Nikita Yadav
BBC News, Delhi
Getty Images“Who is responsible for this mess?”
The question recently echoed across India’s financial capital Mumbai as thousands of residents once again found…
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Why lashing rains wreak havoc annually in India’s cities
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Three things to know about South Korea’s snap presidential election
South Korea is heading to the polls to elect a new leader, after their former president Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and removed from office for briefly placing the country under martial law in December.
The BBC’s Jean Mackenzie explains what you…
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Mount Etna Erupts in Sicily, Sending Hikers Scrambling for Cover
Tourists on the Italian island of Sicily were forced to flee on Monday from the slopes of Mount Etna, one of Europe’s largest and most active volcanoes, after an eruption sent clouds of gas, rock and ash billowing into the sky.
There were no…
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Gaza Cease-Fire Negotiations Hit A New Impasse Over An Old Dispute
Through nearly 20 months of war in Gaza, a changing carousel of mediators and negotiators have tried — and failed — to reach a lasting truce between Hamas and Israel. William J. Burns and Brett McGurk led the way for the Biden administration,…
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Second round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks ends swiftly with no major breakthrough
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Russian and Ukrainian delegates met in Istanbul on Monday for their second set of direct peace talks, a day after Kyiv launched a shock drone attack on Russia’s…
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Defiant Tusk to call confidence vote to reassert his authority in Poland after election setback – POLITICO
His election victory casts doubt on whether Tusk’s government can make meaningful progress on social security reform, restoring the rule of law, or on hot-button issues like allowing same-sex partnerships or loosening Poland’s strict…
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Ukraine and Russia hold peace talks but make no breakthrough
ISTANBUL (AP) — Representatives of Russia and Ukraine met Monday for their second round of direct peace talks in just over two weeks, but aside from agreeing to swap thousands of their dead and…
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Inside Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian air bases
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Ukraine’s drone attack against Russian airfields was audacious and daring. But most of all, it was meticulously planned and flawlessly executed.
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