A 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and does not have children is not the kind of person you'd expect to get famous in China
The Independent -Algeria is among many countries in Africa to take steps to transition parts of its education system away from French and toward English
The Independent -With little time left to prevent a government shutdown, the House is in a familiar position: effectively paralyzed as conservatives feud with Speaker Kevin McCarthy
The Independent -‘This is a political dispute caused by the government,’ claims train drivers’ union
The Independent -Luke Donald has sent Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton out to face the USA’s Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns to begin Friday’s foursomes
The Independent -‘There is nothing I would’ve wanted to do less,’ supermodel says
The Independent -A man earlier pictured wearing a Maga hat has been arrested in New Mexico for shooting a protester during a demonstration against a controversial statue of a Spanish conquistador.
The Independent -The Baltimore Orioles have reached a deal with the state of Maryland that keeps the team at Camden Yards for at least 30 years
The Independent -Silicosis is causing men in their twenties and thirties to have severe disease and, in some cases, death
The Independent -A new generation of Democratic presidential prospects is taking steps to strengthen their national profiles as they fan out across the country to help President Joe Biden's reelection campaign
The Independent -Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is scheduled to undergo hip replacement surgery Friday
The Independent -The Navy is issuing written reprimands to three now-retired military officers for their roles in the spill of jet fuel into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water in 2021
The Independent -Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles says the army will never again fly its fleet of MRH-90 Taipan helicopters following a crash in July that killed four soldiers
The Independent -A Chinese paramilitary policeman is reflected on a European flag as he directs foreign journalists at a news conference in Beijing; the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games is held in Hangzhou, China; an idol of elephant-headed
The Independent -Ex-president’s claim to have organised an audience of ‘hundreds’ of union members remains unlikely
The Independent -An American soldier who sprinted into North Korea and was held there for two months before being returned to the U.S. is now set to undergo medical testing and extensive questioning about his time in the isolated country before
The Independent -Multiple studies have a established a connection between oral care and cognitive wellbeing
The Independent -The second Republican presidential debate this week attracted fewer viewers than the first debate in August, with an estimated 9.5 million tuning into Wednesday night’s event
The Independent -Gen. Mark Milley, in June, made his last trip to Normandy to honor those who fought on D-Day, and to celebrate with the young American soldiers in the French town that welcomes them every year
The Independent -Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig is planning to announce a Republican bid for U.S. Senate in Michigan next week, according to two people familiar with the matter
The Independent -David Montgomery rushed for 121 yards and three touchdowns, and the Detroit Lions asserted themselves as the team to beat in the NFC North, dominating the first half and beating the Green Bay Packers 34-20
The Independent -A group walked to the Jamtalferner Glacier in Austria . A deadly fire raced through a wedding hall in Iraq. Fencers competed at the Asian Games in China. And an idol of the elephant-headedHindu god Ganesha is taken for immersion at
The Independent -The streets of cities across Latin American were bathed in green as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day
The Independent -Citrus farmers in the southeast corner of Louisiana are scrambling to find ways to irrigate their crops with fresh water
The Independent -It might take all 162 games of the long Major League Baseball season to decide the playoff races in both the National League and American League
The Independent -Arizona’s top elections official says the No Labels party can’t block candidates from using its ballot line to run for office
The Independent -The Armenian diaspora has been stunned by the swift fall of the Armenian-majority enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani troops and the exodus of much of its population
The Independent -Slovakia holds an early parliamentary election on Saturday that pits populist former Prime Minister Robert Fico who campaigned on a clear pro-Russia and anti-American message against a liberal pro-West newcomer
The Independent -Ludvig Aberg and Sepp Straka are be in action for Europe in the morning foursomes.
The Independent -Locals are still suffering from a massive 2014 waste spill at a copper mine in the northern Mexican border state of Sonora, officials with the country's environmental agency say
The Independent -Los Angeles County and city will spend billions of dollars to provide more housing and support services for homeless people under a lawsuit settlement approved by a federal judge
The Independent -Countries in the Americas are reeling as the flow of migrants reaches historic levels, but a U.N. officials says international “funds simply aren’t there” for humanitarian needs
The Independent -Georgia’s Republican Senate Caucus is suspending a GOP state senator after an uproar over his plan to impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for indicting former President Donald Trump
The Independent -Former president and 18 other defendants have all pleaded not guilty in sprawling Fulton County Rico case
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