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11 July 2019

How big data got so powerful

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by Olivia Goldhill  Source Link When Judge Robert Bork was nominated for the Supreme Court in 1987, a reporter for the weekly Washin...

India should use diplomatic tools at its disposal to help de-escalate US-Iran tensions

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by Vikram S Mehta Source Link “The most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do.” This Nietzschean aph...

The promise of impact investing in India

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Shamika Ravi Source Link Achieving the ambitious sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030 will take an estimated $5 to $7 trilli...

Moving India to a new growth trajectory: Need for a comprehensive big push

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Rakesh Mohan Source Link The paper discusses the need to focus attention on the primacy of growth as a policy objective. As the achi...

Stressing War’s Toll, Taliban and Afghan Representatives Agree to Peace Road Map

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By  Mujib Mashal Source Link DOHA, Qatar — Taliban and Afghan representatives, including some government officials, agreed on Tuesda...

There Will Be No Peace for Afghanistan

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By Ashley Jackson Source Link Taliban fighters and local residents celebrate the ceasefire on the second day of Eid in the ou...

All-Afghan conference brings country closer to peace

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By KATHY GANNO Source Link Residents carry bodies of those who were killed in an airstrike during a protest in Baghlan province, nor...

China’s Overrated Technocrats

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BY JAMES PALMER Source Link Many Western parliaments are dominated by people with law degrees, but China’s leaders are mostly train...

US-China Competition and Cooperation: The Long View

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By Mercy A. Kuo Source Link Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners...

Muslim Leaders Are Betraying the Uighurs

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BY AZEEM IBRAHIM Source Link Empty streets. Sprawling encampments in the desert nearby, spoken of in hushed whispers. That’s what a ...

The Longer The US Sino-Tariff Wars Go On, The Harder It Will Be To Undo The Damage

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by Dan Steinbock Source Link Compared to pre-2008 crisis levels, world economic growth has plummeted by half and is at risk of a l...

Cyber Warfare Threat Rises As Iran And China Agree 'United Front' Against U.S

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Zak Doffman  Source Link "The Islamic Republic of Iran and China are standing in a united front," claimed Iran’s ICT Minis...

Huawei Employees Linked To China's Military And Intelligence, Reports Claim

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Zak Doffman  Source Link Throughout the conflict between Washington and Huawei, a central theme has been the alleged connections bet...

Iran makes new nuclear threats that would reverse steps in pact

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Babak Dehghanpisheh , Tuqa Khalid Source Link GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran threatened on Monday to restart deactivated centrifuges ...

The Pentagon Looks to Virtual Reality to Prepare Troops for Nuclear War

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BY JACK CORRIGAN Source Link The Defense Threat Reduction Agency wants info about VR training systems that could simulate “radiologi...

Our students are not learning. But are our teachers teaching?

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Shamika Ravi and Neelanjana Gupta  Source Link Untrained teachers, irrespective of schools being adequately staffed, directly affe...

Tehran Journeys Down a Provocative Nuclear Path

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Source Link U.S. sanctions pressure on Iran, coupled with the European Union's inability to guarantee economic concessions to keep...

The U.S. Unleashes Its Cyberweapons

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The United States has made a strategic shift toward a more aggressive stance of conducting offensive cyberattacks to achieve strategic and...

New Camera Could Help Drones See Through Camouflage

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BY PATRICK TUCKER Source Link There’s a reason why camouflage doesn’t work once you get close enough to touch it. The texture of, sa...

3 ways IoT devices compromise security

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By: Kelsey Reichmann  Source Link The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a new report June 27 detailing the cyb...

10 things you need to know before the opening bell

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YUSUF KHAN Source Link Here is what you need to know. 1. Stocks are dropping as traders fear a shift in the Fed's rate cut...

Cyber security will always be an issue, “until we get rid of passwords” — Frank Abagnale Jr

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Source Link How can organisations beat malware and ransomware; and get a stronger foothold in the cyber security landscape? Frank Abag...

We must deter Russian cyberattacks to prevent a digital Cold War

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Dave Weinstein, Opinion contributorPublished 3:15 a.m. ET July 6, 2019 Source Link National security adviser John Bolton recently de...

Cyber Warfare Now – Tales from the Digital Battlefield

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by John Sjoholm Source Link Democracies worldwide are facing critical challenges from ever expanding cyberwarfare operations with ...

IRAN CLAIMS TO PIONEER NEW ELECTRONIC WARFARE UNIT

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BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN Source Link Iran says it has broken the “monopoly” of world powers on electronic warfare and advanced communica...
10 July 2019

As India extends preschool education to all, incorporate gender sensitivity from the start

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Samyukta Subramanian Source Link The Annual Status of Education Report 2018 national findings suggest that 7 percent more girls comp...

Is India Losing Its Grip on Bhutan?

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By Kashish Kumar Source Link It was not much of a surprise when India’s newly appointed External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar ...

Taliban-Pakistan Nexus An Obstacle To Afghan Peace – Analysis

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By Neelapu Shanti* Source Link The increasing spate of attacks in Afghanistan by the Taliban once again highlights the grim securi...

Weaponized AI in Southeast Asia: In Sight Yet out of Mind

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By Michael Picard Source Link The idea that killer robots will soon be a reality in Southeast Asia may seem far-fetched to some....

What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

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Source Link at 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from...

Keeping the Cold War with China from Turning Hot

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by Lyle J. Goldstein Source Link As a hot summer of Iran debate heats up the nation’s capital, one may be at least slightly reassu...

Could the United States and China be Rivalry Partners?

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by Graham Allison   Source Link The strategic rationale for the relationship between the United States and China has collapsed. ...

Ep. 47: Mosul, revisited (part two) with Mike Giglio and Dan Gabriel

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Source Link This week we’ll hear from Mike Giglio , national security correspondent for The Atlantic. He was embedded with Iraqi spe...

Tense U.S.-Iran Relations Have Put the Middle East on the Brink

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Source Link In May 2018, when U.S. President Donald Trump followed through on a campaign promise to withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 mu...

Is this the Beginning of the End for Turkey's Erdogan?

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By Sinan Ciddi Source Link In Turkey, the opposition's Ekrem Imamoglu soundly defeated his ruling party opponent by more than ...