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Khashoggi killing a ‘tremendous mistake’, says Saudi minister, and spot-fixing scandal hits cricket

Thousands of migrants march to Mexican city of Tapachula, and Japan faces a burial issue.

Washington Post publishes Jamal Khashoggi’s last column, and Donald Trump believes he is dead

Streets in China likely to be lit up by 'artificial moon' in two years and an early spring for Japan. 

Theresa May OK with delayed Brexit, and a rebellion against Mark Zuckerberg

Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing spotted in public three months after disappearance and US looks to China's neighbours for trade. 

Marijuana is now legal in Canada, and the Jamal Khashoggi mystery deepens

Sexism and harassment 'prevalent' in European parliaments, and a dating site for Trump supporters launches on a sour note.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer, and Saudi Arabia to admit to Khashoggi’s death

US President Donald Trump says climate change scientists have political agenda, and 93-year-old crowned 'Miss Holocaust Survivor'.

Melania Trump’s jacket explanation, and Saudi Arabia plans for Jamal Khashoggi case

Stephen Hawking's superhuman race prediction, and Brazil elects first indigenous woman to Congress.

US silence over Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance, and the bad Instagram business

Ethiopian PM does press-ups with protesting soldiers, and a new rule for overweight people in a Greek island. 

Melania Trump wants proof with sexual assault claims, and China ‘legalises’ Uyghur camps

Donald Trump says daughter Ivanka would be 'dynamite' as Nikki Haley successor, and the China firm helping Indians answer calls with greasy hands. Sexual assault...

An all-women clerk team for Brett Kavanaugh, and trade war dims US, China growth outlook

UK government appoints world's first minister for suicide prevention, and Taylor Swift's appeal 'boosts voter registration in US'.

Donald Trump faces ‘campaign manipulation’ storm, and Google+ to shut down

US President Donald Trump has called allegations of sexual harassment against Kavanaugh a 'hoax', and an art installation to understand warming.

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.