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Global Pulse: Shinzo Abe more unpopular than Trump, Panama precedent in Pakistan, an unforgiving Putin

SHINZO ABE IS MORE UNPOPULAR THAN DONALD TRUMP Shinzo Abe could be doing worse than Donald Trump. He was already in the midst of colossal scandals. Now,...

Global Pulse: Money is the reason for Trump’s transgender military ban, refugees are now Merkel’s foes, and anxious American Muslims

FROM CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE TO FINANCIAL BURDEN: HOW TRUMP CHANGED DISCOURSE ON TRANSGENDER INCLUSION IN MILITARY Donald Trump has reversed yet another policy decision ushered...

Global Pulse: Trump finds new reason to stay in Afghanistan, North Korea’s gaming-addicted elite and a new terror outfit in Pakistan

TRUMP HAS A NEW REASON TO STAY IN AFGHANISTAN: BUSINESS   A skeptic of sending more troops to Afghanistan, Donald Trump has found a reason to keep the US engaged in the war-torn region – the country's vast mineral wealth.

Global Pulse: Kushner says ‘I did not collude’, NATO offers to broker German-Turkish deal and McCain’s returns to rescue Obamacare replacement

KUSHNER TO CONGRESS: ‘I DID NOT COLLUDE’ In closed testimony to the U.S. Senate Monday, President Trump’s son-in-law and Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner boldly denied colluding with the Russian government’s intrusion into the 2016 U.S.

Global Pulse: Trump investigates Russia investigators, Brexit talks deadlocked and Dali’s body exhumed

Trump has turned his own administration against Mueller, asking lawyers and aids to dig up dirt on the former FBI chief and his team to discredit their investigation.

Global Pulse: French military chief quits, Suu Kyi’s press freedom reputation hit and Putin’s off limits for Hollywood

FRENCH MILITARY CHIEF QUITS IN FEUD WITH MACRON France’s top military officer, General Pierre de Villiers, resigned Wednesday, in response to a public feud with...

Global Pulse: Trump-Putin’s secret meeting, a new Ukranian state and the Chinese art of positive trolling

TRUMP AND PUTIN HAD SECOND UNDISCLOSED MEETING After a widely-scrutinized meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meeting nearly two weeks ago, U.S....

Global Pulse: South Korea proposes talks with Kim Jong-Un, Obamacare replacement collapses and Brexit talks begin

SOUTH KOREA REACHES OUT TO NORTH AMID NUCLEAR STANDOFF South Korea’s new President Moon Jae-in proposed Monday that his nation resumes military talks with its...

Global Pulse: Erdogan rallies support, Macron aimed to charm Trump back to Paris & Israel reopens holy site

TURKISH LEADER RALLY’S SUPPORT ON ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF COUP Hundreds of thousands of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s supporters gathered across the country to commemorate one-year since the failure of a coup designed to remove the nation’s leader from power.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.