Nikhil Kumar
Nikhil Kumar is The Independent's New York correspondent. He was formerly assistant editor on the foreign desk and has also done a variety of jobs on the city desk, where he wrote about markets, commodities and other business and economics topics.
![John Kerry said that to suggest that the government had 'abandoned [Mr Levinson] or anybody has abandoned him is simply incorrect... and not helpful'](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2013/12/15/20/John-Kerry-AP.jpg?quality=75&width=640&crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&auto=webp)
