Commentary:The Senate’s confirmation hearing for Gina Haspel to be director of the CIA will be the last chance for the U.S. to confront its history of torturing terrorist suspects. Senator John McCain has already sent Haspel detailed written questions about the agency’s controversial techniques; Pulitzer Prize-winning CIA expert Tim Weiner has a few more.
In India,Modi’s government last month introduced the death penalty for rape of girls below 12 and increased the minimum punishment for those whose victims were under 16. But the emergency order did not mention boys, although a government survey has showed that male minors were more likely to be victims than female minors.
Comcast is asking investment banks to increase a bridge financing facility by as much as $60 billion so it can make an all-cash offer for the media assets that Twenty-First Century Fox has agreed to sell to Walt Disney.
Investors in global chipmakers are worried about a slowing smartphone market, but a clamor for more video content from consumers is underpinning buoyant sales for memory-chip makers.
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