Getty Images Ahead of PM Modi’s meeting with Trump in February, India cut tariffs on some US products India has usually turned to economic reforms in times of distress, with the most famous example being 1991, when the country embraced liberalisation in the face of a deep financial crisis. Now, with US President Donald Trump’s
Hundreds were killed in a series of airstrikes in Gaza over the past few days. The barrage of attacks accompanied ground operations in the restive strip under siege since the October 2023 attack that plunged the Middle East into crisis. Half a dozen Hamas leaders were wiped out as Israel targeted key infrastructures, continuing their
Valerie Montchalin found out who her friends were when she transitioned to being a transgender woman in her village high in the Massif Central of central France. Insults and acceptance: being trans in rural France Some turned their backs on the 52-year-old builder. And she was not invited to the village get-together. Everybody knows everybody
Mar 20, 2025 09:25 AM IST The new H-1B system is said to be implemented by the Donald Trump administration to make the process more transparent and effective. The H-1B visa programme is undergoing significant changes from Thursday, March 20, with Foreign Labor Access Gateway (FLAG) deleting old applications and the US Citizenship and Immigration
CNN — The world’s happiest country has managed to keep its No. 1 ranking for eight years running. The picture in the United States isn’t so rosy. While Finland once again tops the World Happiness Report’s rankings, the United States — at No. 24 — earned its lowest ranking yet in the 2025 report. The
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made no effort to hide his plot to plunge Ukraine into darkness. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, there has been more than 1,000 attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. And over the past year, those strikes have intensified. Hundreds of drones and missiles have been launched in mass attacks
Firefighters are battling a fire at a strip mall in Dayton on Wednesday night, according to a Montgomery County dispatch supervisor. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] >>PHOTOS: Firefighters battling fire at strip mall in Dayton Dayton fire crews were called to the 3100 block of West Siebenthaler Avenue on reports
Owen Pinnell BBC Eye Investigations BBC An iridescent film could be seen on the water surface in some places the BBC visited Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with oil, including water sources and biodiverse wetlands, the BBC World Service has found. Data leaked by a former employee reveals more than 800
Getty Images Strangers are about twice as kind as people think, a study looking at happiness across the globe suggests. This year’s World Happiness Report – released on Thursday – measured trust in strangers by deliberately losing wallets, seeing how many were returned and comparing that with how many people thought would be handed in.
Most of Shaquille O’Neal’s donation to a non-profit allegedly went into a gang leader’s pocket. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) A pair of five-figure donations from NBA figures Shaquille O’Neal and Draymond Green were allegedly embezzled by a Crips gang leader, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times, which details a bevy of
A man overlooks the aftermath of the airstrikes in Gaza. Anas Baba/NPR hide caption toggle caption Anas Baba/NPR The two month ceasefire in Gaza has come to an end with Israel conducting airstrikes, killing five Hamas officials along with over 400 others, including many children. The Israeli military has also restarted ground operations in Gaza,
After dipping into correction territory late last week, the S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.08%) is currently down by 8.73% since mid-February, as of this writing. Recession fears are still surging, however, with close to 60% of U.S. investors feeling pessimistic about the market’s six-month future, according to a mid-March survey from the American Association of Individual Investors.
Mayor Brandon Johnson called Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez and Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates on the carpet Wednesday afternoon in a bid to avert a strike and force the sides to settle a months-long fight over school district finances. The rare convening of the three major players in a long-running power
Getty Images Protesters blocked a bridge in Budapest after the law passed on Tuesday Hungary has passed a law banning Pride marches held by the LGBTQ+ community, sparking outrage in and out of the country. Parliament voted for the measure just a day after the bill was submitted on Monday, in a process fast-tracked by
RCMP have issued a Canada-wide warrant for Krystian Cogswell, who is suspected of shooting three people in Fort Providence, N.W.T., this month. One of those people died. (Submitted by N.W.T. RCMP – image credit) RCMP have issued a Canada-wide warrant for Krystian Cogswell, who is suspected of shooting three people in Fort Providence, N.W.T., this
Nicole Kolster and Gustavo Ocando Alex BBC Mundo in Venezuela Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, at the White House Nicole Kolster/BBC Mundo Myrelis Casique López insists her son is innocent and not a gang member In a poor neighbourhood of the Venezuelan city of Maracay, the mother of 24-year-old Francisco José García Casique was waiting
US President Donald Trump referred to Canada as “one of the nastiest countries to deal with” during an interview on Fox News, following a series of trade disputes with the North American neighbour. US President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an ‘Unleashing American Energy’ event at the Department of Energy in Washington, U.S., June 29,
A man in tears struggled Wednesday to retrieve the body of a small boy from under the rubble of a building in Gaza City hit by a recent wave of Israeli air strikes. Gazans living through ‘hell’ Israel threatened for Hamas One by one, relatives and neighbours used a sledgehammer to try to break apart
Few details on a possible ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo had come to light on Wednesday, the day after Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame held surprise talks in Doha. Little light on DR Congo truce terms shed after surprise summit Fighting in the mineral-rich east of the
They talked about the fighting in Ukraine, of course. But the U.S. and Russian presidents also chatted about improving relations between Washington and Moscow, peace in the Middle East, global security and even hockey games. During the more than two-hour chat — the longest such call between the countries’ leaders in years — Donald Trump
