Somini Sengupta

international climate reporter for the New York Times

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Somini Sengupta is the United Nations reporter and former New Delhi Bureau Chief for the New York Times. She is the author of The End of Karma: Hope and Fury among India’s Young.

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Fires are raging in Orange County today, already scorching more than 3500 acres.

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Conservative leader Boris Johnson won big in the Brexit election. Labor’s Jeremy Corbyn lost disastrously.

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