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More than five decades after Pakistan lost its naval presence in the Bay of Bengal during the 1971 war, Islamabad is signalling a return to the region with a new generation of
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As Keir Starmer’s political career reaches a dramatic turning point following his recent resignation as prime minister, attention has returned to a less examined chapter of his public life: his years as
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When the first tremor struck on the holiday afternoon of June 24, Marisol Rojo was standing inside a friend’s apartment in Caracas’s Chacao municipality, unaware that within seconds the building around her
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