International

Chinese intelligence agencies appear to have repeatedly penetrated their U.S. counterparts in the past 20 years, and the spying has led to federal prosecutions and lengthy prison terms for American who were involved. Officials from […]

A group of female data researchers are providing the tech and data muscle behind digital tools the Kenyan government uses to track and contain Covid-19. Women in GIS Kenya (WiGISKe), a geospatial technology non-profit, partnered […]

Covid-19 isn’t the only plague hitting Nigeria. Sexual assaults are on the rise as lockdowns freeze men out of work and keep women and children trapped indoors. Nigerian police reported a total of 717 rape […]

Mahita Nagaraj’s mother and daughter are used to not seeing her for days at a stretch. When she is not assisting Covid-19 patients in quarantine, she’s delivering groceries for the elderly or rushing around to […]

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — It’s winter in the Southern hemisphere. That’s the relatively cold season in Cape Town, but it also offers some of the best times for many outdoor activities. Winter, from May […]

SoftBank has reportedly been in conversation with two Indian firms, Reliance Jio Infocomm and Bharti Airtel, in a bid to salvage TikTok’s India operations. While Reliance’s corporate communications department has denied the likelihood of any […]

MUMBAI — The clinical trials of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate for Covid-19 have been paused in India. The Serum Institute of India, which is conducting the clinical trials, announced the pause on Sept. 10. The Swedish-British […]

Palaeontologists on a dig in China have discovered a 4-foot-long species of dinosaur that could dig itself underground. A burrow containing two fossilized specimens was covered by what scientists believe was mud flowing from a […]

KOLKATA, India—Darjeeling, the picturesque hill town in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, is synonymous with tea, but connoisseurs might be losing their taste for it as tea from Nepal emerges as a formidable competitor. […]

Dalle Khorsani pepper in an undated photo (Courtesy of Pragya Sharma) Sikkim, a state in North East India, is set to get a Geographical Indication tag for the Dalle Khorsani chili, a variety of intensely […]