When you meet the Queen of Indian Cuisine, Actress, Author, Silver Bear winner, and a @beardfoundation Hall of Fame inductee, the one and only @madhurjaffrey at the @ROMtoronto and she recognizes you from your tweets, you are honoured. A moment of a lifetime! #AshMemories

It appears that these inventive students took "soc" from the middle of the word "association" and added "-er," producing "soccer".

In the US and Canada, it's known as soccer. But why? And does that word annoy other football-loving nations? bbc.com/news/articles/clyexj…

🚨 📲 Apple's latest supply chain challenge in India - water contamination allegations against Tata Electronics iPhone parts plant. 📲 An Indian pollution regulator, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board - India, has alleged wastewater from Tata Electronics' iPhone components factory in Hosur contaminated groundwater in open wells on nearby farmlands -- and warned the plant could be shut down. 📲 Farmland owners had complained for months. Five state inspections followed between December 2025 and May 2026. The regulator found wastewater had entered a rainwater harvesting pond inside the facility, which then overflowed into adjacent agricultural land. @MunsifV @kenli729 READ HERE: reuters.com/business/environ…

At least 25 goitered gazelles were killed during US airstrikes on Iran's Kharg Island in March, Iran's Department of Environment confirmed. The agency says the real impact of the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran's wildlife is just beginning to be understood

Since then, Mr. Gor has put on display the changed role of an ambassador in the second Trump era, a role defined almost exclusively through personal ties to the president.

Trump's ambassador to India has pleased Indian officials by emphasizing commerce and staying silent about Modi's "rollback of democracy and human rights." trib.al/9w9b7Gg

Good luck to Scotland ahead of their Group C World Cup opener against Haiti. Sending musical greetings to the Tartan Army.

“[Canada is] a country that is not afraid to reinvent itself.” “Our future is our shared project, a project that calls on us to balance the many perspectives that shape our collective identity.” “Extreme polarization is dangerous—but so is extreme consensus.”

Yes, I was lucky enough to be in the Senate for the swearing in of Louise Arbour as Governor General. She gave a remarkable speech, both intellectually and ethically. open.substack.com/pub/johnra…

Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Washington Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person. wapo.st/3SpfAcl

“There should be compensation from the Israeli state for survivors through reparations and legal aid for those seeking justice elsewhere, but most fundamentally, the Israeli state must acknowledge that these crimes occurred and will not recur.” theguardian.com/commentisfre…

At last, and the sun is out: Santiago's magnificent Plaza del Obradoiro and the cathedral (construction began 1075 CE) that - according to legend - houses the remains of St James the Apostle. One of the Great Squares of Europe, the culmination of pilgrimages for a thousand years

Orlov is the leader of Memorial, the unique, revered, Nobel-prize winning historical and human rights society, the group that did more to tell the true history of the Soviet Union than any other

One of Russia’s most prominent human rights campaigners Oleg Orlov led from court, handcuffed, sent to prison for “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian army.

A damning chart: The US cuts off food aid to majority Muslim countries.

I have fought the neocons and warmongers in Washington for more than 25 years. Throughout, they have tried to silence, discredit, slander, and cancel me. Only recently, however, have they tried to deport me. At least, that appears to have been the aim of a hit piece in Bari Weiss’s The Free Press, which claimed that Marco Rubio’s State Department was “investigating” me for allegedly seeking to “undermine the U.S.”—presumably because of my opposition to war with Iran. Yet just hours later, the State Department issued a statement to reporters clarifying that “the State Department has no plans to revoke the green card of Mr. Parsi at this time.” Nor did it provide any confirmation for the central premise of the Free Press story—that an investigation of me existed in the first place. So here’s what I think happened. Read the full piece on my Substack: tritaparsi.substack.com/p/so…

France and Canada. President Macron and PM Carney have announced a new general security of information agreement. This may not sound like much but it is incredibly important. open.substack.com/pub/johnra…

India's 1 crore gig/platform workers betrayed by the Modi government which abstained from the ILO adoption of a new global treaty for decent working conditions in the gig economy, which aims at protecting the rights of millions of these workers. reuters.com/business/world-a…

RT @SushantSin: What Indians expected from the US, in descending order: - Apology for killing Indians - Regret over the deaths of Indians -…

Sugar is truly the only American art form