The second round of voting in the world’s biggest election started on Friday, with polling being held for of seats in India’s lower house of parliament. Women vote at a polling station in Rajasthan, India, April , . REUTERS Adnan Abidi

   U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised concerns on Friday about China’s support for Russia’s military, one of the many issues threatening to sour the recent improvement in relations between the world’s biggest economies.Blinken raised the matter during five and a half hours of talks with...

   A police crackdown that aims to clear a poor suburb of petty crime and street vendors before the Paris Olympics is putting pressure on an overcrowded prison operating at almost double its capacity.Villepinte is a grey, concrete detention centre in the suburb of Seine Saint Denis. It lies . ...

   As the United States faces security threats across the globe, its close ally Japan has committed to stepping up as a trusted defence partner but Tokyo’s cyber and information security vulnerabilities remain a concern, officials and experts say.Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is...

   A Ukrainian court ordered Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky to be taken into custody on Friday to face allegations of his alleged involvement in an illegal acquisition of state owned land worth about million.Solsky denies the allegations, which relate to events in , before he started...

   Anglo American AAL.L rejected rival miner BHP Group’s BHP.AX . billion pound billion takeover proposal on Friday, saying the bid significantly undervalued the London listed miner and its future prospects. The BHP proposal is opportunistic and fails to value Anglo American’s prospects,...

   The yen rose sharply after hitting its weakest level in three decades against the U.S. dollar with markets on edge about possible intervention after the Bank of Japan kept interest rates on hold on Friday.In a volatile trading day, the yen rose suddenly to ., after hitting minutes earlier its...

   U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Reuters on Thursday that U.S. economic growth was likely stronger than suggested by weaker than expected data on first quarter output and said the Biden administration was keeping all options open to respond to threats from China’s excess industrial...

   Elon Musk’s new plan to use current product lines as the basis for new affordable vehicles rather than springing for all new models follows the playbook of Tesla’s old school Detroit rivals, as some Tesla investors and analysts see it.The shift toward incremental improvement, mirroring a common...

   The Supreme Court’s conservative justices signaled support on Thursday for U.S. presidents having some level of protection from criminal charges for certain acts taken in office as it tackled Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his election loss.During about ...