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India has contributed little to climate change: Home to 18 percent of the world’s population, it has emitted just 3 percent of planet-warming greenhouse gases.But India is suffering from climate change. It is happening right now: Over the past three months, a heat wave has devastated North India and ...

MALIHABAD, India — No fruit in India is as universally loved and as eagerly anticipated as the mango, which, for one brief window each year, cools and sweetens the long days of summer.Mangoes are added to kebabs, used to sour dishes and puréed with mint to make refreshing drinks. ...

Violence has been reported in seven states and the national capital on the occasions of Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti in April. These states are Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Bihar. The police have arrested some of the accused in these cases, and in ...

BLACKBURN, England — The conversation was urgent and emotional as Gulbar Akram huddled with the police in Manchester, England, on Saturday and spoke with his brother, who was holding four people hostage at a synagogue almost 5,000 miles away in Texas.He urged his brother, Malik Faisal Akram, to release ...

The 2,000-pound bomb followed its instructions as it raced through the cold December sky above the small Afghan village of Shawali Kowt.At more than 1,000 mph, it pierced the northwestern slope of a small hill. Cody Prosser had seen a contrail coming out of the northeast and for a ...

BELEK, Turkey — Anoush Dastgir may be the hardest-working man in soccer, but by Saturday, his job had taken a toll.Dastgir, the coach of Afghanistan’s men’s national team, was sitting in an empty restaurant at the hotel where he and his team were preparing for an exhibition match against ...

Rana, who was a key aide of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, said he joined the BJP because of the party’s positive response to his efforts to set a “Jammu narrative” through “Jammu Declaration” . Former National Conference leaders from Jammu and ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Before departing for Afghanistan, an elite team of Ukrainian troops gathered in a circle outside the airport and passed around a bottle of whiskey, a ritual meant to calm the nerves.It was early in the morning of Sept. 16, and the troops, members of Ukraine’s military ...

At a wedding function in Lahore, Pakistan, shimmering fabrics, bright colors, maximalist jewelry and glittering makeup form a dazzling display of aesthetic maximalism. Old grudges are set aside or permanently forgotten in favor of love and blessings. Everyone knows newlyweds will need both, and so everyone is invited — ...

Millions of Afghans could run out of food before the arrival of winter and one million children are at risk of starvation and death if their immediate needs are not met, top United Nations officials warned on Monday, putting the country’s plight into stark relief.Secretary General António Guterres, speaking ...