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    Congrats Malaysia

    News, Postbag, Published on 12/05/2018

    » Re: "An election of hope", (Editorial, May 11).

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    Expect Trump to hit Syria again, with same result

    News, Eli Lake, Published on 10/04/2018

    » If the past is a prelude, we should expect a US strike sometime soon against Syrian airfields.

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    The pros and cons of Trump's random foreign policy

    News, Noah Feldman, Published on 20/03/2018

    » Suppose President Donald Trump's foreign policy is random. I mean really random: Like random luck, designed only in so far as to fluctuate wildly between different, opposing strategic views.

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    Death penalty ineffective

    News, Editorial, Published on 21/03/2018

    » US President Donald Trump is exploring options including the use of capital punishment to battle a new and deadly epidemic of drug abuse. So many Americans have died while abusing the world's most powerful opioids that the outbreak has reduced average US life expectancy by two years. The trafficking of drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl and the like has resisted standard "war on drugs" enforcement, and the US government is floundering and grasping at promised solutions.

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    China proved right over Facebook ban

    News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 24/03/2018

    » In retrospect, China did the right thing by saying "no thank you" to Facebook. When gregarious internet evangelists come bearing gifts, it is probably best not to take their wares or let them in the door. Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile -- and trample on national sovereignty, too, if profits and power are at stake.

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    Self-driving cars are safer than you behind the wheel

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/03/2018

    » There are always some casualties when a new form of transportation comes along. In 1830, at the official opening of the world's first railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, a well-known British politician, William Huskisson, was struck and killed by a locomotive. He was known to be clumsy and accident-prone, but it still cast a pall over the proceedings.

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    US cannot win a trade war by itself

    News, Michael Schuman, Published on 22/03/2018

    » As US President Donald Trump prepares a wide-ranging package of tariffs and investment restrictions targeted at China, a trade war between the world's two most important economies looks unavoidable. On the face of it, the US might seem to have the leverage it needs to win. Since it runs a huge trade deficit with China, the Chinese have a lot more to lose.

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    Cambridge Analytica's business simply isn't data

    News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 23/03/2018

    » As the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolds, the Western world is meeting a little-known part of its political industry, the one that has operated in developing nations since at least the 1990s. CA's methods as revealed by Britain's Channel 4 News, whose reporter posed as a potential Sri Lankan client, may be a bit extreme -- but for the most part, the consultancy has been one of many firms that have brought Western-style electioneering to lawless environments in which it has been blatantly abused.

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    Here's one way to help Facebook protect user data

    News, Published on 26/03/2018

    » Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for "mistakes" and "a major breach of trust" after it came to light that the data of millions of Facebook users was compromised by a formerly little known consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica. But if you're tempted to join the growing chorus of people pledging to boycott the behemoth tech giant, you should also be involved in finding a way to prevent this happening again.

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    Opening of China's finance market isn't what it seems

    News, Andrew Polk, Published on 05/04/2018

    » Although trade tensions between the US and China show no signs of abating, there are some reasons for cautious optimism. One is the Americans have finally gotten around to giving the Chinese a substantial list of demands -- and, on at least one score, China is prepared to deal.

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