Geopolitics and India's place in the world: diplomacy, conflict, alliances and the global events that touch Indian lives.
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After the Oak Creek gurudwara shooting, a look back: early Punjabi immigrants in California built lives under prejudice — and married across cultures.
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For the first time in 2012, Mitt Romney crossed 40% with 18–29-year-olds in a JZ Analytics poll — a warning sign for Obama’s youth-vote machine.
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Paul Ryan became Mitt Romney’s VP pick in August 2012 — and instantly a political sex symbol, as P90X fame and shirtless photos broke the internet.
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Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his 2012 running mate — energizing the GOP base while handing Democrats the potent attack line of the Ryan Budget.
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Around 60 Hindu families from Pakistan's Balochistan and Sindh arrived in India in August 2012, fleeing violence, kidnappings and forced conversions.
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Russian police found 70 members of the Fayzarahmanist sect — including 20 children — living in an underground bunker near Kazan for nearly a decade.
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The Romney campaign launched the 'Mitt's VP' app on July 31, 2012, letting supporters be the first to learn his vice presidential pick via push notification.
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Five things known about James Holmes after his first court appearance: his past, his dating profiles, and how he spent months preparing the attack.
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Syria publicly admitted for the first time to possessing chemical and biological weapons in July 2012, warning they could be used against foreign attack.
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Genevieve Cook, Barack Obama's New York girlfriend, kept a diary. David Maraniss's biography reveals what she wrote about the young future president.
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In the Aurora theater massacre, James Holmes' 100-round drum magazine jammed mid-attack — a malfunction officials said likely prevented an even worse toll.
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Nouriel Roubini argued in July 2012 that the US recovery was a 'fairy tale', giving five reasons growth would slow to stall speed — and drag the world down
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Anne-Marie Slaughter's July 2012 Atlantic essay — written after leaving her State Department post for her family — argued that 'having it all' was never
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On July 20, 2012, a gunman opened fire during a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and wounding dozens.
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In July 2012, John McCain insisted his 2008 choice of Sarah Palin over Mitt Romney had nothing to do with Romney's tax returns — which McCain had seen 23
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A 2012 analysis of OMB data found federal spending grew slowest under Obama since Eisenhower — but the finding turned on which president 'owned' the 2009
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After Jane Pitt's anti-Obama letter went national in July 2012, the vicious online backlash reportedly left Brad Pitt's mother shaken and fearful.
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In July 2012, video circulated of Najiba, a 22-year-old Afghan woman in Parwan province, being publicly shot by a gunman as a crowd of men looked on.
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Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign promised to run government like a business. What would McKinsey-style management consulting actually mean for the federal
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In July 2012, Vanity Fair detailed Mitt Romney's offshore holdings — Swiss and Cayman accounts — and the $100-million question of his enormous IRA.
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