Khaleejtimes India election: Second phase of voting today as Modi vs Gandhi campaign heats up India began voting on Friday in the second phase of the world's biggest election, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his rivals raise the pitch of the campaign by focusing on hot-button issues such a... (photo: AP / Channi Anand) Elections India Photos Politics Al Jazeera Malaysia’s ex-PM Mahathir faces anticorruption probe Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is being investigated in connection with a corruption probe involving his sons, the country’s anticorruption agency has confirmed. | Azam Baki, ch... (photo: AP / Vincent Thian) Asia Corruption Malaysia Photos Top Stories Korea Times Blinken back in China seeking pressure but also stability U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by at the Kong Fuan, Director General of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic o... (photo: AP / Mark Schiefelbein, Pool) Antony Blinken China Photos US Foreign Policy Wikipedia: ChinaUnited States relations Al Jazeera Cost of doing business with Iran? US warns Pakistan of sanctions risk Islamabad, Pakistan – The United States has warned Pakistan of the risk of sanctions after it promised greater security and economic cooperation with Iran during a visi... (photo: AP / Iranian Presidency Office) Iran Pakistan Photos US States Scheerpost Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza? The flotilla waits to sail from Istanbul. Photo credit: Medea Benjamin | By Medea Benjamin / CounterPunch | The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coaliti... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra) Gaza War Humanitarian Aid Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Photos Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war Al Jazeera ‘Absolute power’: After pro-China Maldives leader’s big win, what’s next? Very few expected Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu’s party to win Sunday’s parliamentary elections, that too by a landslide. For this was a man whose triumph in the... (photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool, File) China Democracy Maldives Photos Wikipedia: Mohamed Muizzu RTE US approves $95bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan The US Congress has given final approval to a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, with President Joe Biden quickly vowing to sign the long-delayed bil... (photo: AP / Mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov via AP) Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Photos Taiwan Ukraine War Wikipedia: Russo-Ukrainian War Al Jazeera Post-1948 order ‘at risk of decimation’ amid war in Gaza, Ukraine: Amnesty The world is facing the collapse of the 1948 international order established in the wake of World War II, amid the brutal wars in Gaza and Ukraine, while authoritarian po... (photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky) Amnesty International Democracy Human Rights Photos Asiatimes India elections don’t inspire much hope in Kashmir Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is favored to win a third term in office in the country’s massive general election, ongoing in stages since April 19. While ther... (photo: AP) Elections India Kashmir Photos Financial Express How the rupee has ‘strengthened’ under Modi government Between April-end 2014 and now \u2013 roughly the time the Narendra Modi-government has been in office \u2013 the rupee has depreciated by 27.7% against the US dollar, fr... (photo: AP / Channi Anand) Business Economy India Photos Al Jazeera Why is Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi visiting Pakistan? Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is in Pakistan on a three-day trip to discuss regional and bilateral relations days after Iran and Israel carried out attacks against each... (photo: AP / Prime Minister Office via AP) Iran Mideast Peace Pakistan Photos Wikipedia: IranPakistan relations Asiatimes Racial wart on Myanmar’s revolutionary troika As Myanmar’s political opposition complex marks a three-year anniversary since the 2021 military coup, its progress has been at best mediocre and at worst an abysmal fa... (photo: AP / Photo, File) Asia Myanmar Photos Politics