Hydropower continues to dominate large-scale investments in Nepal, and some climate activists say the funding has continued despite known disaster risks. The Upper Trishuli-1 project, which has been all but destroyed after last week’s floods, was one of Nepal’s largest foreign direct investment ventures, valued at about $647m. Its backers include the Asian Development Bank
Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. A massive trove of data about the civil rights of American students was quietly published on the U.S. Education Department’s website this week. The Civil Rights Data Collection includes information about which groups of students are being bullied, which students across the country
Veteran auteur Nanni Moretti – who has had nine movies in competition at Cannes — is back in Venice after 37 years with “It Will Happen Tonight,” a romantic drama toplining French star Louis Garrel and Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca (“La Storia,” “Supersex”). “Years ago I had coined this slightly stupid phrase that I used to
After a delayed start, Hampshire lost their four remaining first innings wickets in exactly an hour. Olly Hannon-Dalby had Andrew Neal caught at first slip to give him figures of 3-14, Suthar pinned James Fuller lbw and Ethan Bamber mopped things up, encouraging a thin edge from Ben Brown before Kyle Abbott drove low to
The brothers – former kickboxers with dual US and British citizenship – have been under criminal investigation in Romania since December 2022. They have been mainly based there since 2017, drawing a large social media audience – many of them young men – through misogynistic messages and images of a luxury lifestyle. Romanian prosecutors described
