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  What will Turkey do in Afghanistan?

  by Vladimir Danilov | Updated at 12:00am on July 20, 2021

  AT A time when the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation are hastily withdrawing their troops from Afghanistan, on top of chaos and...

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  Delta rage jeopardises Eid festivity

  by Mohammad Didare Alam Muhsin | Updated at 12:00am on July 20, 2021

  SPECIAL festivals on specific days have played an important role in human society from time to time to break the monotony of daily life and...

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  Engaging with extremism

  by Jill Richardson | Updated at 12:00am on July 20, 2021

  IN MY research, I repeatedly hear the same refrain: ‘If people knew what I knew, they would believe what I believe.’ Followed by: ‘We need...

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  Herd immunity and some other epidemiological issues

  by Abu Muhammad Zakir Hussain | Updated at 12:00am on July 20, 2021

  WE HAVE heard the term ‘herd immunity’ time and again by now. But we still sound confused when we talk about it in reference to...

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  Contemporary importance of national liberation

  Yanis Iqbal | Updated at 12:00am on July 19, 2021

  IN TODAY’S world, the principal contradiction is between imperialism and humanity. Giant multinational corporations are fleecing the globe for their own interests, forming international networks...

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  Will Afghanistan become everybody else’s problem?

  Henry Kamens | Updated at 12:00am on July 19, 2021

  THE situation in Afghanistan is like the ending of Charlie’s Wilson war. In the endgame there is no saving face and no victory is won....

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  Another summer of needless sufferings

  J Ismael | Updated at 12:00am on July 19, 2021

  MY FAMILY and I—my wife, our young son, our elders, and the twin baby girls who will be born to us this week—ask the world...

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  Targeted and coordinated approach needed

  Muhammad Morshed | Updated at 12:00am on July 19, 2021

  WHILE Covid-19 at its peak and more than 200 people have been dying every day for over a week now, the re-emergence of dengue virus...

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  On brink of war with China in 2026

  by Michael T Klare | Updated at 12:00am on July 18, 2021

  Michael T Klare calls attention to the statements coming out of the US department of defence and the upper ranks of Congress these days IT’S...

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  Consultation is key

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on July 18, 2021

  A MEASURE undertaken by the government of India illustrates how unimaginative governments can be; especially in not reckoning with public reaction. On July 8, the...