European debt now a better bet than US Treasuries
WASHINGTON — Janet Yellen can’t be happy as bond guru Bill Gross shines a bright spotlight on a fast-emerging risk to US Treasury securities: the November election.
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Li Qiang to Australia as relations move from freeze to thaw
Chinese Premier Li Qiang is visiting Australia from June 15 to 18.
AP PHOTOS: Myriad people flock to Indian city to swallow live fish with ‘miracle cure’ to asthma
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A mother encourages her daughter to fully open her mouth to swallow a live fish holding “the medicine” she believes will help cure her child’s asthma, as scores clamor about, gulping down their own fish and hoping for the best.
In India, PM Narendra Modi’s new coalition needs all-embracing approach to minorities
During a six-week election campaign, ruling party leaders made toxic references, in particular to Muslims.
China’s global military base strategy taking shape
China is securing international military base access agreements to expand the global reach of its armed forces, a counter to America’s extended deterrence strategy for Taiwan while threatening India with encirclement.
Obesity has become too big a problem for India to ignore
Puja Changoiwala is the Mumbai-based author of the novel "Homebound" and the nonfiction books "Gangster on the Run" and "The Front Page Murders."
India can be part of Quad collective defense, university report says
WASHINGTON -- India's participation in a collective security arrangement with the U.S and its allies, especially Japan and Australia, is no longer an inconceivable proposition, a former Indian naval officer says.
US lawmakers to meet Dalai Lama on India trip next week
McCaul, Pelosi and a group of other US lawmakers will visit Dharamsala – the town in the northern Indian Himalayas where the 88-year-old Tibetan monk lives in exile – on June 18 and 19, an official of the Tibetan government in-exile, known as the Central Tibetan Administration, told Reuters.