The thorn in Russia's flesh
Russian President Boris Yeltsin is critically ill again, the country is embroiled in yet another murderous war with Chechnya and still there is no miracle cure for the state's many political and economic ailments. Abdel-Malik Khalil reports from Moscow
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BJP's
potpourri
Indian voters have renewed the mandate of the Indian People's Party (BJP), but they have hardly given Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee an enthusiastic popular endorsement, writes Dominic Coldwell
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A week in the world
The aliens have landed
On Monday, Robert Shapiro, chairman of Monsanto, the second-largest seed company in the world, wrote to Gordon Conway, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and born-again anti-biotechnology campaigner, pledging not to commercialise one of the most controversial technological innovations of the twentieth century -- the so-called Terminator technology.
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Setting
fascism free
The unprecedented electoral success of the Austrian far right spells disaster not just for Europe's immigrant communities, says Sameh Naguib, but for the whole of humanity
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