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GLOBAL PULSE: Frosty talks in Paris, Trudeau wants an apology from the Pope & Trump’s killer graphics

Macron and Putin have frank talks in Paris, UK's two prime ministerial candidates face off and an insight into how Trump works.

GLOBAL PULSE: Merkel’s warning to Europeans, North Korea’s latest missile test and tragedy in Sri Lanka

Angela Merkel tells Europeans they have to take their fate into their own hands while North Korea tests another missile.

GLOBAL PULSE: Manchester police leads turn attention to Libya, Trump got played by Saudi Arabia and a moustache hashtag mess in Mexico

THE MANCHESTER ATTACK BRINGS FOCUS ON LIBYA After the Manchester bomb attack, security analysts are beginning to talk about how Libya's collapse after the fall of Gaddafi has allowed radicalisation to become entrenched.

GLOBAL PULSE: China’s addiction to debt, Trump and Obama in Europe, and Taiwan is first in Asia to allow gay marriages

CHINA HAS AN ADDICTION PROBLEM China has been on a spending spree, but the debt-fuelled binge can now sap the world’s second largest economy.

GLOBAL PULSE: Trump will not lecture Middle East, CIA lost many men in China, and a new women’s magazine in Afghanistan

TRUMP SHIFT IN SAUDI ARABIA During his visit to Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump put more burden on Muslim leaders to confront extremism.

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.

On Camera

Coalition govt shouldn’t shy away from privatisation—just fix the communication strategy

If the reason why PSU privatisation is politically challenging is that the people are swayed by emotional arguments, then it is incumbent on the government to work on its communication

‘Welfarism not a substitute for job creation’ — TeamLease vice-chairman on India’s fiscal planning

TeamLease’s Manish Sabharwal spoke to ThePrint about how political leaders, for the sake of winning elections, make big welfare-related promises without a proper plan to fund them.

Chinese rocket Tianlong-3 crashes after accidental launch during test run

The rocket is comparable to Space X’s Falcon 9 and has been independently developed by Space Pioneer, which has emerged as China’s leading commercial player in the space industry.

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.