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When the powerful are not willing to open the gates for the deserving, it is time to gatecrash and make oneself heard.
 

Ever since Field Marshal Asim Munir’s White House lunch, many in India are fearing the United States is tilting towards Pakistan. That isn’t true. Even as it develops its relationship with India, Trump hopes Munir will be able to supply cheap troops to garrison the expensive ring of bases that today protect the Middle East. That would save Trump billions, but the Field Marshal knows it would open his country to the poisonous political tides of the Middle East—Praveen Swami in Security Code.

#cuttheclutter Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda on Friday signed a peace deal, marking the end of decades-long fighting in eastern DRC that upended millions of lives. In Episode 1689 of #CutTheClutter ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta traces DRC’s roots, from being a Belgian colony till 1960 to Mobutu’s rule and the 2009 pact that led to the birth of Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group; he also explains how large reserves of tantalum and cobalt have brought the ‘resource curse’ tag upon DRC and Rwanda.
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The bill criminalises speech that is factually incorrect and imposes unusually harsh penalties. Spreading fake news could get you the same prison time as that for kidnapping.
 

Both parties object to the documentation process that people will have to go through to prove their eligibility to vote, and have termed it a 'devious, dangerous' idea.
 

Member of Bikram Singh Majithia’s legal team says Akali Dal leader ‘resigned as director of firm Saraya Industries, and his role was limited to that of a shareholder’.
 

China has long criticised the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, or NATO, for drawing Indo-Pacific countries—Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand—into its orbit. From Beijing’s perspective, this marks a troubling effort to export Western military influence to Asia and to contain China’s rise. Among Chinese observers, the prospect of Japan aligning more closely with NATO has sparked particular concern. A commentary published on Baidu Baijiahao pointed to NATO’s evolution from a regional defence bloc into what is now seen as an overstretched force projecting power far beyond the North Atlantic. Japan’s increasing proximity to NATO and its willingness to speak on China’s internal affairs are cast as foreign interference with potentially destabilising consequences. On the Chinese microblogging site, Weibo, a post framed Japan’s engagement with NATO as part of an inflated narrative of China's threat.

#cuttheclutter With a war raging in the European continent, the just concluded NATO Summit at The Hague witnessed an unprecedented agreement between member states to hike defence spending to 5% of GDP. In Episode 1689 of #CutTheClutter ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta traces the origins of NATO and the backstories of its constituents, most of which are former Soviet nations.