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The NBA Africa is making a play for expansion. Where does Barack Obama fit in?
North Korea clearly understands that going straight into high-level negotiations isn’t always the way to make a breakthrough.
The mistrust between the two Koreas is so deep that there are more sceptics than enthusiasts over North Korea’s involvement in the Winter Olympics.
In these Olympics more than most, there is less global attention on the medal count than on who will win the politics.
History shows Olympic Games have only very limited ability to promote peace between warring nations.
In a sporting diplomatic coup, North and South Korea will march under a unified flag at Pyeongchang 2018.
North Korea sending a delegation to this year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea may be a global shadow puppet show – or it might help thaw the frozen relations between the two countries.
After the Scottish National Party had a bad result at the 1992 general election, deputy leader Jim Sillars famously accused the Scots of being “90-minute patriots”. His point, to paraphrase wildly, was…
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