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Time for action on aid
To increase economic parity worldwide, developed countries must live up to their commitments to streamline aid and remove barriers to trade writes the UN Millennium Campaign founder
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Who's behind the Thai protests?
The paradox for western observers is that, as the protests in Thailand show, these elites can have genuine mass support
An odyssey in black and white
A season of vintage South African films takes us on an atmospheric - if occasionally bizarre - journey back through the dark days of apartheid
The art of collaboration
In occupied France, how did artists and intellectuals respond to the presence of the enemy? And would we have done any better?
The making of a magician
Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
Gerald Martin
Bloomsbury, 688pp, £25
Rough crossings
York Membery looks back to an era when scores of poor Britons sailed the Atlantic in search of a better life
Refugees face enemies within
Observations on the Lebanon
Resisting Persecution
The Bahá’í faith supports human rights and interactions with other religions, yet the believers have faced persecution in Iran for decades.
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I pardon you turkey
George W Bush has pardoned a turkey to mark Thanksgiving but it's the president's power to grant leniency to former allies who have fallen foul of the law that's causing speculation
In North America
The team of rivals thing
For Barack Obama, forgiveness has few bounds if it means he can surround himself with the best people - and that includes a former enemy, Hillary Clinton
In Human Rights
Plight of the unpeople
Britain happily colludes in the great state crimes of other western governments. Take the law lords' betrayal of the Chagos Islanders
