Modi wins, but his party suffers
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was declared re-elected for a third term yesterday. But preliminary results showed his party won by a much smaller margin than expected. An aura of invincibility surrounds Modi Already broken.
The results suggest that Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party will still win a majority of parliamentary seats, but not enough to secure an outright majority. The party may need smaller parties in its alliance to form a government. The result is an unexpected setback for the Bharatiya Janata Party
look Real-time results here.
The Indian National Congress is the main opposition party. Better than expectedThe Congress party, which many believe is irreparably weakened after its disastrous defeats in the first two elections, and its allies have used issues such as unemployment, social justice and the prime minister's ties to India's billionaires to widen the gap with Modi.
context: Modi will become the second Indian leader to serve a third consecutive term after the first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.A historic feat in Indian history” yesterday.
economy: As the results become clearer, India's Stock market crashThe stock market was down 6% by the end of trading yesterday, nearly wiping out its gains for the year.
What Ukraine Lost
Few countries have suffered as much devastation as Ukraine since World War II, but the scale of the disaster has so far been too great to be fully grasped.
My colleague published The first photo to fully show the extent of the damage. Through detailed analysis of years of satellite data, they documented every town, every street, every bombed building. In some places, like the city of Marinka, not a single resident was left. Many people lost more than just their homes. They lost their communities and their histories.
“If I close my eyes, I can see everything from my past life,” said Iryna Hrushkovksa, 34, who was born and raised in the city, adding, “But if I open my eyes, everything disappears.”
Scale of destruction: The number of buildings destroyed in Ukraine is greater than if all the buildings in Manhattan were razed to the ground four times. Parts of Ukraine look like Dresden or London after World War II, or Gaza after being bombed for half a year.
HIMARS missile Ukraine Use American rocket systems to destroy missile launchers A Ukrainian official said there were hundreds of bombers in Russia and that the strikes were carried out after the United States gave Ukraine the go-ahead to do so.
Israel kills Iranian general in Syria
Israeli air strikes on Syria Killed an Iranian general Iranian media said he was an adviser there. This is believed to be the first Iranian killed by Israel since the two countries almost went to war after Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria in April this year.
Iran is currently embroiled in a leadership crisis sparked by the death of its president last month. A new attack on Israel is unlikely. The Iranian was identified as General Sayyid Abyar, a member of the Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force.
Gaza: In an interview with Time magazine, President Biden hints at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prolonging the war Continue to be in power.
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Chinese websites are disappearing
China's internet is disappearing en masse. Posts are being deleted and censored.
The country’s internet regulator found that by 2023, there would be just 3.9 million websites, down from 5.3 million in 2017. A recent post on WeChat reported that nearly all information shared on the Chinese internet between 1995 and 2005 — news portals, blogs, forums, social media sites — was no longer available.
While archiving websites anywhere is expensive and difficult, Internet publishers in China face intense pressure to censor as the country turns toward authoritarianism under Xi Jinping. Li Yuan writes in his column “New New World”.
Internet companies have more incentive to over-censor and make old content disappear by not archiving it.
Two weeks ago, documentary filmmaker Wang Nanluan searched her name on the film review site Douban but found nothing. “Some of the films I directed have been deleted and banned on the Chinese internet,” she said. “But this time, I feel like I’ve been erased as part of history.”
