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• What drove Saudi Arabia to lift driving ban? It's not all about women.
• Gun control: where glimmers of compromise may be appearing
• Here’s a seed of hope for storm-struck Puerto Rico
• ISIS attacks Shiites, but Afghans resist push to make conflict religious

What drove Saudi Arabia to lift driving ban? It's not all about women. Posted: 05 Oct 2017 02:12 PM PDT A royal decree last week marked a watershed moment in Saudi Arabia. No longer would the kingdom be the only country on the planet to prevent women from driving. It remains unclear, these observers say, if the measure was driven by a true desire for social reform, economic necessity, or a desperate need for good PR in the West.

Gun control: where glimmers of compromise may be appearing Posted: 05 Oct 2017 01:28 PM PDT The Las Vegas Strip massacre became the deadliest such attack since the Thibodeaux Massacre in Louisiana and several other mass killings of black Americans in the late 19th  and early 20th  centuries.

Here’s a seed of hope for storm-struck Puerto Rico Posted: 05 Oct 2017 12:39 PM PDT When a giant tornado with 250 miles-per-hour gusts wiped out Greensburg a decade ago, the small prairie town in Kansas looked a lot like Puerto Rico today, more two weeks after hurricane Maria. As many now predict for Puerto Rico, about a third of the residents then moved away. To those who left, the idea of using a catastrophic storm to reinvent the community could not even be imagined.

ISIS attacks Shiites, but Afghans resist push to make conflict religious Posted: 05 Oct 2017 10:53 AM PDT The Islamic State suicide bomber disguised himself as a shepherd as he approached his target: A Shiite mosque in north central Kabul. Recommended: Sunni and Shiite Islam: Do you know the difference? Throughout Afghanistan's 16-year war, the primary fight has been between the Taliban insurgency and the government and US and NATO forces, as well as Taliban expansion across one-third of Afghan territory. The fight has been political, not sectarian, with even the Taliban seeing a sectarian conflict as counterproductive to its ultimate aims.

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