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IS claims responsibility for series of assaults. President Hollande says it is an ‘act of war’.
Had the Jacobites triumphed at Sheriffmuir in 1715, Nicola Sturgeon would now be Scottish prime minister.
Narendra Modi’s visit to the UK has gone swimmingly – but the situation at home is far from placid.
The British government’s position is that this was a legitimate act of self-defence in a war zone. But there are other issues to examine.
US and UK claim the man who bragged about decapitating western hostages has probably been killed in an airstrike.
How India’s prime minister secured a rehabilitation from a legacy of post-colonial violence.
British chief of defence staff did cross the line when discussing the nuclear option.
What would they have thought of today’s pygmy politicians?
Western leaders insist that engaging with authoritarian regimes promotes human rights. They are missing the point.
A €1.8bn trust fund is on offer if only African countries will take the problem away.
Israeli goods produced in settlements will have to be labelled as such. Israel is calling this a boycott and raising the spectre of European anti-semitism.
Why it’s an exciting time to be a feminist.
Assembled at the cost of billions of dollars, Iraq’s army has never amounted to much – and it’s not the first foreign-built military to fail so spectacularly.
A new book detailing yet more financial scandal at the Vatican shows the scale of the clean-up operation facing Pope Francis I.
It has taken a long time to write, but the PM still hasn’t produced an entirely realistic plan for reform.
Günter Schabowski’s press conference in November 1989 helped trigger the collapse of the Berlin wall. Was it really as much of an accident as we like to think?
A damning report exposes doping and corruption at every level. And the Russians aren’t likely to take the fall for everyone.
Italian law is very clear on what constitutes a mafia-type organisation. But that definition could change if prosecutors in a high-profile case have their way.
Downing of the Russian Metrojet airliner shows how a hitherto little-known terror group and its Islamic State parent may be adapting their tactics.
There’s far more to anarchy than protests and men in masks.
India is keeping its Africa policy steady, but the shared language of anti-colonialism may fade away.
There are two groups vying to lead the Brexit camp but only one can become the official lead campaign.
Voters in Bihar failed to buy into the antagonistic campaign led by the national prime minister.
With the opposition party on course to win a historic election, it’s time to get serious on some difficult questions.