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NEW DELHI — Indian voters appeared to unexpectedly reject Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, with results counting on Tuesday showing tepid support for his Hindu nationalist party and shattering the air of invincibility of India’s most powerful politician in decades.With vote counting still ongoing as of Tuesday afternoon, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party still has a chance of forming a government, but its performance is expected to be inferior to that of 2014, when he took power on a wave of public anger over corruption, and 2019, when he was driven by nationalist sentiment over the border conflict with Pakistan.Such a…

China and Hong Kong stepped up security to discourage rallies to commemorate the victims on Tuesday, marking 35 years since the military crushed pro-democracy protesters at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. On June 4, 1989, People’s Liberation Army troops opened fire on student-led protesters gathering in the square for democratic protests, killing 319 people according to the Chinese government, but other estimates put the actual death toll in the thousands. China’s one-party Communist party has justified the 1989 crackdown as a necessary measure to quell political unrest, and public discussion of the massacre remains taboo in the country. Large numbers…

A coalition of Democratic senators is urging key committees to include provisions in upcoming spending bills to ensure small marijuana businesses have equal access to federal Small Business Administration (SBA) loan programs and entrepreneurial development resources that are also available to businesses in other industries. In a letter sent to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee leadership last month and published in a press release on Monday, the senators requested that language be added to the FY2025 Financial Services and General Government Affairs (FSGG) spending bill to prevent the SBA from “denying loan applications for the 7(a) Loan Guarantee Program, Disaster Assistance…

Imran Khan’s party is hopeful that Pakistan’s Supreme Court will restore its 78 seats. ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is hopeful of recapturing at least 78 reserved parliamentary seats allotted to rival parties after the February 8 general elections, Khan’s spokesman said on Tuesday. A few weeks before the national elections, Khan’s PTI was stripped of its election symbol, the cricket bat, for technical reasons and all its candidates had to contest as independents. After the elections, in which Khan-backed independents won the most seats overall, they joined the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) to demand quotas…

Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Louisiana judge Surgical castration The bill approved Monday would impose the death penalty on anyone convicted of sex crimes against young children, making the state apparently the first to do so if Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signs the bill into law.The Republican-controlled Legislature passed a bill giving judges the option to sentence people to surgical castration if they are convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes, including rape, incest and sexual abuse of a child under the age of 13. In some states, AlabamaNew York, California, Florida and Texas have laws allowing chemical castration, and some of…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be delaying an end to the Gaza war for political reasons, in an interview with Time magazine published on Tuesday.The comments in a May 28 interview were made just days before Biden announced details of a proposed ceasefire in Gaza and at a time when the Israeli prime minister is struggling with deep political divisions in the country.Asked whether he believed Netanyahu was prolonging the war for his own political reasons, Biden replied, “There is every reason to come to that conclusion.”Biden, who has called for…

Capital One is the latest foreign bank to enter Mexico’s financial sector, but it is unlikely to compete directly with BBVA or Banco Santander, as its initial hiring suggests it is focused on developing technology products for the North American market. Mexican banking regulations mean financial institutions must wait a significant amount of time for supervisory checks to be completed. Currently, at least five foreign banks (Banco Plata, Banco Masari, Banco Ion, Confio and Nu Mexico) are waiting to obtain banking licenses. British unicorn Revolut only recently passed its final exam. Capital One aims to hire 1,500 Mexican nationals or…

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has announced the ePremier12 USA Qualification Process, which will include two unique events using WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS, released by Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. (KONAMI) in February 2023, to determine the teams that will compete in the USA eBaseball™ Finals for a chance to compete in the ePremier12. of ePremier12 USA Final – Which The top two players from a six-player round-robin tournament will advance to the ePremier12 Opening Round in the United States on Friday, October 25. The spots for the finals will be filled in two ways: through a league of…

An Associated Press cameraman was on hand to watch as Real Madrid players hurled coach Carlo Ancelotti into the air after Borussia Dortmund’s victory in the Champions League final against Real Madrid at Wembley Stadium in London.June 4, 2024, 8:24 AM• 1 min readAn Associated Press photographer was on hand to watch as Real Madrid players tossed coach Carlo Ancelotti into the air after Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid won the Champions League final, 2-0, at Wembley Stadium in London.Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark reacts after scoring against the Seattle Storm during a WNBA basketball game in Indianapolis. The WNBA…

2024 Election Results LIVE: Welcome to the live coverage of election results for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections! The emerging trends have thrown up a surprise, with the Bharatiya Janata Party, touted to improve its 2019 tally in Lok Sabha, could even struggle to reach the majority mark on its own. The biggest setback has come from Uttar Pradesh, which holds the key to power. The BJP also appears to heavily losing in Rajasthan and Haryana where it swept in the last general elections. Its significant gains in Odisha and Telangana have not only come as solace but also helped…