Asian regional superpowers India and China share a long history of mistrust and conflict along their lengthy border, and tensions flared this week in their first deadly clash in more than four decades. The world's two most populous nations and nuclear-armed neighbours have never even agreed on the length of their "Line of Actual Control"…
The stakes have never been higher in the deadliest clash in decades between troops from two nuclear powers.Soldiers from the Indian Border Security Force on Wednesday guarding a highway leading toward Leh, near the border with China.Credit...Tauseef Mustafa/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJune 17, 2020Updated 7:55 a.m. ETThe killing of 20 Indian soldiers at the hands…
Image copyright AFP Image caption India and China have accused each other of encroaching on their territory in the Himalayan region A military stand-off between India and China on their disputed border in the Himalayas has escalated into deadly clashes.In 400 words, here is all the important background to help you understand what is going…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…