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Unity of purpose
The smoothness with which the Pakistan People’s Party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Sharif), and the Awami National Party went about forming a federal cabinet and distributing portfolios augurs well for the coherence of the coalition. ...

Mitigating emissions in cities
The United Nations conference on climate change, now on in Bangkok, is expected to produce an agreement to cut global emissions drastically by 2050. Over the years, countries committed to cutting emissions have submitted their estimates to ...

Leader Page Articles
Travelling with the John McCain presidency
By M.K. Bhadrakumar

Anyone who thought the neocon dogma would be gone with the George W. Bush presidency will get a surprise on reading Senator John McCain’s Los Angeles speech.

News Analysis
Post-election crisis: Kenya cannot solve it alone
By Wangari Maathai

International help to end the crisis is not meddling but a moral duty, and Kenyan leaders must embrace it.

Warning on drugs for Alzheimer’s patients in nursing homes
By Sarah Boseley

Even over a six-month period of treatment, there is no benefit from the drugs in treating the behaviour in people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Corrections and clarifications
In “Sounding the alarm bells” (Editorial, April 1, 2008), a sentence in the first paragraph was “… During the week that ended on March 15, the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation surged to 6.56 per ...

INSIDE NEPAL
Transition time: the past is over, only the future counts
By Siddharth Varadarajan

For king and commoner, revolutionary and reformist, the tide of change in Nepal is irreversible. But if the Maoists know there’s no going back to the gun, the erstwhile establishment must also be prepared to live with the inclusive republic the people want.

Bedouin pushed out of Negev desert
By Rory McCarthy

A community resists Israel’s efforts to move families from disputed land.

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