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Michael Bloomberg donates $1.8 billion to alma mater and Ivanka Trump faces email headache

White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass restored and North California wildfire evacuees desperately seek refugee.

China to become world’s largest theme park market and Macron calls for a stronger Europe

Direct talks between Sri Lankan leaders fail and China launches BeiDou navigation satellites.

Saudi seeks death penalty for 5 in Khashoggi case and Canada is running out of marijuana

Japan's cybersecurity minister in charge admits he's never used a computer and Apple wants to hire trafficking survivors.

Trump favourite Fox supports CNN lawsuit, and toll of California Camp Fire rises to 56

US President Donald Trump is 'angry with everyone', and young activists detained for protests at Chinese universities.

Michelle Obama’s candid memoir and Amazon picks NYC, Virginia for second headquarters

CNN sues White House for correspondent's press pass ban and Melania Trump calls for senior aide to be fired.

Amnesty strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour and Spider-Man creator Stan Lee dies

Justin Trudeau confirms Canadian agents heard recordings related to Khashoggi's killing and a Democrat becomes the first woman to serve in Senate from Arizona.

Macron says nationalism is the opposite of patriotism, and Trump paid off women for silence

'No tension' between Melania and Ivanka Trump and Danny Boyle leads a community remembrance event on British beaches.

US journalists decry Trump move to bar Jim Acosta, and Afghan govt draws flak ahead of peace talks

Dozens of Rohingya refugees flee camps to move to Malaysia, and Prince Charles says he will tone down his activism as a king. 

Trump threatens Democrats with ‘warlike posture’, and Prince Charles speaks in Pidgin

Trump 'compels' US attorney general Jeff Sessions to resign, and Silicon Valley startups continue to take Saudi money.

US midterm elections get ugly with Trump’s racist ad, and Taliban to attend Moscow peace talks

North Korea issues nuclear threat to the US, and Prince Charles says Britain's involvement in transatlantic slavery an 'appalling atrocity'.

On Camera

A new Indian foreign policy consensus is emerging. That India isn’t a great power yet

After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage and military modernisation.

Geoeconomic confrontation top trigger for global crisis, cyber insecurity biggest risk for India—WEF

WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'

The curious case of Pakistan’s JF-17 ‘orders’

Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines. 

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.