List of South Asia articles
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks on during a meeting at the White House in Washington on Dec. 2. Pete Hegseth’s Bad Week
The defense secretary is under scrutiny for a series of questionable decisions.
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People sit on a boat on a flooded road near a toll plaza. Can Pakistan Adapt to Climate Disaster?
Three years ago, the country became a poster child for climate justice. Now, it faces a steep learning curve to secure the funding it needs.
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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi waits Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, on Sept. 9. India’s Strategic Autonomy Is Now Reading as Aloof
Why 2025 has been Modi’s most difficult foreign-policy year.
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Modi and Putin stand side-by-side, looking ahead, with a crowd in front of them. Will Modi Cozy Up to Putin?
Next week, the Russian leader visits New Delhi for the first time since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Four men are standing in front of a display of silver laptops. India’s Fraught Push for Digital Decolonization
Will the dream of indigenous technology be co-opted for political control?
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Demonstrators gather during a march on International Women's Day in Los Angeles on March 8. The Good News on Women’s Rights
How some countries are quietly advancing progress.
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A woman wearing a headscarf, surgical gloves, and a surgical mask over her face holds up a syringe as she examines it. Slightly out of focus in the foreground is the head of a newborn baby being held by an adult. The baby wears a tiny little hat. How One Vaccine Could Help Fight Drug-Resistant Infections
A cheap and practical intervention, given at birth, could save lives in conflict zones and beyond.
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Indian students wear masks of Xi Jinping ahead of a China-India summit China and India Are Trapped in a Loop
Breaking out of their cycle of hope and distrust requires political imagination on both sides.
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Three men in the foreground have their hands tied behind their backs and white blindfolds over their eyes. In the background is a helicopter and two men wearing military-style uniforms and headphones. The Use and Abuse of ‘Narco-Terrorism’
From Afghanistan to Venezuela, the misleading term has inspired decades of misguided policies against real problems.
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Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi arrives at Afghanistan's embassy in New Delhi for a press conference on Oct. 12. The Taliban’s Entry Into India-Pakistan Rivalry
Kabul’s flirt with New Delhi is a classic case of geopolitical logic.
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Members of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) shout slogans and hold a poster of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemning the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls ahead of state elections in the country's Bihar state, during a protest in New Delhi on July 28. India Is Disenfranchising Millions of Voters
A controversial policy may be targeting religious minorities and Dalits.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi at a gathering of foreign ministers of the Indo-Pacific Quad at the U.S. Department of State in Washington on July 1. The Quad Is Dead, Long Live the Quad
In an increasingly dangerous era, the group’s old patterns of cooperation will not suffice.
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A woman with a scarf on her head sits on the ground holding a black sheep. Behind her white sheep are scattered on a grassy, rocky mountainside. The Women Carrying Water—and the World
The complicated life of women struggling with climate change—and cultural change—in Kashmir’s mountains.
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Trump and Takaichi, both smiling, hold up signed documents while standing in front of U.S. and Japanese flags. The Countries Courting Trump With Critical Minerals
From Japan to Pakistan, the deals keep coming.
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A woman is seen in mid-thigh deep water on a flooded street. Other people are behind her with buses on either side. Even Doomsday Will Divide Us
Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” interrogates how the have-nots get by in a climate catastrophe.