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Javier Milei made global headlines when he won a landslide victory with a promise to implement 366 'emergency measures' and take his famous chainsaw to a slather of government departments. All looked good for the most sweeping reforms in the nation's history -- until El Loca fell out with his vice-president and key coalition partnerApril 6, 2024
13 mins
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Joyful scenes cement Cappadocia as a place of escapism, romance and wonder, a place for tourists to ride hot-air balloons and marvel and the natural beauty. Indeed, a contemporary traveller might even assume Cappadocia has always been like this and nothing more. Such is the deceptive power of the presentFebruary 4, 2024
12 mins
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Taiwan's national museum boasts a magnificent jade cabbage which Chiang Kai-shek stuffed in his suitcase before fleeing across the Formosa Strait. Canada also has a cabbage, this one by the name of Justin. And Britain? Well it has vegetables of its own, not least the occupant of 10 Downing StreetJanuary 16, 2019
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A visit to the Hindu temple complex at Khajuraho, miraculous survivor of India's Muslim invasion, provides rather more than an opportunity to admire a vast assembly of remarkable friezes. It also prompts thoughts of Islam's compulsion to dominate and destroyMay 14, 2016
6 mins
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I discovered my camera was gone halfway across the no-man’s-land […]March 1, 2016
13 mins
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The great attraction of Siberia for three centuries of settlers, free and otherwise, had been the chance to start afresh in a land where no one would ask too many questions about a person’s past. Shaking off history remains the oldest tradition of them allJune 8, 2015
17 mins
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Fly cramped, squeezed and cattle-class to the other side of the world and you'll soon understand what toothpaste feels like in its tube. Or you can make relaxation your companion and ride a freighter. Our intrepid voyager reports....November 23, 2013
11 mins
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I went on a study tour of Israel in June […]
September 29, 2010
31 mins
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Recently David Malouf commented of the Brisbane he recreated in […]
December 1, 2007
10 mins
