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Bangalore :21/03/2011. Journalist, Gauri Lankesh in Bangalore on 21st March, 2011. Photo K . Bhagya Prakash

Gauri Lankesh: A dissenter silenced

Gauri Lankesh’s killing, though one in a long line of similar killings of secular writers, activists and public intellectuals in recent months and yea

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 06: Sir John Chilcot presents The Iraq Inquiry Report at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster on July 6, 2016 in London, England. The Iraq Inquiry Report into the UK government's involvement in the 2003 Iraq War under the leadership of Tony Blair is published today. The inquiry, which concluded in February 2011, was announced by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2009 and is published more than seven years later. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Partners in crime

The Iraq Inquiry Report establishes that Tony Blair deceived and misled the public and Parliament on Iraq, and hid uncomfortable information from them

‘It wasn’t us who destroyed the U.K.’

Interview with Paul Mason, Labour Party member, journalist and film-maker.

People react during a referendum results party at the Lexington pub in London, June 23, 2016. Britain has voted to leave the European Union, a historic decision sure to reshape the nationâ€™s place in the world, rattle the Continent and rock political establishments throughout the West. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)

Brexit shock

The Leave verdict in the United Kingdom has spotlighted the despair and anger of its working class that have their origins in the multiple burdens suc

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BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - APRIL 05: Prime Minister David Cameron holds a Q&A session on the forthcoming European Union referendum with staff of PricewaterhouseCoopers on April 5, 2016 in Birmingham, England. The UK will vote on whether or not to remain in the European Union on June 23, 2016. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Brexit or Bremain?

With the referendum just two months away, public education-led engagement with the issues of Brexit remains tardy because politically disparate groups

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Fatal failure

The terror attack on Brussels shows a massive failure of intelligence to check jehadi elements that were flourishing in its own backyard.

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TOPSHOT - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addresses the media holding a printed report of the judgement of the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on his case from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on February 5, 2016.
During a press conference on February 5 Julian Assange, speaking via video-link, called for Britain and Sweden to 'implement' a UN panel finding saying that he should be able to walk free from Ecuador's embassy, where he has lived in self-imposed confinement since 2012. / AFP / NIKLAS HALLE'N

Whistle-blower’s victory

A U.N. panel’s ruling that Julian Assange’s confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London constitutes “arbitrary detention” deals a reputational bl

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Wounded people in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks wait for the start of a ceremony in the courtyard of the Invalides in Paris, Friday, Nov. 27, 2015. France is mourning and honoring those killed in the Nov. 13 attacks in a somber ceremony presided by French President Francois Hollande. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

The night Paris changed

The deadly Paris attacks, which could permanently damage the ‘French way of life’, will also have far-reaching outcomes for Europe, West Asia and the

Labour Party leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in north London, Britain September 11, 2015. Corbyn, the leading candidate to win control of Britain's opposition Labour Party said he would introduce a punitive windfall tax, aimed at recouping money lost by privatising state assets too cheaply, if he becomes prime minister in 2020. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

Swing to the Left

Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto offers an alternative rooted in fairness, decency and social justice, but to win the next elections, the new Labour Party l

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FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2015 file photo, a paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi, 3, after a number of migrants died and others were reported missing when boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized near the Turkish resort of Bodrum. The family — Abdullah, his wife Rehan and their two boys, 3-year-old Aylan and 5-year-old Ghalib — embarked on the perilous boat journey only after their bid to move to Canada was rejected. The tides also washed up the bodies of Rehan and Ghalib on Turkey's Bodrum peninsula Wednesday. Abdullah survived the tragedy. (AP Photo/DHA, File) TURKEY OUT

Tipping point

As refugees from strife-torn West Asian and north African countries flow to Europe, pressure from the public forces European governments to adopt a m

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha return to Number 10 Downing Street after meeting with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in London, Britain May 8, 2015. Prime Minister David Cameron won a stunning election victory in Britain, overturning poll predictions that the vote would be the closest in decades to sweep easily into office for another five years, with his Labour opponents in tatters. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

Stunning victory

David Cameron’s Conservative Party beats all predictions and emerges as the winner in the general election.

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Bold & different

RT, the London-based Russian state-funded broadcasting channel, is the new kid on the block that established players ridicule and fear because it does

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