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GLOBAL PULSE: Israel is worried about intelligence sharing with Trump, a conservative cleric rises in Iran and Japan’s male-only royalty

TRUMP CAN IMPERIL INTELLIGENCE SHARING WITH ISRAEL Can Trump screw up the world’s best intelligence relationship? That is between Israel and the U.S. The intelligence chiefs in Israel are up in arms.

GLOBAL PULSE: More immigrant arrests in the U.S., anti-protest Russian pop song and Macron’s muscular centrism

ARRESTING IMMIGRANTS IN THE U.S. Remember how Donald Trump pledged to weed out undocumented workers and illegal immigrants?

GLOBAL PULSE: An official’s note, decoding Trump’s mind and privacy suits against Facebook

NOTES THAT A PUBLIC SERVANT TOOK Sacked FBI director James Comey took notes, and kept them in the case files.

GLOBAL PULSE: Trump shared classified intel with Russia, Syria’s secret crematorium, and Googlification of the classroom

TRUMP HAS NO FILTER Did Donald Trump share classified intelligence information with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov last week?

GLOBAL PULSE: Small countries turn to hacking, Trump closes the door on information, and Charlie Hebdo mocks French First Lady

HACKING IS 21ST CENTURY’S LOW-COST ESPIONAGE Small countries have a new weapon against Goliaths. It's called hacking.

GLOBAL PULSE: China’s ‘Globalisation 2.0’, London’s global banker status under Brexit threat, and Spain wants to exhume Franco

CHINA IS THE NEW CHAMPION OF GLOBALIZATION China is one of the few countries in the world today with money to spend, and Xi Jinping is ready to write some checks. It is called Globalization 2.0.

GLOBAL PULSE: Britain’s Labour goes back to the ’70s, German military’s Nazi nostalgia and the in-flight ban on laptops

BRITAIN’S LABOUR PARTY GOES BACK IN TIME Struggling to make headway in the ongoing election campaign, Britain's Labour party wants to nationalize rail, mail and energy companies, in a 'transformational programme' for the country.

GLOBAL PULSE: Trump fires FBI chief, Seoul elects a leader who wants to engage with North Korea, and the new non-voters in France.

TRUMP FIRES FBI CHIEF REMINDING AMERICANS OF NIXON In a shocking move, American president Donald Trump has fired FBI chief James Comey. And CNN called...

GLOBAL PULSE: More U.S. troops to Afghanistan is not “America First”, Asia’s ageing population & Google Maps on Durand Line

WILL TRUMP SEND MORE TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN? The war in Afghanistan did not come up much during the U.S. presidential campaign, but it now threatens...

GLOBAL PULSE: Emmanuel Macron’s new, tougher election ahead, Angela Merkel finds unexpected support, and why can’t Trump and Hillary move on.

MACRON HAS ANOTHER ELECTION TO WIN Winning the French presidency was the easy bit. Emmanuel Macron has another bruising election to win in June.

On Camera

NTA was supposed to rescue exams from ‘Munna Bhais’. Now it’s part of the problem

National Testing Agency’s charter is to assess the 'competence of candidates' for admission and recruitment, but NEET and UGC-NET firestorms have put its own competency in question.

How a provision in trade deal with UAE has led to a surge in India’s gold imports

New Delhi: Indians are once again flocking to gold — both physical and digital — in a bid to hedge against economic uncertainty, high...

China does a Galwan in South China Sea, Coast Guard carries spears and knives

Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.

Modi’s new universe: the normal irritants of democracy & awkward chai with Rahul Gandhi

Changed reality for Modi govt in its 3rd innings is by no means rise of a new phenomenon. It's a return to old normal where even majorities had to routinely wrestle with storied million mutinies.