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Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has continued cross-border attacks that Pakistani military chief General Asim Munir attributes to insurgents operating from Afghanistan, according to WION. Munir has publicly characterized Pakistan's counterinsurgency operations as peacekeeping efforts, a framing WION disputes, reporting that Pakistani military operations have resulted in...

Police responded to a shooting at a Minneapolis high-rise apartment building Wednesday that left at least two people dead and multiple others injured. Officers exchanged gunfire with the shooter during the response, and three police officers were wounded in the confrontation, two by gunshots, according...

Inger Andersen, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, stated in an interview with France 24 that decades of what she terms "carbon procrastination" have made exceeding the 1.5°C climate warming threshold inevitable. The focus has shifted from whether the world...

Losii Dikho, deputy chief minister of Manipur, said in an interview with ThePrint that Naga members of the state legislature could withdraw their support from the BJP government led by Chief Minister Khemchand Singh if violence against Nagas continues amid escalating ethnic tensions between Kuki...

Bristy Mukherjee, niece of Trinamool Congress chief and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, was found hanging at her home in Birbhum on Tuesday. Police are treating the death as a case of suicide.

Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reports that President Donald Trump has vowed to hit Iran 'hard' after Tehran fired ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in Jordan. According to Fox News, the exchange followed renewed U.S. strikes in the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran...

Nepal experienced severe flooding with velocities reaching 170–180 kilometers per hour, triggering hazards including ice and snow avalanches and glacial lake outbursts, according to Dr. Basanta Raj Adhikari, Director of the Center for Disaster Studies at Tribhuvan University's Institute of Engineering. The analysis argues that...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat made remarks on Muslims in India during a U.S. tour, with analysis focusing on implications for Hindu-Muslim relations and Indian politics. ThePrint's political editor DK Singh contextualizes Bhagwat's statements alongside a MOTN survey on Prime Minister Modi's popularity and speculation about...

BBC World Service's Evidence podcast examines scientific findings of microplastics discovered in human brain tissue, gut, and blood. Host Claudia Hammond puts listener questions to environmental toxicologist Dr. Stephanie Wright from Imperial College London, materials scientist and science writer Professor Mark Miodownik from University College...

Duma Mgqoki, a student at the College of Magic in Cape Town profiled by 60 Minutes correspondent Jon Wertheim in 2022, died last month. Mgqoki had spoken to Wertheim about witnessing community violence and how the school provided an escape and path away from that...