Narendra Modi’s BJP eyes landslide in India vote count By Ayeshea Perera, Aparna Alluri, Krutika Pathi, Simon Fraser, Vikas Pandey, Courtney Subramanian and Kevin Ponniah Traditionally, the BJP has found its strongest support in India’s populous Hindi speaking states in the north. (Of the 282 seats the party won in 2014, 193 came …

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A look inside Huawei, China’s tech giant Photographs by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Story by Kyle Almond, CNN The Chinese company Huawei is one of the giants of the tech industry. It’s the world’s largest provider of telecommunications equipment, a leader in next-generation 5G technology, and last year it passed Apple to become the second-biggest smartphone seller …

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  A legacy of lunacy haunts Kenya’s old railway. Will China’s $3.6B line be different? Kenya took on huge debt to buy a modern railway from Beijing that it hopes will boost its economy … despite the controversy it has attracted. By Jenni Marsh, CNN Updated 0651 GMT (1451 HKT) May 21, 2019 In 1903, British …

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  Huawei’s use of Android restricted by Google Google has barred the world’s second biggest smartphone maker, Huawei, from some updates to the Android operating system, dealing a blow to the Chinese company. New designs of Huawei smartphones are set to lose access to some Google apps. The move comes after the Trump administration added Huawei …

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  2019 Australia election: Morrison’s coalition seeking shock majority Final results are being counted in Australia where Prime Minister Scott Morrison hopes his victory in Saturday’s election will give him a majority government. His conservative coalition has defied the polls and now needs to win three more seats to seal a shock majority. “I have always …

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  Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy By Eliza Mackintosh, CNNVideo by Edward Kiernan, CNN On a recent afternoon in Helsinki, a group of students gathered to hear a lecture on a subject that is far from a staple in most community college curriculums. Standing in …

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Taiwan parliament becomes first in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage Supporters celebrate as legislation passed giving gay couples right to marry Lily Kuo in Beijing Fri 17 May 2019 09.22 BSTFirst published on Fri 17 May 2019 06.42 BST Taiwan’s parliament has become the first in Asia to recognise same-sex marriage with the passage of legislation giving gay couples the right …

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Water every 10 days: The families on the front line of India’s environmental crisis By Helen Regan and Omar Khan, CNN Updated 0740 GMT (1540 HKT) May 16, 2019 Hundreds of empty plastic jugs wait in rows on the cracked, dry, dusty earth. Hovering expectantly nearby, the residents of Vasant Kunj slum in South Delhi, one of the …

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Alabama passes bill banning abortion Alabama lawmakers have passed a bill to outlaw abortion in almost all cases, the strictest such US law. The state Senate approved the law by 25 votes to six, rejecting exemptions for cases of rape or incest. It will now go to Republican Governor Kay Ivey. She has not said whether …

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  Chinese media calls for ‘people’s war’ as US trade war heats up By Ben Westcott, CNN Updated 0505 GMT (1305 HKT) May 14, 2019 China will survive its trade war with the United States, state media insists, as it mounts a fierce new propaganda campaign against US “greed.” In a series of opinion pieces and on-air …

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