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The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor. Allen Lane, 302 pp., £25, June 2010, 978 1 84614 173 7Show More Khrushchev’s speech in 1956 denouncing Stalin’s crimes was a political act from which, as his biographer William Taubman put it, ‘the Soviet regime never fully recovered, and neither did he.’ Although it was plainly opportunistic, there was just as plainly mo
Officials say a shift in U.S. war strategy has begun to take place in Afghanistan, away from classic counterinsurgency (protecting the population, providing basic services, promoting good government) and toward the traditional business of killing and capturing bad guys. Counterinsurgency (or COIN, as it’s often called) is hardly dead. Many U.S. troops are still very much engaged in COIN operations
Mr Erdogan's scarf at the Germany-Turkey game seemed to portray two cultures happily intertwined When German Chancellor Angela Merkel sat beside Recep Tayyip Erdogan as their two countries played each other at football earlier in the month, nothing could have seemed friendlier. The Turkish prime minister's scarf even combined the colours of both teams, integrated nicely in the fabric. Like our two
Today, Andrei Lugovoi said it was time for Britain to "move on" from Litvinenko's agonising death four years ago, and to drop attempts to extradite him to the UK. Speaking before William Hague's arrival in Russia, on his first visit to Moscow as foreign secretary, Lugovoi said he would never travel to Britain to stand trial. "The British press has trampled on my reputation. My family and I have su
Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party was forced to disband under new election laws Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will refuse to vote in the general election on 7 November. Her lawyer, Nyan Win, said that although her name was on a voters' list, she would not take part in a poll organised by the military. Ms Suu Kyi's party won a landslide victory in the last election in 1990 but t
The Afghan girl featured on a controversial Time magazine cover in the US has been given a new prosthetic nose. Aisha told Time her nose and ears had been cut off - with the approval of a Taliban commander - by her abusive husband as punishment for running away. The front cover generated debate over the headline "What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan" and over the use of the photo itself. Her surge
A group of 23 Communist Party elders in China has written a letter calling for an end to the country's restrictions on freedom of speech. The letter says freedom of expression is promised in the Chinese constitution but not allowed in practice. They want people to be able to freely express themselves on the internet and want more respect for journalists. The call comes just days after the Chinese
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