Asia Pacific

A senior Biden administration official warned on Friday that “absent a change” in nuclear technique by China and Russia, the United States could also be compelled to increase its nuclear arsenal, after a long time of slicing again by now largely deserted arms management agreements. The feedback on Friday from Pranay Vaddi, a senior director […] More

The merchandising machine at Hiroshi Nishitani’s Tokyo ramen restaurant has been dependable for a decade. Customers feed it cash, and it prints out their orders whereas he makes contemporary noodles within the kitchen. The meals is served inside minutes as soon as the shopper delivers the order to the pair of cooks on the counter. […] More

Between sips of milk tea at a restaurant within the Pakistani metropolis of Karachi on Friday morning, Jaffer Ahmed dissected the nationwide cricket workforce’s shock loss to the United States. “This is unbelievable and embarrassing,” Ahmed, 26, stated as he took bites of bread and lamented the defeat with associates. “How can we, with our […] More

On two current events, a international vacationer walked into Shoji Matsumoto’s barbershop, by a entrance door that grates loudly when opened greater than midway, wanting a haircut. One was Italian, the opposite British. Mr. Matsumoto, who’s 75 and speaks neither of their languages, didn’t know what to inform them. He picked up his scissors and […] More

For the primary time, employees at Samsung Group, the conglomerate that dominates the South Korean economic system, had been set to strike on Friday. The motion comes as Samsung fights to regain its edge within the enterprise of creating reminiscence chips, a crucial part within the superior synthetic intelligence techniques which are reshaping longstanding rivalries […] More

Modi’s selections Narendra Modi has simply received re-election as India’s prime minister, although by a far narrower margin than anticipated. With his third consecutive time period, the charismatic strongman has sealed his place because the nation’s most vital chief in generations. Despite having led India for a decade, Modi has in some methods stored his […] More

Two weeks after a landslide leveled a distant group in Papua New Guinea’s Enga Province, search and rescue operations are about to finish, amid indications that the catastrophe was much less devastating than beforehand thought. So far, 9 our bodies have been recovered, however crews have struggled to work by way of particles that coated […] More

Just final yr, Rahul Gandhi and the once-powerful party he led, the Indian National Congress, gave the impression to be on the ropes and little menace to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s consolidation of political energy. Congress had not been a aggressive think about nationwide elections in years, profitable fewer and fewer votes every time Mr. […] More

War has pushed Sudan towards the abyss My colleague Declan Walsh and the photographer Ivor Prickett spent three weeks in Sudan, the place few overseas reporters have had entry prior to now 12 months. Since the battle erupted there in April 2023, thousands and thousands of individuals have been displaced and a looming famine threatens […] More

When every thing turned about Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, his party and its century-old Hindu-nationalist community have been propelled to unimagined heights. On the again of his singular charisma and political ability, a onetime-fringe spiritual ideology was pulled to the middle of Indian life. Landslide election victories remade India’s politics, as soon as […] More

After his first two nationwide election victories, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India simply set his personal phrases, along with his Bharatiya Janata Party profitable clear majorities. The consequence was totally different on this vote. It was nonetheless a victory, however one which left him depending on a number of coalition companions — significantly on […] More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party will doubtless need assistance from junior companions to type a authorities below the foundations of India’s parliamentary system, early election outcomes indicated on Tuesday. In a 2019 election that handed Mr. Modi a second consecutive time period, his Bharatiya Janata Party gained 303 of the 543 seats in Parliament. […] More