Our daily trip around the world

🇮🇳 The head of India’s wrestling federation was charged with sexual harassment following months of protests by Olympic wrestlers. Indian wrestling chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a top politician within the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, is being charged with assaulting, stalking, and sexually harassing at least seven young women between 2012 and 2022. The charges come after some of India’s top female wrestlers accused Singh of sexual harassment in January, then embarked on a months-long effort to have their claims investigated after initially being dismissed by authorities.

🇷🇺 Russia is in the midst of its worst labor shortage in decades. In the first quarter of 2023, Russian companies reported the biggest shortage of workers since data collection began in 1998, per a new survey by the country’s central bank. A separate analysis by consulting firm FinExpertiza found the number of Russian employees under 35 years old dropped by 1.3 million last year to reach its lowest level since the early 1990s.

🇨🇳 The Chinese government is reportedly planning major steps to boost its lagging economy. Officials in Beijing are considering a series of new stimulus measures that would include billions in new infrastructure spending and looser rules to encourage home buying, according to a new WSJ report citing multiple internal sources. These measures, in addition to interest rate cuts announced last week by China’s central bank, are a sign that Beijing’s economy has cooled considerably after seeing a temporary surge in spending following the abandonment of its strict “zero-Covid” policy in December, per the Journal.