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The destruction of Gaza
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Ten people who could change the world
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‘‘You want to free the world from oppression? "
Ariel Dorfman on the life and work of Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
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From Baltimore to Baghdad
The writing team behind The Wire has taken on the war in Iraq. The result is a new miniseries that challenges preconceptions on all sides
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The serial killer of Kittur
Exclusive publication of a short story by the Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger
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Pilgrimage to nowhere
A year on from Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Fatima Bhutto visits the family mausoleum and reflects on the poisonous legacy of her late aunt, a woman
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