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Maybe, just maybe, that was their future on the screen. How a new cricket league inspired two sisters in a Punjab village.

New U.N. research shows that climate change disproportionately erodes income in households led by women in poorer countries. But there are ways to fix it.

The country is defending paying the pop star to play nowhere else in Southeast Asia. Thailand’s prime minister said the price was up to $3 million per show.

After a national incident was declared in January, officials have been scrambling to address problematically low levels of immunization.

The new institution in Amsterdam is the first to tell the full story of the persecution of Dutch Jews during World War II.

Asia’s two giants are crowding the island nation with building projects, tossing its newborn democracy to and fro.

Legislators passed an amendment giving women the “guaranteed freedom” to end their pregnancies, which experts called a global first.

In her most forceful comments to date, the vice president called on Hamas to agree to a six-week pause currently on the table, and Israel to increase the flow of aid into Gaza “given the immense scale of suffering.”

The decision is a break from a decades-long tradition by the country’s No. 2 official and comes as Xi Jinping, the top leader, consolidates his power.

In a White House meeting on Monday afternoon with Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, the vice president also focused on the need for a deal to free hostages.