Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration is weighing the political costs of replacing India’s religion-based marriage and inheritance laws with a uniform civil code ahead of national elections in 2024, according to people involved in the plan, a move that risks alienating a broad spectrum of voters. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has begun the process to implement uniform civil ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to have lowered his threshold for a nuclear strike, raising the risks for a miscalculation as he rolls out new weapons whose uses range from nearby tactical strikes to threatening the US homeland from afar. Kim signalled a looser policy towards his possible use of atomic weapons at a military parade in Pyongyang ...

  Bloomberg A bipartisan group of senators was expected to meet to discuss options for passing immigration legislation this year. “The idea is to get as many bipartisan bills we can find that have goals that will add up to 60,” Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said, referring to the Senate’s threshold for passing most legislation. Sens John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom ...