A monitoring organisation claims that, with or without Taliban cooperation, Al-Qaeda has “blended itself with the TTP.” The Taliban’s claim that terrorist organisations are not using Afghan territory for cross-border violence has been rejected by a United Nations Security Council report, which calls the claim “not credible” and warns that neighbouring states increasingly view Afghanistan […]
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John Cage’s visual art as transporting and mystifying as his music
“There is no end to life,” John Cage wrote in 1990, two years before he died. John Cage, one of the 20th Century’s most inventive composers, devoted his music to silence and created confounding scores using “chance operations” from the “I Ching.” He also wrote beautifully; and late in life he applied his chance methods […]