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Although US President Donald Trump suggested last week that a nuclear deal with Iran was “close,” that doesn’t actually seem to be the case as both…

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Since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, relations between the two neighbours have remained tense, fluctuating between fragile truces and…

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Having defied world opinion since the start of its uncompromising military campaign in Gaza, Israel suddenly finds itself under mounting…