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Comment on this storyComment DELHI — India’s prime minister was scheduled on Saturday to inaugurate a new high-speed train between Goa in southern India and the financial capital, Mumbai, as part of a campaign to modernize the country’s rail network — one of the largest in the world. But on…

Comment on this storyComment When Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive finally begins, the fight will be led by brigades armed not only with Western weapons but also Western know-how, gleaned from months of training aimed at transforming Ukraine’s military into a modern force skilled in NATO’s most advanced warfare tactics. As other…

Comment on this storyComment You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. SINGAPORE — At a major conference billed as a “dialogue,” the…

A Russian attack on a residential area outside Dnipro, in central-eastern Ukraine, killed a toddler and left at least 20 people injured, the regional governor said. Five children are among the injured, he said, and rescuers searched overnight for survivors in the rubble where a two-story residential building once stood….

Comment on this storyComment Senior U.S. and Chinese defense officials publicly traded accusations of stoking tension in the Taiwan Strait in separate speeches at a defense forum this weekend, after Beijing rejected a private meeting — undercutting hope for an easing of the diplomatic standoff. Speaking at the annual Shangri-La…

The remote Afghan city, the group’s spiritual center, is hosting more regime officials and foreign dignitaries as Hibatullah Akhundzada consolidates power June 4, 2023 at 1:00 a.m. EDT Taliban spokesman Inamullah Samangani, center, meets last month with other Taliban officials in his new office at the Department of Culture and…

Comment on this storyComment Four children and a man are dead in Canada after they were caught by the tide while fishing in Quebec province, according to provincial police. They were part of a group of 11 people fishing for capelin, a small forage fish known to spawn at night…

Comment on this storyComment MEXICO CITY — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office vowing to investigate Mexico’s worst human rights scandals. And none was graver than the Dirty War waged by security forces from the 1960s to the 1980s, in which hundreds of suspected leftist guerrillas were tortured and…