🔍Explained: Why Peru’s new President has been forced out
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After 5 Presidents in 5 years, Peru without a leader: what led to this crisis?
During his two-and-a-half years in power, Vizcarra had amassed wide popularity, especially among the Peruvian youth, as an anti-corruption crusader.
🔍Explained: Who is Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the Barelvi cleric whose supporters are protesting France caricatures in Islamabad?
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Explained: Who is Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the Barelvi cleric whose supporters are protesting France caricatures in Pak?
The 54-year-old wheelchair bound preacher is a former Pakistan government employee and hails from Attock district in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
🔍Was it Michelangelo? Why a piece of 16th century street art in Florence is triggering fresh excitement
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Was it Michelangelo? Why a piece of 16th century street art in Florence is triggering fresh excitement
Art historian Adriano Marinazzo has proposed that the Palazzo Vecchio graffiti carving was possibly created in 1504, when Michelangelo was in Florence for the installation of his famed marble sculpture of David.
🔍Explained: The China factor and India’s strategic thinking on RCEP
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Explained: India’s strategic thinking on RCEP, and the China factor
RCEP has now been signed without India. The Indian Express has learnt that negotiators from Japan worked hard to keep the RCEP agreement “open for accession by India” and also said that India may participate in RCEP meetings as an “observer”.
🔍India out of RCEP, trade angle…
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Explained: What are the economic implications of India opting out of RCEP?
The regional trade agreement has been signed by 15 countries, without India. A look at the factors leading to India opting out, how China’s aggression firmed the decision, and the economic implications of the move.
🔍Explained Ideas: Why US President-elect Joe Biden is unlikely to weigh in on Kashmir
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Explained Ideas: Why US President-elect Joe Biden is unlikely to weigh in on Kashmir
Pakistan's greatest success in recent months has been in targeting liberal American opinion that has become critical of the constitutional changes in Kashmir, writes C Raja Mohan.
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🚨 *The Big Story*
Starting today, The Indian Express will be publishing a series of stories based on the confessions of key accused in the Rs 3,000-crore Augusta Westland VVIP chopper deal case. Part-1 of the series focuses on the interrogation statements of Rajiv Saxena, chartered accountant and key accused. And former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s son Bakul Nath, his nephew Ratul Puri, Congress leaders Salman Khurshid and Ahmed Patel find mention in Saxena's statements.
https://www.inexp.in/7sfrrS
📰 *From the Front Page*
American biotech company Moderna says its vaccine candidate is 94% effective, making it a promising option for India, according to health experts. What makes it feasible is that the vaccine's long term storage is at minus 20°C, the same temperature at which India stores its polio vaccines. However, the biggest hindrance is the vaccine cost: $37 (more than Rs 2,750).
https://www.inexp.in/VbJZZj
Retaining power in Bihar is an achievement the BJP has been talking up since the results came in, but deep down, the party is aware of the challenges thrown up by the close verdict. The RJD-led alliance secured an almost similar vote share is a red flag, indicating how it managed “wider support group” than envisaged by the NDA.
https://www.inexp.in/XIlObG
“Why can’t you go to the high court?” A bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde made the remark while hearing a plea challenging the arrest of Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan, who was held on his way to Hathras in October. The court observed that it is trying to discourage petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution—which grants individuals the right to approach the top court.
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The Indian Express has learnt that an internal assessment of India’s bilateral free trade agreements with nine countries, including five signatories of the RCEP has played a pivotal role in the government firming its position against joining the mega trade pact. The assessment showed a “moderate utilisation rate” of Free Trade Agreements over a five-year period, and a trade deficit for India in most cases, save in regard to SAARC nations.
https://www.inexp.in/hyFP96
Ahead of the 2021 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, the state unit of BJP is working towards obtaining the support of M K Alagiri, the elder son of late M Karunanidhi, and brother of DMK president M K Stalin. At this point, an alliance with Alagiri, who will likely meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah on November 21,
may give shape to a broader political front in the state.
https://www.inexp.in/Y+SDH7
Even as the Centre has announced production-linked incentives worth some Rs 2 lakh crore for a host of sectors to boost manufacturing investments, the sugar industry is complaining of huge non-payments against schemes notified more than a year ago. “From where can we pay? The Centre owes us roughly Rs 2,400 crore of export incentive and another Rs 280 crore as buffer stock subsidy.”
https://www.inexp.in/smjhIW
In his much-anticipated book, ‘A Promised Land’, which hits the bookstores on Tuesday, former US president Barack Obama has recalled his conversation with Manmohan Singh during his visit to India in December 2010 and said Singh had resisted calls to retaliate against Pakistan after the 26/11 attacks, “but his restraint had cost him politically”. "He feared that rising anti-Muslim sentiment had strengthened the influence of BJP."
