Malaysian Transportation Minister Anthony Loke found himself the unlikely protagonist of an accidental comedy this past week—a diplomatic pantomime staged, of all places, in the labyrinthine gloom of an underground hotel parking lot. The scene: Minister Loke, bearing the earnest weight of...
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It wasn’t so long ago that the word “Taliban” in Russian news broadcasts was synonymous with terror, extremism, and dark mutterings about security threats spreading like mold toward the borders of the former Soviet Union. For over two decades, Moscow’s official line was as frozen as Siberian...
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