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Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator on Saturday sounded optimistic about sanctions being lifted. But other diplomats were more cautious about progress at the talks.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party may be slipping as the country struggles with a surge in coronavirus cases.
Residents on Taiwanâs Orchid Island are used to solitude. The island lies a jet-prop flight or wavy ferry ride away from Taiwanâs main island, and residents are mostly Tao, an Indigenous Austronesian group that was here thousands of years before the Chinese arrived. But Orchidâs azure and emerald shores draw snorkelers, and the community has seen a dramatic surge in domestic tourism during the pandemic. Suddenly, the remote island was the closest thing Taiwanese tourists could get to an overseas vacation. Today, visitors rent motor scooters to cruise along the bumpy island ...
Tehran, Iran It’s a men’s-only club in the tangle of auto repair shops on the traffic-clogged streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran. Among them, workers toil in dim garages, welding and wrenching, fabricating, and painting. That’s until Maryam Roohani pops up from under a car’s hood at a maintenance shop in northeastern Tehran, her dirt- and grease-stained uniform pulled over black jeans and long hair tucked into a baseball cap – which in her work, replaces Iran’s compulsory Islamic headscarf for women, or hijab. Buffing a blue BMW sedan in the shop until it shines, she couldn’t b...
Madrid Two young Senegalese men met on a Europe-bound migrant boat in 2006, a year that saw a record influx of Africans to Spain’s Canary Islands. Since then, one died of a heart attack running away from Spanish police and the other is running in a polarized election Tuesday for a seat in Madrid’s regional assembly. Serigne Mbaye not only wants to fight what he considers to be “structural racism” against African migrants but also to defy a history of underrepresentation of the Black community and other people of color in Spanish politics. “That’s where all discrimination begins,...