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🎯 *ICYMI*
👉 A day after Kapil Sibal criticised the state of affairs in the Congress, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said there was “no need” for Sibal to mention “internal issues” in the media.
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Starting today, The Indian Express will be publishing a series of stories based on the confessions of key accused in the Rs 3,000-crore Augusta Westland VVIP chopper deal case. Part-1 of the series focuses on the interrogation statements of Rajiv Saxena, chartered accountant and key accused. And former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s son Bakul Nath, his nephew Ratul Puri, Congress leaders Salman Khurshid and Ahmed Patel find mention in Saxena's statements.
https://www.inexp.in/7sfrrS
📰 *From the Front Page*
American biotech company Moderna says its vaccine candidate is 94% effective, making it a promising option for India, according to health experts. What makes it feasible is that the vaccine's long term storage is at minus 20°C, the same temperature at which India stores its polio vaccines. However, the biggest hindrance is the vaccine cost: $37 (more than Rs 2,750).
https://www.inexp.in/VbJZZj
Retaining power in Bihar is an achievement the BJP has been talking up since the results came in, but deep down, the party is aware of the challenges thrown up by the close verdict. The RJD-led alliance secured an almost similar vote share is a red flag, indicating how it managed “wider support group” than envisaged by the NDA.
https://www.inexp.in/XIlObG
“Why can’t you go to the high court?” A bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde made the remark while hearing a plea challenging the arrest of Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan, who was held on his way to Hathras in October. The court observed that it is trying to discourage petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution—which grants individuals the right to approach the top court.
https://www.inexp.in/MxpLOC
👩💻 *Only in The Express*
The Indian Express has learnt that an internal assessment of India’s bilateral free trade agreements with nine countries, including five signatories of the RCEP has played a pivotal role in the government firming its position against joining the mega trade pact. The assessment showed a “moderate utilisation rate” of Free Trade Agreements over a five-year period, and a trade deficit for India in most cases, save in regard to SAARC nations.
https://www.inexp.in/hyFP96
Ahead of the 2021 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, the state unit of BJP is working towards obtaining the support of M K Alagiri, the elder son of late M Karunanidhi, and brother of DMK president M K Stalin. At this point, an alliance with Alagiri, who will likely meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah on November 21,
may give shape to a broader political front in the state.
https://www.inexp.in/Y+SDH7
Even as the Centre has announced production-linked incentives worth some Rs 2 lakh crore for a host of sectors to boost manufacturing investments, the sugar industry is complaining of huge non-payments against schemes notified more than a year ago. “From where can we pay? The Centre owes us roughly Rs 2,400 crore of export incentive and another Rs 280 crore as buffer stock subsidy.”
https://www.inexp.in/smjhIW
In his much-anticipated book, ‘A Promised Land’, which hits the bookstores on Tuesday, former US president Barack Obama has recalled his conversation with Manmohan Singh during his visit to India in December 2010 and said Singh had resisted calls to retaliate against Pakistan after the 26/11 attacks, “but his restraint had cost him politically”. "He feared that rising anti-Muslim sentiment had strengthened the influence of BJP."
https://www.inexp.in/xIkLAH
🎯 *ICYMI*
👉 A day after Kapil Sibal criticised the state of affairs in the Congress, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said there was “no need” for Sibal to mention “internal issues” in the media.
https://www.inexp.in/9oGub-
The Indian Express
Daily briefing: Modi to attend BRICS summit, share platform with Xi again; Alagiri likely to form a political outfit
From Barack Obama talking about Manmohan Singh in his memoir to Moderna saying its vaccine candidate is 94% effective, here are the top news today.
👉 BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh Monday said his party has started preparations on a war footing to contest all 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab assembly elections.
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👉 Amid rising Covid cases in the capital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain Monday said there is “no chance” of another lockdown as the third wave has already peaked.
https://www.inexp.in/DBegnJ
👉 The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued a public notice on Monday for online news platforms to comply with certain conditions within a month.
https://www.inexp.in/FLodXx
👉 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in the 12th BRICS summit to be hosted by Russia on Tuesday, where he will once again share a platform with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
https://www.inexp.in/0elw51
⌛ *And Finally...*
Walker, a radio-collared tiger in India which grabbed global attention in March by traversing a circuitous forest route from Yavatmal in Maharashtra through Telangana before re-entering the state to finally settle down in Buldana, is now at the centre of a conservation challenge to find whether establishing corridors from one “island-like forest” to another is the solution to accommodate the country’s growing tiger population.
https://www.inexp.in/6j7Qzb
🤐 Delhi confidential: The worsening pandemic situation seems to be making it difficult for Parliament to meet for winter session. Many MPs are learnt to have pointed that during monsoon session, many had got affected by coronavirus despite all precautionary measures taken, and the session had to be curtailed in the end.
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🎧 In today’s podcast episode, The Indian Express’s Udit Misra talks about the Indian economy’s first ‘technical recession’ since Independence and the challenges of pulling the economy out of it.
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Until tomorrow,
Leela Prasad G and Shreyasi Jha
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👉 Amid rising Covid cases in the capital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain Monday said there is “no chance” of another lockdown as the third wave has already peaked.
https://www.inexp.in/DBegnJ
👉 The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued a public notice on Monday for online news platforms to comply with certain conditions within a month.
https://www.inexp.in/FLodXx
👉 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in the 12th BRICS summit to be hosted by Russia on Tuesday, where he will once again share a platform with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
https://www.inexp.in/0elw51
⌛ *And Finally...*
Walker, a radio-collared tiger in India which grabbed global attention in March by traversing a circuitous forest route from Yavatmal in Maharashtra through Telangana before re-entering the state to finally settle down in Buldana, is now at the centre of a conservation challenge to find whether establishing corridors from one “island-like forest” to another is the solution to accommodate the country’s growing tiger population.
https://www.inexp.in/6j7Qzb
🤐 Delhi confidential: The worsening pandemic situation seems to be making it difficult for Parliament to meet for winter session. Many MPs are learnt to have pointed that during monsoon session, many had got affected by coronavirus despite all precautionary measures taken, and the session had to be curtailed in the end.
https://www.inexp.in/CPwmWH
🎧 In today’s podcast episode, The Indian Express’s Udit Misra talks about the Indian economy’s first ‘technical recession’ since Independence and the challenges of pulling the economy out of it.
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Until tomorrow,
Leela Prasad G and Shreyasi Jha
The Indian Express
BJP makes it official: will contest all 117 seats in 2022 Punjab polls
Chugh's statement comes nearly two months after the Akali Dal, one of the oldest allies of the BJP, had quit the NDA over the the three farm laws enacted by Centre.
🔍New research: Arthritis drug may offer hope for older Covid-19 patients
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New research: Arthritis drug may offer hope for older Covid-19 patients
Using artificial intelligence, Imperial team initially identified it as a drug that could have antiviral and anti-inflammatory effects.
🔍Explained: What is mRNA vaccine?
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Explained: What is mRNA vaccine?
The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines use the same technology, based on messenger RNA, or mRNA.
🔍India coronavirus numbers explained, Nov 17: Delhi’s cases drop as a result of low testing
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India Covid-19 numbers explained, Nov 17: Delhi cases drop as a result of low testing
India coronavirus numbers explained: Even with reduced numbers, Delhi remains the highest contributor of Covid-19 cases in the country. The only exception had been on Sunday, when Kerala had reported higher number of cases.
🔍Explained: How Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis is impacting the Horn of Africa
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Explained: How Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis is impacting the Horn of Africa
If the conflict were to spill outside Ethiopia’s borders, it may potentially destabilise the Horn of Africa region. The US and China have several strategic military bases in that region, the closest being Djibouti.
🔍Explained: What does the FBI’s new report on hate crimes say?
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Explained: What does the FBI’s new report on hate crimes say?
The report is compiled by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) programme, which relied on 2019 data provided by over 15,500 law enforcement agencies across the US on offences, victims, offenders and locations of hate crimes.
🔍Explained: How severe is hurricane Iota that made landfall in Central America?
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Explained: How severe is hurricane Iota that made landfall in Central America?
Aid workers are struggling to reach communities cut off by washed-out bridges, downed trees and flooded roads in some regions of Central America, which are still reeling from the effects of hurricane Eta.
🔍Barack Obama and basketball: In his life and in his book
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Barack Obama and basketball: In his life and in his book
With a sharp passing eye, long jumpers drained to perfection, and a swell passing game, Obama aced what Americans adore the most in sport: an ‘assist’.
🔍Explained: What the fresh Adani Group offer means for DHFL bidding process
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Explained: What the fresh Adani Group offer means for DHFL bidding process
The Adani Group's bid is now higher than other offers for Dewan Housing Finance Limited, which is undergoing a corporate insolvency resolution process.
🔍Moderna’s COVID vaccine: What you need to know
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Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine: What you need to know
Even if Moderna’s vaccine gets the green light from the Food and Drug Administration, it will take months to reach widespread distribution.
🔍Explained: Article 32 and Supreme Court
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Explained: What have been the Supreme Court’s recent observations on Article 32?
Article 32 affirms the right to move the Supreme Court if a fundamental right is violated. How does this provision of the Constitution define this right, and how has the SC interpreted it over the years?
🔍Explained Ideas: Why Pratap Bhanu Mehta believes the Supreme Court is failing to live up to its role
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Explained Ideas: Why PB Mehta believes the Supreme Court is failing to live up to its role
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: This phenomenon is not just a matter of individual judges or individual cases. It is now a systematic phenomenon with deep institutional roots.
🔍New research: Hepatitis C drugs shown to inhibit coronavirus enzyme
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New research: Hepatitis C drugs shown to inhibit coronavirus enzyme
Researchers looked at several well-known drug molecules for potential repurposing efforts. These included three hepatitis C protease inhibitors: telaprevir, narlaprevir and boceprevir.
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In part-2 of our exclusive series on Agusta Westland case, we focus on what chartered accountant Rajiv Saxena told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) about the entities and investments through which part of the alleged kickbacks were routed in the Rs 3,000-crore VVIP chopper deal. And how defence dealer Sushen Mohan Gupta and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri were allegedly involved.
https://www.inexp.in/3W2cCh
In the scholarship scam uncovered by The Indian Express, the first set of 11 FIRs have been filed in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad against two officials of the district welfare office whose job is to screen scholarship applications, a mastermind and his two associates, five school principals who have been accused of creating fake beneficiaries, a local advocate — and a mother of two who has gone missing.
https://www.inexp.in/hwJxC0
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: "The Indian Supreme Court was never perfect. It has had its dark periods before. But the signs are that it is slipping into judicial barbarism... This phenomenon is not just a matter of individual judges or individual cases. It is now a systematic phenomenon with deep institutional roots.
https://www.inexp.in/vDmFR3
📰 *From the Front Page*
Covid-19, climate change, and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region: These were the three issues that had come up in the first conversation between US President-elect Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi since the US election results. PM Modi said "we reiterated our firm commitment to Indo-US strategic partnership".
https://www.inexp.in/V7lVRh
The Supreme Court expressed its displeasure, for the second time in two months, after a fresh affidavit filed by the Centre was silent about the coverage of television news channels in a case related to the media’s reporting of the Tablighi Jamaat attendees in Delhi testing positive for Covid-19.
https://www.inexp.in/DgdAYL
Calling the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) the “Gupkar Gang”, Union Minister Amit Shah said it, along with the Congress, wanted to “take J&K back to the era of terror and turmoil”. And former Chief Ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, whose parties are part of the PAGD, reacted sharply to Shah’s remarks.
https://www.inexp.in/wwfRXq
To check "rising incidents of love jihad", according to Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra, the state government is planning to bring out a Bill that would supersede the Freedom of Religion Act and increase jail time for violators to five years of rigorous imprisonment. And the offences listed in the Bill would be non-bailable.
