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Unless Israel is open about its nuclear weapons and joins the non-proliferation treaty, Iran will one day have the bomb, writes Corrado Pirzio-Biroli. Plus, letters by Hubert Cassel, Dr Anthony Isaacs and Randhir Singh BainsI agree with Simon Tisdall’s…
Unless Israel is open about its nuclear weapons and joins the non-proliferation treaty, Iran will one day have the bomb, writes Corrado Pirzio-Biroli. Plus, letters by Hubert Cassel, Dr Anthony Isaacs and Randhir Singh BainsI agree with Simon Tisdall’s…
Over the holidays, this column will explore next year’s urgent issues. Today we look at the crisis in western democracy, Donald Trump’s victory and the role played by digital mediaIn November 2020, shortly after Donald Trump’s defeat in the U…
Hardline general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist party determined to suppress dissentNguyen Phu Trong, who has died aged 80, was the general secretary of the ruling Communist party of Vietnam for the past decade, and he succeeded in bringing th…
Tourism, academia and literature all exhibit signs that trend of closer ties has gone into reverseCultural ties between the US and China are at a low point after several years of decline, according to Guardian analysis of official figures.The Covid-19 …
Indian finance minister hits out after former US president said Modi government should protect rights of MuslimsIndia’s finance minister has derided comments by the former US president Barack Obama that Narendra Modi’s government should protect the rig…
Joe Biden’s hosts have treated him to Tokyo’s finest cuisine, but entertaining US presidents hasn’t always gone to planNorth Korea, China, trade and security. When US presidents visit Japan, the summit agenda practically writes itself. Deciding what to…
Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post used freedom of information to produce the definitive US version of the warIn the summer of 2009, the latest in a long line of US military commanders in Afghanistan commissioned the latest in a long line of strateg…
Return to power of movement’s co-founder embodies Afghanistan’s inability to escape history of conflictTaliban enters Kabul – live updatesAbdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban leader freed from a Pakistani jail on the request of the US less than three years…
President-elect in new CNN film tells of agonized discussions but says he subsequently advised Obama to follow his instinctJoe Biden has revealed why he advised Barack Obama to wait to order the raid which killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011…
Lockdowns around the world continue to loosen as China reports highest level of internal travel since FebruaryCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina’s commercial hub of Shanghai announced the restart of classes for younger st…
Indian prime minister also spoke of growing up poor and developing a love of natureThe Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, joined Bear Grylls on the latter’s survival TV programme Man vs Wild to talk about his relationship with nature and growing up …