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Democracy is thought to have been introduced as early as 550 BCE in ancient Athens. It wasn’t democracy as we understand it today as only men with status, land and property were allowed to vote. The chaos of 600 men trying to decide on legislation helped decide Plato that democracy was one step away from anarchy. The modern form of ...

AFRICA: Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in the capital, Bamako, to try to free hostages taken after it was stormed by gunmen. The hotel says 138 people remain inside. The gunmen stormed it shooting and shouting “God is great!” in Arabic, eyewitnesses say. Malian officials said 30 hostages have been freed. State TV earlier put the ...

Hallucination My eyes slither on a glittering frame That encloses photograph of my sweetheart. My scattered words will render her true fame Blown by media like embers from a hearth. I am followed by her twinkling brown eyes Where ever I step across the room. I wonder whether she can hear the cries That arise from my burning soul in ...

SYDNEY: Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the oldest stars ever seen, dating from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the universe was just 300 million years old. The nine stars, found near the centre of the Milky Way, are surprisingly pure but contain material from an even earlier star, which died in an enormous explosion called ...

BRUSSELS: EU ministers hold emergency talks today on tightening border checks after the killing of the ringleader of the Paris attacks in an apartment in the French capital raised troubling questions about the bloc’s security. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan origin suspected of masterminding the attacks that left 129 people dead in the name of the Islamic State group, ...

UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. diplomat tasked with trying to bring Syria’s warring parties together said Thursday that a cease-fire covering large parts of the country is not unrealistic. Staffan de Mistura told reporters that previous efforts at localized truces had failed because they lacked the backing of regional and international players who have influence over the parties. “There are indications,” he ...

WASHINGTON: The US has no role to play in Kashmir issue and it is for India and Pakistan to address the problem through dialogue, a top American official has said. This comes a day after visiting Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif raised the matter with US Secretary of State John Kerry. Expressing concern over violence on the line of ...

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FRANCE: The ringleader in last week’s bloody terrorist attacks in Paris died in a pre-dawn raid Wednesday on an apartment building north of the French capital, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced Thursday. Authorities zeroed in on a building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis after picking up phone conversations indicating that a relative of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who authorities believe coordinated ...

Germany has declared that 130 more German soldiers would be sent to Afghanistan. Despite that most of the NATO countries have withdrawn their military presence in Afghanistan, Germany still keeps 750 soldiers in Afghanistan. The additional 130 soldiers would raise the German military presence in Afghanistan to 980. The deployment of more German soldiers in Afghanistan comes after the Taliban ...