When my colleagues and I began investigating labor abuses among sugar cane cutters in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, we were startled by how open it all was. Debt bondage, child labor and coerced hysterectomies happened in plain sight. We traveled from village to village in the arid, impoverished region of Beed. Every worker […]

Share Iran is warning Arab nations not to assist Israel’s retaliatory attack Iran has been urging Arab nations not to allow Israel to use their airspace as part of any retaliatory strike, two Gulf diplomats have told NBC News. The diplomats asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue. Iran says […]

Tesla’s new Robovan was CEO Elon Musk’s novel surprise at the company’s “We, Robot” event. But something about it wasn’t as novel — its name. WeRide, a Chinese autonomous driving startup, unveiled its own self-driving cargo van in 2021. WeRide named its product the Robovan, and the company’s CEO, Tony Han, touted it as being […]

An Indian textile baron has revealed that he was duped out of 70 million rupees ($833,000) by online scammers impersonating federal investigators and even the Supreme Court chief justice. The fraudsters posing as officers from India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) called SP Oswal, chairman and managing director of the textile manufacturer Vardhman, on August […]

EXCLUSIVE: London-based sales firm Canoe Film is launching sales on Ukrainine war film, Bucha Unbroken, which will have its world premiere at the upcoming Warsaw Film Festival. The film is based on the true story of Konstantin Gudauskas, a Lithuanian Jew and resident of Ukraine who used his Kazakh passport to travel to Russian occupied […]

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Olivia Tapper, 29, who currently lives in Austin, Texas. It has been edited for length and clarity. Apart from vacations, I first stayed in the US in 2019. I was researching a master’s thesis as part of my degree in my native Sweden and lived in […]

Vice President Kamala Harris is making unexpected gains among Republican voters, according to recent polls. As the 2024 presidential race intensifies, multiple polls suggest a growing number of Republicans are shifting their support from former President Donald Trump to Harris. This surprising trend could reshape the election dynamics, giving Harris a potential edge in key […]

Nobuyo Oyama, the voice actress whose alto timbre and radiant laughter shaped how millions in Japan experienced Doraemon, the blue cartoon robot in the quintessential children’s anime of the same name, died at a hospital in Tokyo on Sept. 29. She was 90. Her death was confirmed by phone on Friday by Yozo Morita, the […]

Shortly after giving birth to their first baby Beau four months ago, Robyn Flanagan and her rugby star husband Joey Carbery moved to France to start a new life. It was a big step for the new parents to move so far away from family when Beau was still so new, but it was a […]

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It may be weeks away from Halloween yet, but in Fortunestown in Tallaght there are already bonfires dotted in fields all over the housing estate. On Saturday October 5, as she was walking past a fire back from a visit to the ice-cream van, little Ruby Grainger suffered a traumatic injury that has changed to […]

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