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India faces a potentially sharper heat-related mortality risk as a strengthening El Niño moves toward very strong intensity, with a new Climate Impact Lab assessment estimating about 15,800 additional heat-related deaths in the country between September 2026 and February 2027 compared with a normal…

LONDON — Britain will establish a National Centre for Information Defence to detect, attribute and disrupt hostile state information attacks, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Sept. 22, tasking the country’s security chiefs with beginning work on the new body.

Burnham announced the centre…

WASHINGTON — Democrats hold a double-digit advantage over Republicans in the national congressional vote preference less than two months before the U.S. midterm elections, with independent voters breaking strongly toward Democratic candidates, according to a poll released Wednesday.

The NPR/PBS…

GREENVILLE — Actress Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of fentanyl and several other drugs, and her death has been ruled accidental, the Greenville County Coroner’s Office said Tuesday.

Panettiere, 36, was found unresponsive on Aug. 16 at an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina…

A new blood-based test for pancreatic cancer has produced some of the strongest recent evidence that the disease may eventually be detected before symptoms emerge, but researchers say the result is still a step toward clinical validation rather than a population screening breakthrough.

The test…

SAN FRANCISCO — Paramount Skydance’s settlement with 12 U.S. states over its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has removed a major legal obstacle to the roughly $110 billion deal, but a federal judge has not yet approved the agreement, leaving the merger’s closing subject to further…

At the main gate of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, a student protest that began after the death of a second-year undergraduate has turned into a broader argument about what universities owe students when academic pressure, disciplinary systems and mental health concerns collide.

For…

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan said on Monday it carried out airstrikes against militant targets in Afghanistan’s eastern provinces of Kunar and Paktika, killing 28 militants, while Afghan authorities and the United Nations reported civilian casualties, marking a fresh escalation between the neighbours after…

France and Canada are moving to turn a longstanding political relationship into a broader strategic partnership, with President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Mark Carney using a first-ever visit by a Canadian prime minister to the French territory of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon to deepen…

AUSTIN — A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Austin was being held at a federal detention center on Monday with a bullet lodged in his back, according to his attorney and the man himself, as federal and local authorities investigated the shooting.

Wilber…