New Delhi / Bloomberg Barely a year after ordering sugar mills to compulsorily export from a mountain of stockpiles, India is struggling to cope with spiraling prices and a potential shortage. After the strongest El Nino in two decades shriveled crops, India’s production is set to decline for a second year to the smallest in seven years. That’s alarmed …

  BAGHDAD / AP Even as Iraq slowly claws back territory from the IS group, faith in the government is crumbling among many, particularly the country’s Shiites, angered by political disarray and the continual pounding of the capital, Baghdad, by militants’ bombings. Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi triumphantly announced the beginning of operations to retake the IS-held city Fallujah, promising over …

  BAGHDAD / AFP Iraqi officials say clashes between government forces and the IS group outside the city of Fallujah have briefly subsided. The Iraqi troops are engaged in the second day of a large-scale military operation to drive the militants out from their stronghold west of Baghdad. In nearby Garma, Mayor Ahmed Al Halbosi says engineering teams are clearing …