Personae non gratae

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Paul Theroux’s Narrow Escape

Arts, Culture & Media

Over the last 50 years, the writer Paul Theroux has visited most of the countries on Earth, And his novels are often about people more or less like him: people who go somewhere alien, and maybe find out who they are.

The Astonishing Comeback of Britain’s George Galloway

Global Politics
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India’s ‘Most Admired and Most Feared’ Politician Stirs Controversy in US

Global Politics
The World

India Gets Serious About Cartoons

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Muslims Tuning in for Obama’s Middle East Speech

Global Politics

One week after the fall of Mubarak

Conflict & Justice

Hundreds of thousands of people in Cairo’s Tahrir Square have been celebrating the overthrow one week ago of Hosni Mubarak as Egypt’s president. The World’s Ben Gilbert went to Tahrir Square.