Punch and prejudice
Immigration and racism feature prominently in the run-up to British general elections on 7 June, writes Gavin Bowd from London

'Never again'
In 1994, 800,000 Rwandans were butchered. A Belgian court is now trying four Rwandans for genocide. Jasper Thornton asks why genocide happened, and whether it may happen again

Tour de force
Money talks and the penniless are obliged to listen. That appears to be the main lesson drawn from the maiden African tour of the US secretary of state, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Catching up with corruption
Khaled Dawoud reports from The Hague as senior anti-corruption officials from all over the world gathered to discuss means of combating corruption

Islam, iconography and the Taliban
The Taliban destroyed the Buddha statues at Bamiyan in the name of Islam. By so doing they betrayed their woeful grasp of Islamic theology, argues Mohamed Hashim Kamali

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