Asia Pacific

For a glimpse of the place synthetic intelligence is headed in election campaigns, look to India, the world’s largest democracy, because it begins heading to the polls on Friday. An A.I.-generated model of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that has been shared on WhatsApp exhibits the probabilities for hyperpersonalized outreach in a rustic with almost a […] More

China has been looking for methods to achieve entry to essential infrastructure within the United States in order that it could actually threaten these techniques within the occasion of a battle, the National Security Agency director stated on Wednesday. Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, who took the helm of the N.S.A. and the U.S. navy’s Cyber […] More

President Biden on Wednesday will name on his commerce consultant to greater than triple some tariffs on metal and aluminum merchandise from China, as a part of a collection of strikes meant to assist cushion American producers from a surge of low-cost imports. Speaking to the United Steelworkers Union in Pittsburgh, Mr. Biden will ask […] More

Myanmar’s ousted civilian chief, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has been moved by the navy junta to an unknown location from a jail within the capital, Naypyidaw, elevating questions on her security. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi and U Win Myint, the nation’s former president, had been relocated “to a protected place due to the […] More

The trustworthy gathered in an imposing modernist constructing, hundreds of males in skullcaps and girls in veils sitting shoulder to shoulder. Their chief took to his perch and delivered a stark warning. “Our deadly shortcomings as human beings have been that we deal with the earth as simply an object,” Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar stated. […] More

China’s economic system grew greater than anticipated China’s National Bureau of Statistics mentioned yesterday that the economic system grew 1.6 p.c within the first quarter over the earlier three months, regardless of a extreme actual property disaster and sluggish spending at residence. When projected out for your complete 12 months, the first-quarter information signifies that […] More

The Chinese financial system grew greater than anticipated within the first three months of the yr, new information reveals, as China constructed extra factories and exported large quantities of products to counter a extreme actual property disaster and sluggish spending at dwelling. To stimulate progress, China, the world’s second-largest financial system, turned to a well-recognized […] More

Donald Trump’s trial begins Jury choice started yesterday in New York City, the place Donald Trump faces prices that he falsified enterprise data to cowl up a intercourse scandal whereas serving as president. It is the primary legal trial of a former U.S. president, and the primary of 4 indictments that Trump faces within the […] More

Ushio Amagatsu, an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who introduced worldwide visibility to Butoh, a hauntingly minimalist Japanese type of dance theater that arose within the wake of wartime devastation, died on March 25 in Odawara, Japan. He was 74. The explanation for his loss of life, in a hospital, was coronary heart failure, stated Semimaru, […] More

Across from the complicated, which remained closed, a gentle stream of mourners continued to depart flowers on Monday, including to a big pile that had grown to stretch throughout a number of storefronts. Many guests have been teams of girls — moms and daughters holding fingers, pals wiping tears off each other, ladies seemingly gripping […] More

A Chinese firm focused by members of Congress over potential ties to the Chinese authorities makes blockbuster medication for the American market which were hailed as advances within the remedy of cancers, weight problems and debilitating diseases like cystic fibrosis. WuXi AppTec is considered one of a number of firms that lawmakers have recognized as […] More

The views are spectacular on this nook of japanese Nepal, between the world’s highest mountains and the tea estates of India’s Darjeeling district, the place uncommon orchids develop and pink pandas play on the plush hillsides. But life might be robust. Wild animals destroyed the corn and potato crops of Pasang Sherpa, a farmer born […] More