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SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir -- India's upcoming general election marks the first major ballot-box battle in Jammu and Kashmir since the territory was stripped of its limited autonomy in 2019, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party aiming to make unprecedented inroads.
TOKYO -- Aika Miyake, the film editor of "Shogun," the hit TV series airing on the Disney+ streaming platform, says she knew the production was a winner from the moment she started working on the footage. "I was so excited because I could tell right away that 'Shogun' was different from all the other samurai epics," Miyake said in an interview from Los Angeles.
In what could be an ominous sign for Rodrigo Duterte, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has quietly put out a call for “freelance translators in Tagalog and Cebuano” – languages involved in the crimes against humanity trial the former Philippine president could face.
At a press briefing on Thursday, Duterte recalled his first state visit to China in 2016, during which he discussed various issues with Xi, including the Philippines’ plan to “dig oil” in the West Philippine Sea – Manila’s term for the waters of the South China Sea within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. Duterte said his Chinese counterpart was adamantly opposed and warned him strongly against it.
The Congress Party, India’s oldest political party, and the Communist Party of India have both indicated that they include in their legislative agenda a law to recognise same-sex civil unions, if they win enough seats in the national elections held from April 19 to June 1.
DETROIT – Skyrocketing auto insurance costs helped contribute to inflation accelerating at a faster-than-expected pace in March and are adding to the ever more expensive costs for U.S. vehicle owners.
NEW YORK: Sam Bankman-Fried, facing the prospect of spending much of his adult life behind bars, on Thursday appealed his conviction and 25-year prison sentence for stealing US$8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded.
Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced to death on Thursday after a court found her guilty of embezzlement, bribery and banking regulation violations in a fraud trial which saw her accused of plundering over US$12.5 billion from a bank using hundreds of ghost companies.