midterms, which historically have low turnout

08 Nov 2022 5:56 PM

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Musk storms tweeter nest: Twitter to retain its sauce

Musk’s stance in favour of “free speech” seems as doomed as Custer’s last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876

02 Nov 2022 12:05 AM

Elected president for the leftist Workers Party (PT) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks after winning the presidential run-off election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 30, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Ray of hope dawns for Brazil

Swing to the Left may be in line with what has been happening in Latin America where at least 6 nations have gone down this political road

01 Nov 2022 12:15 AM

The point is whether India is now assuming draconian powers to rein in the social media giants that have been allowing a free run to opinions of all hues and rants by anyone with so much as an anonymous account on sites. — Representational Image/AFP

AA Edit | Govt tightens social media grip as Musk runs Twitter

The law will apply only to India as the social media sites operate across the globe and hate to be pinned down by laws of any one country

30 Oct 2022 10:49 PM

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP File)

Trump says Florida home 'raided' by FBI

The FBI had not yet confirmed the search or said what it might be for, and Trump is at the center of a slew of legal investigations

09 Aug 2022 11:02 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI file Photo)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Politics of nostalgia hides the problems of the day

Central to the BJP’s ideology is the juxtaposition of a glorious Hindu golden age followed by an era of Muslim oppression

17 Dec 2021 11:59 PM

Trump says his goal in launching the Trump Media & Technology Group and its “Truth Social” app is to create a rival to the Big Tech companies that have shut him out and denied him the megaphone that was paramount to his national rise. (AP)

Trump announces launch of his very own social media site 'Truth Social'

An earlier effort to launch a blog on his existing website was abandoned after the page drew dismal views

21 Oct 2021 1:44 PM

Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Two suicide bombers and gunmen have targeted crowds massing near the Kabul airport, in the waning days of a massive airlift that has drawn thousands of people seeking to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. (AP/Wali Sabawoon)

Suicide bombers kill dozens of civilians, 10 U.S. troops at Kabul airport

There was no complete death toll of Afghan civilians but video images uploaded by Afghan journalists showed bodies of people killed

27 Aug 2021 4:47 AM

It’s not fully depleted, but it’s hard to escape the feeling that solving the problems of 2020 and 2021 will require something special which at the moment is not on view. (AFP)

Aakar Patel | Does Modi govt know what to do to tackle 2020 & 2021 problems?

The most significant aspects of this period were the nationwide lockdown

10 Aug 2021 2:07 AM

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