Krishnan Guru-Murthy
India’s Commonwealth Games : no superpower effort
Krishnan Guru-Murthy blogs on why the screw ups surrounding the Commonwealth Games in Delhi feel so predictable
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Boris Johnson to run again for London mayor
London mayor Boris Johnson announces he wants to run for a second term as London mayor, potentially setting up a re-run of 2008’s contest with Ken Livingstone.
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Jon Snow
Paralympics: on a wheel and a prayer
The fact is that you need to be entering the scoring area with some speed before you hurl the ball.
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Jon Snow
The horrible possibility of good news
Jon Snow blogs on how the 2012 Olympics risks becoming a good news story for the UK
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Jon Snow
Finally interviewing Brazilian President Lula da Silva
I am standing on a balcony sixteen floors above the Amazon leaning on the railing talking with Brazil’s President Lula. An exceptional life story has taken him from a 12-year-old shoeshine boy, via work at a sheet metal factory where he lost the little finger of his left hand in an industrial accident, to his…
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Brazil: flexing diplomatic muscles on the world stage
Jon Snow is not the only one in Brazil this week. While he is there exploring Brazil’s response to climate change, Middle Eastern leaders have also been flying in for some high profile visits. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – Lula to you and I – has been hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in…
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Jon Snow
In the midst of a tectonic shift in the new world order
Last night I found myself in the ornate circumstance of the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall. I also found myself too in the midst of a tectonic shift in the new world order. For this was an event in which the old world of European kings and queens were making way for a citizen of the…
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US eyes will be on Copenhagen this week.
US and Iranian diplomats site down for the first direct talks in 30 years in Geneva on Thursday. But Americans are at least as interested in what happens in Copenhagen the next day, when the IOC announces the host city for the 2016 Olympics.
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Violence belies China vision of 'harmonious society'
The sign outside Beijing’s famous attraction used to draw a lot of attention from tourists: it read “Racist Park.” Just before the Olympics last year, the authorities realised that their English translation might be a bit problematic, so they changed it to “Chinese Ethnic Culture Park.” The theme park is supposed to showcase the cultural…
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Blocks on reporting the Sri Lanka fighting
We obtained some disturbing footage of apparent attacks on Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka yesterday. The pictures – many of which we didn’t broadcast because they were too gruesome – showed rows of dead children, who had allegedly been killed by government shelling of the supposed “safe area” in the north of the island. Note…
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Jon Snow
Exsanguating? Well, don't try it at home
I return from my “hostile environment” course with the word exsanguate ringing in my ears. It’s not a word I knew. But you cannot deal with battlefield scenarios without coming across the appalling prospect of an arterial bleed. Pumping red, the stuff exsanguates from the body, and the only response, if it is in the…