https://www.inexp.in/Rhhbuo
👩💻 *Must Read*
Even though the BJP emerged as the bigger partner in the NDA in Bihar assembly elections, portfolio allocation in the new Nitish Kumar government does not show much change, with the JD(U) keeping all important departments it had in Nitish’s previous term. Division of departments between the two partners also shows that the BJP is also not trying to put pressure on Nitish. At least, for a while.
https://www.inexp.in/sdnWnV
The Congress, which a year ago had asked the government to not sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement and claimed credit when the Centre decided to put on hold its decision to join the RCEP, stood divided on Tuesday, with leaders speaking in different voices, and reflecting the confusion within on key issues.
https://www.inexp.in/9r-kzc
China on Tuesday signed off on the BRICS counter-terrorism strategy that called upon on all countries to take steps to prevent the use of their territories for terrorist activities against other countries or their own citizens.
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In part-2 of our exclusive series on Agusta Westland case, we focus on what chartered accountant Rajiv Saxena told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) about the entities and investments through which part of the alleged kickbacks were routed in the Rs 3,000-crore VVIP chopper deal. And how defence dealer Sushen Mohan Gupta and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri were allegedly involved.
https://www.inexp.in/3W2cCh
In the scholarship scam uncovered by The Indian Express, the first set of 11 FIRs have been filed in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad against two officials of the district welfare office whose job is to screen scholarship applications, a mastermind and his two associates, five school principals who have been accused of creating fake beneficiaries, a local advocate — and a mother of two who has gone missing.
https://www.inexp.in/hwJxC0
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: "The Indian Supreme Court was never perfect. It has had its dark periods before. But the signs are that it is slipping into judicial barbarism... This phenomenon is not just a matter of individual judges or individual cases. It is now a systematic phenomenon with deep institutional roots.
https://www.inexp.in/vDmFR3
📰 *From the Front Page*
Covid-19, climate change, and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region: These were the three issues that had come up in the first conversation between US President-elect Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi since the US election results. PM Modi said "we reiterated our firm commitment to Indo-US strategic partnership".
https://www.inexp.in/V7lVRh
The Supreme Court expressed its displeasure, for the second time in two months, after a fresh affidavit filed by the Centre was silent about the coverage of television news channels in a case related to the media’s reporting of the Tablighi Jamaat attendees in Delhi testing positive for Covid-19.
https://www.inexp.in/DgdAYL
Calling the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) the “Gupkar Gang”, Union Minister Amit Shah said it, along with the Congress, wanted to “take J&K back to the era of terror and turmoil”. And former Chief Ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, whose parties are part of the PAGD, reacted sharply to Shah’s remarks.
https://www.inexp.in/wwfRXq
To check "rising incidents of love jihad", according to Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra, the state government is planning to bring out a Bill that would supersede the Freedom of Religion Act and increase jail time for violators to five years of rigorous imprisonment. And the offences listed in the Bill would be non-bailable.
https://www.inexp.in/Rhhbuo
👩💻 *Must Read*
Even though the BJP emerged as the bigger partner in the NDA in Bihar assembly elections, portfolio allocation in the new Nitish Kumar government does not show much change, with the JD(U) keeping all important departments it had in Nitish’s previous term. Division of departments between the two partners also shows that the BJP is also not trying to put pressure on Nitish. At least, for a while.
https://www.inexp.in/sdnWnV
The Congress, which a year ago had asked the government to not sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement and claimed credit when the Centre decided to put on hold its decision to join the RCEP, stood divided on Tuesday, with leaders speaking in different voices, and reflecting the confusion within on key issues.
https://www.inexp.in/9r-kzc
China on Tuesday signed off on the BRICS counter-terrorism strategy that called upon on all countries to take steps to prevent the use of their territories for terrorist activities against other countries or their own citizens.
The Indian Express
Daily briefing: Amit Shah calls Gupkar alliance a gang; Congress a little confused on RCEP
From the Express investigation on AgustaWestland deal, Jharkhand Scholarship scam to Amit Shah saying Gupkar alliance and Congress will bring terror back, here are the top news today.