LONDON: Two years on, they are still haggling over the name. An Arab spring? Springs are seasonal, and tumultuous though transitional government is, what they have in Egypt and Tunisia is a long way away from an Arab winter. If the wave of revolt sweeping
Published 16 Oct, 2012 08:36pm
LONDON: While Syria’s civil war dominates the world’s attention, less dramatic and telegenic events in Egypt retain the power to decide if popular uprisings will succeed in establishing a democratic alternative to tyranny in the Arab world
Published 15 Aug, 2012 01:04am
TUNIS: The head of the Tunisian Islamist party and the brains behind a successful transitional coalition with two securalist parties has flown to Cairo in an effort to persuade the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to share power
Published 13 Jun, 2012 01:19am
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 equestrian centre
Published 28 Feb, 2012 09:31pm
BEFORE meeting Vladimir Putin, it’s best to get acquainted with his horse. Each year a group of academics and journalists is invited by the Russian government
Published 01 Dec, 2011 01:43am
LONDON: It has always been hard to work out who fired the first shot in any of the many conflicts that have broken...
Published 10 Aug, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: International relief agencies are completely unprepared to deal with the consequences of a chemical or...
Published 12 Jan, 2003 12:00am
LONDON: President George Bush, hijacked by hardliners in his administration, is setting the world on a course ...
Published 10 Jan, 2003 12:00am
LONDON: US, Europe and their Nato alliance are floundering in their nuclear policy, apparently willing to use ...
Published 10 Jan, 2003 12:00am
PARIS: It’s a good time to be a policeman in France. Back pay, overtime, rubber bullets — all will come tumbling ...
Published 16 Jun, 2002 12:00am
LONDON: The Sept 11 attacks have seen a transformation in the relationship between Washington and Moscow, historic...
Published 11 Nov, 2001 12:00am