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GLOBAL PULSE: Trump’s withdrawal from Paris deal may not be so bad, boyish Macron is now all grown-up and China’s cybersecurity law is vague

US PULLOUT OF PARIS DEAL MAY NOT BE SO BAD If the U.S. pulls out of the Paris climate deal, many fear that it will have a domino effect, but a small group of experts has begun to argue that a withdrawal may actually be for the best.

GLOBAL PULSE: Trump’s PR problem, banned groups in Pakistan are alive online and a TV ad about terrorism in the Middle East

TRUMP HAS A PR PROBLEM. Donald Trump’s communication director Michael Dubke has quit and many anticipate a broader shake-up of his staff in the coming...

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.

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.