KABUL/ AP The United Nations has removed the name of a former Afghan warlord from its IS group and al-Qaida sanctions list. According to a statement posted Friday by the Security Council, a UN committee removed Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s name from the sanctions list. The statement said Hekmatyar, leader of Islamist organization Hezb-i-Islami, would no longer have his assets frozen, …

  NEW DELHI / AP Nearly three years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a sweeping national election victory with promises to develop the economy and root out corruption. But with a series of key state elections beginning on Saturday, Modi’s popularity — and his surprise currency decree that sparked months of financial uproar — is now being tested. …

  “Mexico braces for a trade war with Washington,” headline in the Financial Times, Jan. 31, 2017. Let’s hope not, because a trade war triggered by President Trump would be an act of pure economic aggression, unjustified either by the United States’ economic and political interests or by Mexico’s behaviour. It would be the economic equivalent of Russia’s seizure of …