Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taught general who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it from colonial rule and later forced the Americans to abandon their effort to save the country from communism, has died.

Where I Left My Soul

THE IRA wants peace. Perhaps. But it wants power even more. Hence, the ‘harm offensive’ of the IRA becomes the charm offensive of Sinn Féin when dealing with Dublin.

THE Americans are promising democracy in Iraq, but at the same time they are saying that they are not going to allow a fundamentalist regime come to power there.