NEW YORK: The Congress Party's unexpected landslide in India's general election was greeted with euphoria. Many believe that Congress - with its commitment to secular values, economic growth, and helping the poor - now has a mandate to transform (...)
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Ever since French President Nicolas Sarkozy took himself off his country's most-eligible-bachelor list by publicly acknowledging his affair with supermodel-turned-pop-musician Carla Bruni during a romantic trip to Euro Disney, he's run into (...)
The world has been horrified by graphic images of the latest crackdown by Myanmar's military junta. But the bullets and clubs unleashed on Buddhist monks have worked. The monks have retreated, and an eerie normalcy has returned to Yangon (Rangoon), (...)