World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
The Trinamool MP appeared at a Kolkata police station over a May post targeting Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, a day after police summoned him in a second case over remarks about officers.
Yellow Vests, students, unions, and child-rights groups are due to march again, as activists call a bill shielding police who use their weapons a “licence to kill”.
Tangkhul Naga groups want an NIA inquiry into the killing of four civilians on NH-202 and armed groups removed from Naga areas, and threaten an indefinite agitation if their demands are not met by November 16.
The maker of the Claude chatbot will sell 825 million shares at $70 to $78 each and plans to start trading on Thursday, with orders reportedly about six times the shares on offer.
Nearly 500 families in Omid-e Sabz, a mainly Hazara township in western Kabul, have been told to leave, sources say, as the Taliban force out residents who cannot pay rent on houses they say they own.
In Promise Me, America, due out on November 17, the former US president says Netanyahu repeatedly promised to do more to spare Gaza’s civilians, only for more attacks to follow.
The Revolutionary Guards said two tankers, one of them a supertanker, struck mines on an unauthorised route, and the regular navy said a third caught fire east of the strait.
The 66-year-old, who has drummed for the band since it formed in Birmingham in 1978, says his tinnitus has been “getting steadily worse.”
About 135 homes and a mosque were razed in Lakhimpur, including those of families the state resettled after the 1983 violence, who say neighbours from other communities were spared.
Sirens sounded at the Suffolk base, home to the largest US fighter wing in Europe, days after US aircraft left nearby RAF Mildenhall amid reports of a threat from Iran.
