India, Voting Rights, Kentucky Derby: Your Weekend Briefing Here’s what you need to know about the week’s top stories. (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the Image 1. Global coronavirus cases are surging, driven by India and South America. Vaccines in India are running short, hospitals are swamped and cremation grounds are burning thousands of bodies every day. Health experts and political analysts say that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s overconfidence and domineering leadership style bear a huge share of the responsibility for the crisis. Meanwhile, Indians living abroad are frantically seeking to help sick relatives.