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KATHMANDU: Five Russian climbers who have been missing on Nepal's Mount Dhaulagiri since the weekend were found dead on the world’s seventh tallest mountaincoinplay, their hiking company said on Tuesday (Oct 8). There had been no contact with the cl...

Sri Lanka's new government announced a probe on Tuesday (Oct 8) into the 2019 Easter bombings that killed 279 people, saying that previous investigations had failed to identify other culprits responsible for the country's worst-ever attack against c...

Finally, mercifully, the country’s astronomical drug overdose rate appears to be flattening out — even declining. This spring, national data began to show that overdose death rates were, after more than three decades of very steady increases, no lon...

In the world of political fund-raisinggalactic wins, there is hard money, soft money, dark money — and Leonard Leo money. Political advocacy and charitable groups controlled by Leo now have far more assets than the combined total cash on hand of the...

Whereas once Donald Trump attracted only the right-wing fringe of American politics, now he leads it. Whereas once he kept some distance from agitators and provocateurs like Laura Loomer, now they’re at the center of his campaign. And whereas once h...

Every four yearswpt global, the actors and observers of U.S. politics descend upon a single group of people, the undecided voters of America. We devote thousands of pages of digital ink to profiling undecided voters, scrutinizing their beliefs, exam...

On Saturday night in Hershey, Pa., JD Vance will participate in one of the more unusual political events of this presidential campaign. Several thousand people — almost all of whom have paid for the privilege, some as much as $1,600 — will pack into...

BIRMINGHAM: Since a surprise attack in Russia’s Kursk region on Aug 6bovegas, Ukraine has taken control of as much as 1,000 sq km of Russian territory. It has destroyed a lot of equipment, taken prisoners and inflicted heavy casualties on Russian fo...

SINGAPORE: Earlier in August, thousands of Singapore students discovered that their personal learning devices were wiped clean. Some, including those sitting for the upcoming O-Levels, lost access to several years’ worth of notes.  The Ministry of E...

SINGAPORE: I do not envy the Alliance for Action on Norms for Joss Paper Burning (cleverly acronymised as AfA rather than the much more challenging AANJPB), whose mission is to “forge a consensus within the Chinese community on desired norms for the...