Bedugul Coffee: Tuesday Morning Briefing: Texas considers airport-style security for schools

Highlights

Texas political leaders may install airport-style security at public schools and screen students for mental health issues as alternatives to gun control. Advocates have been calling for more stringent gun laws in the wake of last week’s deadly shooting at a Houston-area high school.

How do Iranians view the United States since its withdrawal from the nuclear deal? Commentary contributor and State Department veteran Peter Van Buren just returned from a week-long trip there, where he met with university students and scholars.

A Swiss robot is one of a new breed of AI weeders that could disrupt the $100 billion pesticides and seeds industry by reducing the need for universal herbicides and the genetically modified crops that tolerate them.

World

The Marie Stopes Ladies who drive from village to village in the remote north of Burkina Faso offering free contraception, advice on family planning, sexual health and sometimes abortion, may have to stop work in June. Funding from USAID for Marie Stopes International was cut when it refused to comply with a rule reinstated by Trump in January 2017.

A Myanmar judge will rule today whether to allow the submission of evidence police say they obtained from the mobile phones of two Reuters reporters arrested in December for alleged possession of secret documents. Follow more coverage on the case with our dedicated page.

The government of ousted Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak deceived parliament over the finances of state fund 1MDB and suppressed an investigation by intimidating and purging anti-corruption agents, officials said today.

Sweden will send out instructions to its citizens next week on how to cope with an outbreak of war, as the country faces an assertive Russia across the Baltic Sea. Here is what is in the 20-page pamphlet, the first public awareness campaign of its kind since the days of the Cold War.

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It also lists oat milk, tins of Bolognese sauce and salmon balls as examples of food that people should store in case of an emergency along with tortillas and sardines.

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