Indian police have launched a sedition investigation against a primary school over a play that allegedly criticised a contentious citizenship law, officials said yesterday. There have been widespread street demonstrations against the law introduced by the Hindu-nationalist government that grants citizenship…

At least 10 policemen were killed when Taliban fighters attacked an outpost in northern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, as fighting raged across the country despite ongoing talks between Washington and the militant group. The multi-pronged assault took place in Khwaja Alwan district of Baghlan…

As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making “adjustments” to the tax and benefit structure of Social Security.…

SYRIA TROOPS CAPTURE KEY TOWN IN IDLIB AP, Damascus, Syria Syrian troops are in full control of a key rebel-held town in the country’s northwest after days of intense fighting and airstrikes that displaced tens of thousands of people, the Syrian army said yesterday. The capture of the town of…