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Once one of his country’s most powerful figures, he helped found its main opposition party. “I had to face up to the harm I did to people when I served in the army,” he said.

While a newly united opposition seemed to gain some traction, exit polls showed the popular and entrenched prime minister was winning a third term.

Social media is awash with A.I.-altered audio, clipped video and manipulated images. Fact-checkers want to save the public from deception.

She traveled from village to village in a crusade to stop a practice in which women have been accused of being witches and harshly punished, or even killed, for it.

A fern from a Pacific island carries 50 times as much DNA as humans do.

For Mehta, women’s rights were human rights, and in all her endeavors she took women’s participation in public and political realms to new heights.

Pakistan and India are sweltering. For laborers, not working because of the extreme temperatures can mean not eating.

Already braced for uncertainty about the U.S. election, countries in Europe and Asia are now even more unclear about the future of American diplomacy.

Women are increasingly reporting sexual harassment and abuse in the sport, including accusations against the renowned climber Nirmal Purja.

Speaking in Singapore, Lloyd J. Austin III sought to reassure allies and put China on notice that Ukraine and the Mideast were not distracting the U.S. from this focus.

Stock markets in Mumbai have surged as big global investors hope India can become a source of growth. It won’t be so easy.

The number of Indians abroad is small relative to the country’s population. Indian political parties want their support anyway.

President Yoon Suk Yeol has been accused of intervening in an inquiry into an accidental death during a peacetime search and rescue operation.

A man died and more than 70 other people were injured last week when a flight to Singapore from London hit sudden turbulence.

As part of China’s crackdown on even peaceful opposition, a court in Hong Kong convicted 14 people, who now face prison time along with dozens of others.

The South Korean military said that they found 260 balloons from North Korea filled with cigarette butts, plastic water bottles and used paper and shoes.

The pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, will be flown to the Smithsonian National Zoo from China before the end of the year.

For weeks now, temperatures in several states in northern India have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke.

The South Korean military said on Wednesday that it found hundreds of balloons carrying garbage from North Korea.

A surprise television hit, now on Netflix, has people talking about what Japan has lost with today’s changed sensibilities.

Surging exports and factory investment are buoying China’s output, but the housing market faces serious troubles and industrial policies may hurt other countries.

Plus, South Africa goes to the polls

Supporters of President Lai Ching-te are protesting legislative amendments introduced by the opposition that would limit his authority.

Nearly five days after the disaster hit a remote section of the country, officials have started evacuating residents. But the scale of the death toll remains uncertain.

The storm, the first of the season, hit the South Asian countries after weeks of intense heat. Millions were left without power.

People braved high winds and heavy rain to clear debris as the storm tore through the region.

The city, promised some autonomy by China, is trying to move on from a security law imposed by Beijing. Companies are learning that’s not always possible.

As politicians stoke religious hatred online, these veterans of social causes deliver their messages in person: “Talk to each other. Don’t let anyone divide you.”

Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, has made deploying a fleet of spy satellites one of his country’s latest ​military ambitions.

A bipartisan delegation promised to stand by the island’s newly elected president, Lai Ching-te, after Beijing surrounded the self-governing island with naval vessels and aircraft.