[ad_1] India on Saturday announced its six-week-long general election will start on April 19, with most surveys predicting a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in the country of 1.4 billion people. Voting in…
[ad_1] Israel has unveiled its Eurovision entry — for a second time — even as calls persist for a boycott of the popular song contest if the country is allowed to compete as the war in Gaza continues. Eurovision organizers…
[ad_1] one of the deadliest wildfires in decades ripped through Chile’s coastal cities of Vina Del mar and Quilpué. It was a perfect storm of extreme climate conditions and management failures that left thousands of people vulnerable. Urban expansion, driven…
[ad_1] Baseball devotees are known to anticipate the onset of spring with a special fervor. In February 1971, John Hutchens wrote in The Times, “He is beginning to emerge from his cotton‐wool haze, the hopelessly addicted baseball fan for whom…
[ad_1] A new sign went up a few miles from the front line recently on the main billboard of an occupied town in Ukraine’s Luhansk region. “Vote for our president. Together we’re strong,” read the sign in the white, blue…
[ad_1] Why is Canada involved in Haiti? Why is it Canada’s job to fix a failed state? Those are two of the most common questions CBC News hears from Canadians about the current state of anarchy and widespread gang violence in this Caribbean island…
[ad_1] SHINGTON — As a candidate in 2020, Joseph R. Biden Jr. campaigned to end billions of dollars in annual tax breaks to oil and gas companies within his first year in office. It’s a pledge he has been unable…
[ad_1] The police officers asked the man what he meant when he said that involving an Australian government minister in a charity event could benefit “us Chinese.” Was he talking about mainland China and the Chinese Communist Party, or the…
[ad_1] Not long after we first met, the man said that if Australia was looking for Chinese spies, he was just the type of person they would be looking at — but the authorities would never “dare say I’m Chinese…
[ad_1] With China aggressively asserting its claims on the South China Sea, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. of the Philippines spent his first year on the job beefing up Manila’s alliance with its oldest ally, the United States. Now he…