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“Without water, there would be no wine,” Virginia de Valle says as she takes me around her family’s 16-hectare (40-acre) vineyard in Mendoza, nestled below the peaks of the Andes mountain range. Winemakers in Argentina’s wine capital rely on fresh water from the Andes mountains to irrigate their crops. But after Argentine MPs this week […]

Tousle-haired and clad in a checked shirt, Samay Raina half smiles on stage, as if a punchline is already poised at the edge of his lips. The audience laughs even before he begins speaking. Until a year ago, Raina was at the top of India’s burgeoning comedy scene, with millions of views online and sold-out […]

The British rock band Deep Purple met a long-time super fan in Tokyo on Friday – who just happened to be the Japanese prime minister. Furthermore, experts in foreign policy note the continued relevance. “You are my god,” Sanae Takaichi, a hard rock enthusiast, told the band’s drummer Ian Paice, beaming as she handed him […]

Fans of former baseball star Ichiro Suzuki were thrown a curveball when a statue of him broke as it was being unveiled outside the home of the Seattle Mariners on Friday. As a blue tarp was pulled off it, audience members could hear a snapping noise as the bronze figure it was shrouding suddenly appeared […]

Humanitarian organisations and journalists have expressed concerns after a leading satellite imagery enterprise told its users it was restricting access to images of Iran and large parts of the Middle East following a request from the US government. California-based Planet Labs initially introduced a 14-day delay on providing novel imagery from the region in March. […]

No serving leader in the European Union has led their country for as long as Viktor Orbán. But after 16 years he faces his strongest challenge yet in 12 April elections, where most opinion polls suggest he is heading for defeat at the hands of former party insider, Péter Magyar. Since 2010, Orbán has transformed […]