Coming Up This Week Results from India's six-week election are due tomorrow. Exit polls show a comfortable lead for PM Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party, despite challenges from a newly-unite …

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Hong Kong Hong Kong convicted 14 pro-democracy activists - part of the "Hong Kong 47" arrested in 2021 - on spurious charges of trying to overthrow the territory's government by organizing political …

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China China's top social media platforms - including Weibo, Xiaohongshu, and Doubin - launched a coordinated crackdown on social media "money worship," removing thousands of posts celebrating luxury …

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Israel and PalestineColombia's leftist president, Gustavo Petro, announced plans to open a Colombian embassy in the West Bank's administrative capital of Ramallah, in a gesture of support for the Pale …

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GazaSpain, Ireland, and Norway announced that they will officially recognize Palestinian statehood next Tuesday. They'll join around 140 other countries that already recognize a Palestinian state. The …

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Iran Iranian state media blamed the helicopter crash that killed Pres. Raisi on "technical failure," and that seems like a reasonable explanation for it: the Bell 212 helicopter Raisi was flying in w …

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