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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicBerlin Wall

Topic: Berlin Wall

It wasn’t Reagan, Gorbachev or Bush who brought down Berlin Wall

In reality, Ronald Reagan’s speech — in which he exhorted Soviet leader Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall' — didn’t have any magical influence on East Germany’s collapse.

Why Russian President Vladimir Putin is a ‘shrewd’ tactician but ‘lousy’ strategist

ThePrint takes a look at how the implosion of the Soviet Union and the decade long chaos that ensued had a lasting effect on Putin.

US media unites against Donald Trump attack, and another sex abuse ‘cover-up’

A migrant ship with pregnant women and children is stranded at sea, and a surprise discovery in Berlin.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.