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GLOBAL PULSE: US flip-flops and signs deal with Qatar, Putin offers asylum to James Comey and the most extravagant parking spot

US FLIP-FLOPS ON QATAR, SIGNS F 15 DEAL In a latest twist to the series of diplomatic contradictions in the Trump administration, U.S. just signed...

GLOBAL PULSE: China approves nine Trump business trademarks, Singapore ruling family’s feud is now on Facebook, and a mosque called Mary

CHINA’S GIFTS TO TRUMP BUSINESS The Chinese government granted preliminary approval for nine Donald Trump trademarks it had previously rejected.

GLOBAL PULSE: Americans are not winning in Afghanistan, punishing nations that don’t take refugees and being blocked by Trump

FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN WITHOUT A STRATEGY US Defense Secretary James Mattis made an alarming admission: “We are not winning in Afghanistan right now.”

GLOBAL PULSE: Theresa May is contrite but not on her knees, Norway to ban burqa and China bans celebrity gossip sites

THERESA MAY IS CONTRITE, BUT NOT ON HER KNEES Diminished, contrite and defiant, Theresa May faced one of her toughest audiences — her own MPs.

GLOBAL PULSE: Worries about Chinese safety in OBOR projects in Pakistan, Obama’s trolling ways and Israeli journalist is fined for defamation

WILL CHINESE NATIONALS BE SAFE IN PAKISTAN? Pakistan is beefing up security around Chinese citizens streaming into the country to implement Beijing’s “Belt and Road” infrastructure spending.

GLOBAL PULSE: Comey’s G-Man act, Corbyn loses but wins big and Kenya’s Lunatic Express

JAMES COMEY PLAYS BOTH G-MAN AND VICTIM The Washington Post said Comey's was a it the “performance of a lifetime”.

GLOBAL PULSE: How to keep Trump away from Twitter on Thursday, Putin’s alpha-male talk, and the Chinese military wants new overseas bases

HOW TO KEEP TRUMP BUSY ON THURSDAY Trump's aides have been urging him to resist engaging, and they hope to keep him busy during the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey

GLOBAL PULSE: Nepal gets a new PM, paying for fathers in Germany and a Russian hand suspected in Qatar’s crisis

RUSSIA AGAIN? Is Russia behind Qatar's isolation by Saudi Arabia and the UAE? CNN reports the US is aiding Qatar in the investigation of the fake news report that some believe is the cause for the rift in the region.

GLOBAL PULSE: Why Qatar’s isolation is boosting oil prices, should we believe Trump’s tweets and did Russia hack US voting machines?

WHY QATAR'S ISOLATION IS CAUSING OIL PRICES TO RISE Qatar has been targeted multiple times in the past for its ties with Iran but never to this extent.

GLOBAL PULSE: Qatar’s isolation, Nikki Haley’s smart politics and curbs on religious names in Xinjiang

THE ISOLATION OF QATAR In the region’s most serious diplomatic crisis in years, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain have broken off...

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.