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Maldives opposition wins tense poll, and Yemen may run out of food in three months

French President Emmanuel Macron's popularity falls further, and Nepal set to achieve major tiger conservation goal. Opposition claims victory in Maldives presidential elections Maldives opposition leader...

FB won’t offer ‘direct help’ to poll campaigns, and Titanic relics to save bankrupt company

How UNICEF's storytelling tents are helping Somalia send children to school, and a discussion on the Nobel Prize in literature. 

North Korea agrees to shut down missile site, and meet Facebook’s ‘fake news’ fighters

Hillary Clinton warns about an 'unchecked' Trump, and China lashes out at Sweden after tourists 'dragged out of hotel'. 

Massive corruption expose in Maldives and China’s latest tariffs on US goods

China accuses Taiwan of recruiting university students as spies and the horror at a Kenyan hospital.

Sri Lanka calls back top envoys for not answering phone & Meghan Markle’s new solo project

Theresa May dictates Brexit deal and an Uzbekistani music concert with a twist. 

A Chinese actress is missing after ‘tax evasion’ & a new marathon world record

US may impose fresh tariffs on Chinese goods, and Trump's contribution to the new world order. 

Prince William confuses Japan with China, and Trump sees conspiracy in hurricane death toll

France acknowledges torture in Algerian war, and Aung San Suu Kyi defends crackdown on Reuters journalists 

US invites China for trade talks, and getting high in zero gravity

Nine-year-old suspended by Australian school after she refuses to rise for the national anthem, and a new weapon in the war on plastic pollution.

Trump’s ‘unpresidential’ Twitter activity & why Saudi Arabia arrested a man over breakfast

Scores of migrants have died off the Libyan coast, and Alibaba's new venture in Russia.

China aims for the poles, and cartoonist slammed for ‘racist’ Serena Williams cartoon

Washington has decided to shut down the Palestinian mission, and publisher of Bob Woodward book braces for sale rush ahead of launch.

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.