Hongkong

Several close allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been put under house arrest, as police warned people not to join a second round of anti-Kremlin protests to demand his release from prison. Mr Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation has announced demonstrations in at least 100 towns and cities across Russia…

‘Tractors Versus Tanks!’ newspaper headlines proclaimed after this year’s Republic Day. Thankfully, the two didn’t come into direct conflict, but the juxtaposition was striking, with the Indian Army’s tanks rolling in the official parade, and the tractors of the farmers protesting the new farm laws rumbling and battering their way…

NEW DELHI: Congress is exploring a boycott of the President’s inaugural address to Parliament over the continuing farm protests and is likely to broach the subject with like-minded parties ahead of the Budget session. Well-placed sources said leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad will hold consultations with…

RAMPUR: A day after a young farmer from UP’s Rampur died during the protests in Delhi, his family said that they saw a gunshot wound — a hole in his jaw and one just above his ear , close to the skull — though police said the autopsy report found…

Whether out of superstition, scorn or steadfast denial, Russian President Vladimir Putin famously avoids saying Alexei Navalny’s name out loud. But across the vast country Putin rules, the leading opposition figure is known to practically everyone. Five months ago, Navalny lay comatose in a Berlin hospital, having narrowly escaped death…

Sunita Malik sat in the driver’s seat of her tractor, parked behind a police barricade at the edge of India’s capital. She and her husband had come 60 miles from their farm in northern India to the gates of New Delhi, where hundreds of thousands of farmers have camped out…

United Nations: In the wake of violence and clashes between farmers and police in India, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it is important to respect peaceful protests, freedom of assembly and non-violence. Tuesday's tractor parade in New Delhi, which was to highlight the demands of the…

MOSCOW: A top ally of Alexei Navalny vowed Tuesday to keep up the fight to free the jailed Russian opposition leader and his battle to influence this year's parliamentary election despite a government crackdown on nationwide protests and its attempts to create a climate of fear. Also on Tuesday, the…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesting farmers drove long lines of tractors into India’s capital on Tuesday, breaking through police barricades, defying tear gas and storming the historic Red Fort as the nation celebrated Republic Day. They waved farm union and religious flags from the ramparts of…

In the mid-1940s, Edmund S. Morgan, a mild-mannered young historian, was teaching at Brown and making a name in the quiet field of early American studies. Having published a slim, well-received collection of essays on the New England Puritans, he might have seemed the very model of the unassuming scholar…