By Scott DiSavino
(Reuters) - Power use in Texas will likely break records for the month of May next week as homes and businesses crank up their air conditioners to escape a spring heat wave, the state's electric grid operator projected on Friday.
That heat will follow severe storms that pummeled the Houston area with hurricane-force winds on Thursday, killing at least four people, blowing windows out of high-rise buildings and leaving... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) - Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's Congress party, made an emotional appeal to voters in the family borough, asking them to vote for her son in a region that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party have dominated in the last ten years.
Standing on stage on Friday with her children Rahul and Priyanka, Gandhi, the party's former chief and former lawmaker from Raebareli in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, said her family had a special... (continue reading...)
TBILISI (Reuters) - Thousands of Georgians led by Orthodox Christian clerics marked "Family Purity Day" on Friday, marching down the same central avenue in Tbilisi that has been the scene of some of the fiercest anti-government protests in the country's history.
The contrasting groups staging the marches - pro-Orthodox and conservative on one side and pro-European on the other - spotlight the deep divisions within Georgian society as it grapples with... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) - The head of Canada's Security Intelligence Service warned Canadians against using video app TikTok, saying data gleaned from its users "is available to the government of China," CBC News reported on Friday.
"My answer as director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is that there is a very clear strategy on the part of the government of China to be able to acquire personal information from anyone around the world," CSIS... (continue reading...)
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian security forces have arrested more than 260 people, including three European nationals, at a "Satanist" gathering west of the capital Tehran, the semi-official new agency Tasnim reported on Friday.
The raid follows a nationwide crackdown against women accused of flouting Iran's strict Islamic dress code.
"Satanist network broken up in Tehran, arrests of three European nationals," Tasnim wrote.
It... (continue reading...)
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