1. Have the missing Nigerian schoolgirls been trained to fight?
By Amnesty International
2. Why more roads means more traffic, not less.
By Matthew Beck and Michiel Bliemer in the Conversation
3. Let’s face it. There’s no perfect deal to be made with Iran.
By Pierre Atlas in the Indianapolis Star
4. Does more spending guarantee a better military?
By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry in the Week
5. What if we could detect some types of cancer with a simple breath test?
By Smitha Mundasad at the BBC

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