An Indian perspective on the Poland climate meeting: Not much help for the world’s poor and vulnerable
Climate change is a serious threat now for poor people in developing countries, but the COP24 conference in Poland offered them little hope of near-term emissions cuts or economic aid.
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News Wrap: U.S. economy posts highest back-to-back gains since 2014
In our news wrap Friday, the U.S. economy has posted its highest back-to-back quarterly growth since 2014. Between July and September, growth ran at an annual rate of 3.5 percent, following a second quarter when it exceeded 4 percent. The…
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News Wrap: Unemployment hits nearly 50-year low in September; Indonesia mourns
In our news wrap Friday, job gains in the U.S. slowed in September, is employers added a net of 134,000 jobs -- the smallest number in a year, and likely affected by Hurricane Florence. But unemployment hit its lowest level…
India chief justice’s new decision strikes down adultery law
Chief Justice Dipak Misra and the rest of the five-member court struck down a 158-year-old law that treated adultery in certain cases as a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in prison.
The government decision came after it failed to get approval from Parliament a year after the court ruled that the practice of allowing men to divorce by simply uttering the Arabic word for divorce — "talaq" — three times violated…
Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state, officials said Sunday.
Rescuers used helicopters and boats on Friday to evacuate thousands of people stranded on their rooftops following unprecedented flooding in the southern Indian state of Kerala that killed more than 320 people.
V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing made him one of the world's most admired writers, died at his London home, his family said. He was 85.
On this edition for Sunday, July 15, looking at expectations for the Trump-Putin meeting on Monday in Helsinki. Also, how adult foster care in Oregon is offering support to the elderly. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.
