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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicJacques Chirac

Topic: Jacques Chirac

Late French President Jacques Chirac saw India as a power, not a land of snake-charmers

Jacques Chirac stood firmly with India when the whole world was turning away after the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests. He died Thursday.

French President Jacques Chirac, who led the opposition against US invasion of Iraq, dies

Jacques Chirac was the first French president to recognise responsibility of the state in deportation of Jews during World War II.

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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.