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MJ Akbar THE lips said it, the mind read it. Some hours after war broke out in the White House...

MJ Akbar AS I write, 45 years after that war, the Vietnamese Parliament has endorsed a railway line between Vietnam...

MJ Akbar TIME stands still when it counts. A meeting with the Foreign Minister of Vietnam in Muscat during an...

MJ Akbar A literary festival encourages diverse thoughts. A day in serene Bhopal, for a dialogue with Lt General (retired)...

MJ Akbar Acampaign is wandering around select parts of the world that President Donald Trump should get the Nobel Prize...

MJ Akbar The squeals in the first days are loudest in allied capitals. Just in case you have had amnesia,...

MJ Akbar IT may come as a minor surprise or indeed major relief to statusquoist readers to discover that on...

MJ Akbar SANCTIONS? The trade in paperclips must have been sanctioned. Nor did the Russian elite have too many problems...

MJ Akbar Donald Trump is so unpredictable that he is in danger of becoming predictable. First, let us pay genuine...

Blitz Bureau From his “special connect” with Chinese premier Xi Jinping to his visa rejection in 2005 by the US,...