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Strategic Shift

In the volatile landscape of West Asia, Israel stands as a beacon of resilience amid perpetual turmoil.

Trapped in the Darien Gap

The Darien Gap is a stretch of densely forested jungle across northern Colombia and southern Panama. Roughly 60 miles (97 kilometres) across, the terrain is muddy, wet and unstable. No paved roads exist in the Darien Gap. Yet despite this, it has become a major route for global human migration.

American deal

Avery benign god seems to have smiled sweetly at an expectant world, or an impressive array of its cricket entrepreneurs, when Major League Cricket of Twenty20 matches got going in the US of A last week. It's time for hallelujahs from the Indian diaspora, with Brits across the pond, so dramatically alarmed weeks ago when Test cricket’s superstars came to be known to be close to switching loyalties by taking annual jobs Indian Premier League franchises were offering.

Blow to Biden

It is an interesting parallel. In 1948, writes American political commentator and academic William A. Galston, US President Harry Truman was on the ropes. He was personally unpopular and faced breakaway candidates to his left (former Vice President Henry Wallace), and to his right (Strom Thurmond).

Car crazy

Americans are notoriously car dependent. Anecdotal evidence ranging from newspaper reports to memes on social media and the writings of that incomparable observer of societies Bill Bryson would suggest the American obsession with the automobile has reached possible disorder levels.