Asia Pacific

Toyota Motor, Honda Motor and different high Japanese automakers stated on Monday that inside investigations discovered that they had mishandled automobile testing on dozens of fashions over the previous decade. Toyota stated it had failed to assemble correct information when doing pedestrian and occupant security exams for 3 fashions, together with its common Yaris Cross […] More

International courts are nonetheless investigating the Myanmar navy’s slaughter of the nation’s Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017 that the United States has referred to as a genocide. Hundreds of hundreds of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh and those that stayed confronted persecution from the junta. Now a brand new menace to the group is looming, this […] More

Before the water tanker rolled into certainly one of New Delhi’s largest slums, Arvind Kumar was pacing between the gate of a public faculty and a tea vendor’s stall a whole lot of yards from his residence, the place he lives with 9 members of his household. “There, it’s coming,” Mr. Kumar shouted to a […] More

In a area sliding towards authoritarianism one nation after one other, the small Himalayan nation of Nepal was a shining exception. Political debates remained largely free, and the highly effective might simply be questioned. That openness, in a poor nation rising from centuries of monarchical suppression and a long time of insurgency, confirmed that democratic […] More

South Africans reject the A.N.C. The African National Congress has misplaced its political monopoly on South Africa. Election outcomes on Saturday confirmed that the party had fallen in need of profitable an absolute majority for the primary time for the reason that finish of apartheid in 1994. The A.N.C. obtained about 40 % of the […] More

Palau, a clump of about 350 small islands within the Pacific Ocean, has change into more and more necessary to the United States as China tries to construct clout within the Indo-Pacific. This yr, Washington finalized a long-delayed plan to offer Palau a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in help over twenty […] More

China efficiently landed a lunar lander on the far facet of the moon on Sunday morning, the nation’s area company introduced, taking the mission one step nearer to bringing again the primary pattern from the a part of the moon that earthlings by no means see. The Chang’e-6 unmanned probe touched down on the moon’s […] More

North Korea launched 720 balloons internationally’s most closely armed border in a single day Saturday, hitting South Korea with their payloads: plastic baggage stuffed with cigarette butts and different trash. Since final Tuesday, North Korea has despatched roughly 1,000 of those trash balloons throughout the Demilitarized Zone separating the 2 Koreas. Once​ the balloons reached […] More

The competing strains on U.S. world energy got here into sharp focus at a safety convention on Sunday, the place China accused the United States of stoking tensions round Taiwan and the South China Sea, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was in search of larger help for his embattled nation. These scenes performed out […] More

Voting in India’s normal election, a six-week-long referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade in energy, got here to a detailed on Saturday as a lot of the nation’s populous north was gripped by a lethal warmth wave. Results will probably be tallied and introduced on Tuesday. Mr. Modi, his energy deeply entrenched, is seen […] More

Through the center of a high-stakes election being held throughout a mind-melting warmth wave, a blizzard of complicated deepfakes blows throughout India. The selection appears infinite: A.I.-powered mimicry, ventriloquy and misleading enhancing results. Some of it’s crude, some jokey, some so clearly pretend that it might by no means be anticipated to be seen as […] More

Last yr, Jaume Pellicer led a group of fellow scientists right into a forest on Grande Terre, an island east of Australia. They have been looking for a fern referred to as Tmesipteris oblanceolata. Standing just some inches tall, it was not straightforward to search out on the forest flooring. “It doesn’t catch the attention,” […] More