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TopicBarack Obama

Topic: Barack Obama

18 years, 2,300 deaths & $978 bn later, why America’s Afghan war is being called a failure

The figures were revealed in an investigative report, titled The Afghanistan Papers, published by The Washington Post Monday.

Technology is further dividing the world, says Barack Obama

Barack Obama said globalisation and the internet was turbocharging a rise of extreme inequality, making it one of the biggest risks for young people.

Trump reinforces middle easterners’ view of U.S. as unreliable and weak

President Trump’s decision to move troops out of Syria reinforces America's growing reputation in the Middle East as unreliable and unpredictable.

Michelle Obama’s love note, Priyanka mourns a friend, & what Katju predicts

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Trump has finally accepted Modi’s friend request and all is well

Modi has at last found a way to be useful to Trump.

Trump is in danger of repeating Obama’s Iran mistake

Obama’s fundamental Iran mistake was to make the confrontation with Tehran almost exclusively about nuclear weapons.

US to no longer release details on number of civilians killed in its drone strikes

US govt was earlier required to publish an annual report on the number of civilians killed in drone strikes on high-value terrorists in countries like Pakistan.

Wooing Saudis after Pulwama was important & Modi did the right thing by hugging MBS

One of Narendra Modi’s key foreign policy prongs has been to improve relations with the Arab world, especially UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Former US president George H W Bush dies at 94

George HW Bush, a decorated war pilot and former CIA chief, helped steer America through the end of the Cold War while serving as the country's 41st president.

It’s Trump versus Obama before the US midterm polls, and Brexit is making UK lawyers anxious

UK top lawyers and business leaders ask PM May for another vote on Brexit, and Sri Lanka's President reconvenes Parliament for trust vote.

On Camera

Modi govt’s repeal of MGNREGA is all about extracting money from states, not reform

The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.