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This past week, the Indian government shut down internet access for 27 million people and denied the right to assemble freely in the north Indian state of Punjab. Why? Because the Indian government has decided that capturing Amritpal Singh, a 30-year-old-Sikh political activist is more important than people’s human rights. Singh (no relation to me) openly airs his grievances about India’s disenfranchisement of Sikhs, as well as injustices committed by the government against other minorities in India.

The U. S. and International Monetary Funding have for decades been the globe’s lenders of last resort, stepping in to provide emergency loans to countries in financial distress. But a new study published Tuesday shows how China has emerged as a new global heavyweight. China provided 128 rescue loans in 22 countries from 2008 to 2021, according to researchers from the U.

Three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his intentions to deploy “tactical nuclear weapons” to Belarus, the Kremlin ally said it was willing to host the arsenal to defend itself. “Over the last two and a half years, the Republic of Belarus has been subjected to unprecedented political, economic and information pressure from the United States, the United Kingdom and its NATO allies, as well as the member states of the European Union,” the Belarusian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday in a statement.

For years, the public has been warned about the risk posed by AI-generated images, also known as deepfakes. But until very recently, it has been relatively easy to discern an AI-generated image from a photograph. No longer. Over the weekend, an AI-generated image of Pope Francis wearing a Balenciaga puffer jacket went viral online, fooling many internet users. In just a matter of months, publicly-accessible AI image generation tools have grown powerful enough to generate photorealistic imagery.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. At moments like this, there is one word in Joe Biden’s vocabulary that he wishes he could purge: again. It’s been a constant during his two-plus years as President and his eight as the understudy.

Ankeny girls soccer goalie Jasmine Moser allowed just two goals in the 2022 season. But where does the senior star go from here, in the 2023 season?