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I came back to Tokyo late last year after having served in Baghdad as Japan's ambassador to Iraq. It was a great relief to return home after several…

For much of the past two decades, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was barred from filmmaking by his government. But even when he was put under house…

When Russian President Vladimir Putin bestowed the country’s highest honour on Sergei Lavrov, Moscow’s long-serving foreign minister, earlier this…

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