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Europe

The 'Great Game': Fiction and folly in world empire

Revisiting Hopkirk's 1995 novel on the Imperial struggle over Central Asia, is today's war in Europe — and perhaps China — that different?

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Asia-Pacific

Have the Afghan people been forgotten?

20 million are going hungry as frozen funds and equally frozen diplomacy keep this country in a frightening state of limbo.