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How climate change is impacting the sports industry
Venues such as Australia, India, West Indies and Pakistan may be too hot or too wet for cricket matches
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No more Covid restrictions in the UK: End of pandemic or start of chaos?
The perception that the pandemic has ‘ended’ and people can stop wearing masks can be catastrophic in some countries
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Is America still the world leader?
It's been argued that the US is still the world leader but not the global hegemon; is American supremacy under threat?
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When Urdu was the dominant language in Afghanistan
At no time in Afghanistan’s history did Urdu have more influence in the corridors of power in Kabul than in the 1930s
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How vaccine inequality is impacting South Asia
Obtaining vaccines shouldn’t be a privilege but a fundamental right.
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What did the Afghan Taliban say about future ties with Russia?
Russia isn’t politicising its aid shipments to Afghanistan that are meant to avert its impending humanitarian crisis
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Why is Abhinandan being awarded by India at this point in time?
The purpose is to flood the media with revisionist history and thus deflect from India’s recent setbacks
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Was COP26 a failure?
By Saturday most of the delegates, other than the hardcore negotiating teams ,had already left Glasgow
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Will India host US bases for attacking Afghanistan?
India and the US have comprehensively expanded their military-strategic relations over the past few years
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COP26: Global greenwash or progress to keep 1.5C goal alive?
Pakistan has signed the methane pledge, agreeing to cut methane emissions by 30% by the end of this decade