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The radicals in the Maoists

A political agreement signed on 1 November was finally supposed to allow former Maoist combatants in Nepal to move ahead with their lives. Instead, the response has been mostly anger and accusations of duplicity.

| Dec 01, 2011

A fatal intersection

Three small shops in northwestern Sri Lanka no longer exist.

| Jun 01, 2010

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