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Video: Olympics hero Oscar Pistorius races a horse in Qatar
Olympic and Paralympic hero Oscar Pistorius took on a new kind of challenge yesterday, racing against a horse in Qatar.
By James Legge | Sport | Thursday, 13 December 2012 at 5:03 pm
Syria: Something must be done
I am no foreign policy expert, and so until now I have refrained from writing anything about Syria. Until now, I have instead confined myself to tweeting my simultaneous senses of frustration, helplessness and anguish about the situation, whilst faithfully following those on Twitter whom I have deemed better placed, either emotionally or intellectually, to comment on this crisis than I. (I have included here a list of Twitter accounts – some contentious, all compelling – that I have found indispensable to my embryonic understanding of what is going on.)
By Musa Okwonga | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 8 February 2012 at 4:33 pm
The enemy we don’t know…
On Tuesday, Foreign Ministers and political leaders met for the London Conference on Libya. No-one raised the question of why a discussion on Libya should be held in the United Kingdom, a former colonial power of the Arab world.
“But we have the support of the Arab League!” the war mongerers in Downing Street proclaim, as [...]
By Jody McIntyre | The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 10:24 am
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