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Global Pulse: Italy has voted, and exit polls indicate that there is no clear majority

Vandana Menon -
According to exit polls, Italy might have the 31 year old Luigi Di Maio as PM, but the country would have to wait to find out what kind of govt it will get.
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Global Pulse: Chinese investment in Pakistan might depend on the country’s security issues

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Pakistan is clamping down on domestic terrorism, with civilian deaths from extremist attacks dropping from over 3,000 in 2013 to 540 last year.
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Global Pulse: Australia hopes its new deputy prime minister can stabilise its weak coalition

Vandana Menon -
Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's prime minister, can breathe a sigh of relief now that his coalition has a new deputy prime minister.
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Global Pulse: Xi Jinping is now allowed to be in power forever

Vandana Menon -
The Chinese Communist Party has removed a limit on the number of presidential terms, essentially making Xi Jinping president for life.
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Global Pulse: The Venezuelan exodus is now Latin America’s worst refugee crisis

Vandana Menon -
The human outflow from Venezuela is now more than 1.1 million people — which makes it the largest displacement of people in Latin America.
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Global Pulse: The investigations on Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu are heating up

Vandana Menon -
Last week, the Israeli police recommended that Netanyahu be indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in two corruption investigations.
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Global Pulse: The UN has called for an end to “hell on Earth” in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta

Vandana Menon -
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, called Ghouta a “hell on Earth.”
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Global Pulse: Germany’s hate speech law isn’t fixing the problem of online hate

Vandana Menon -
In other news, China’s latest family-planning policies are a major violation of women’s rights.
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Global Pulse: Italy is witnessing the resurrection of Silvio Berlusconi in its search for stability

Vandana Menon -
In the run up to the upcoming Italian elections, Silvio Berlusconi has somehow become a reliable "candidate of calm."
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Global Pulse: Turkish officials have begun describing the country’s military deployment in Syria as “jihad”

Vandana Menon -
Turkey seems to be slowly moving along the path of mainstreaming jihad, a step towards enacting full sharia law.
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India’s GDP to grow at 6.9% in 2024 — UN agency revises its January projection of 6.2%

Moksha M. Munoth -
Latest report by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs says global growth to be faster than estimated earlier & India’s 'robust performance' to boost South Asia’s growth.

Defence

With defence push, India looks to capture markets in Africa beyond western Indian Ocean

Smruti Deshpande -
India’s defence sector is trying to penetrate the African market. But with China already extending significant influence, India must now play catch-up.      

National Interest

Abki baar 90 paar for Congress? Why even 30 more seats will ruffle BJP

Shekhar Gupta -
Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?

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