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Watch | Sharif-Trump in animated exchange as Tharoor calls India sending Kirti Vardhan to Gaza Summit 'missed opportunity'
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor questioned New Delhi’s decision to send only Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh to the high-profile summit, asking on X whether it reflected “strategic restraint or a missed opportunity.”
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MoS Kirti Vardhan Singh meets Trump at Sharm El-Sheikh as Gaza ceasefire deal signed
Kirti Vardhan Singh met Trump at Sharm el-Sheikh as a historic Gaza ceasefire was signed and the last 20 Hamas hostages were freed.
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ILO warns of 'critical' cash crunch as unpaid US dues threaten nearly 300 jobs: Report
The U.S., the largest single contributor responsible for 22% of the ILO’s regular financing, has yet to pay more than 173 million francs. Other countries, including Germany and China, are also late on payments.
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Pakistan faces blowback as Taliban and TLP defy Islamabad: Crisis-hit ISI set for major shake-up
The ISI, long the architect and backer of militant networks in the region, including the Deobandi stronghold Afghan Taliban and TTP, appears to be losing its influence over both.
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How Canada is seeking to cool tensions with India and China amid Trump tariffs
Canada's foreign minister Anita Anand's trip covers New Delhi, Mumbai, Singapore, and Hangzhou, where she is meeting counterparts from India and China to reduce friction and encourage investment and trade.
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Small plane crash on Massachusetts highway kills two, road closed | Watch
A small plane went down on Route 195 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, erupting in flames and killing two, as heavy rain and strong winds from a nor’easter battered the area.
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Zelenskyy to meet Trump in Washington to discuss defense, energy amid Russia-Ukraine focus
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will meet US President Trump in Washington to discuss air defense, long-range weapons, and energy cooperation, following Trump’s Gaza mediation.
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How Rare Earths became the new battleground in US-China rivalry and where India fits in | Explained
The Centre’s new stockpile plan is a recognition that in the emerging world order, control over rare earths will mean control over technology and security.
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Trump hails Egypt’s Sisi for ‘vital role’ in Hamas talks as Gaza summit opens in Sharm El-Sheikh
US President Donald Trump praised Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for his key role in mediating with Hamas, as both leaders opened the Gaza peace summit attended by over two dozen world leaders in Sharm El-Sheikh.
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Taliban shuts door on Pakistan: Kabul denies visas to Khawaja Asif and ISI chief thrice
The repeated rejections mark a sharp deterioration in relations between Kabul and Islamabad, effectively stalling Pakistan’s latest efforts to initiate high-level talks with the Taliban regime amid escalating border tensions.
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‘Who cares?’: Trump urges Israel’s President to pardon Netanyahu over ‘cigars and champagne’
During his Knesset address, US President Donald Trump joked that Prime Minister Netanyahu should be pardoned, dismissing his corruption trials as trivial and praising him as one of Israel’s greatest wartime leaders.
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Who is Subu Vedam? Indian-origin man wrongfully jailed in US for 43 years walks free, faces immediate deportation
Indian-origin Subu Vedam, wrongfully jailed in the US for 43 years, is freed but faces immediate deportation to a country he barely knows.
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Pakistan faces its own monsters: Why Taliban is now turning its guns on Islamabad and why India is watching closely
What began as airstrikes by Pakistan on Afghan territory has spiralled into a full-blown military clash, exposing the collapse of Islamabad’s once-vaunted control over the Taliban.
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'My daughter converted': Trump jokes about Ivanka and Kushner during Knesset peace speech | Watch
Trump joked about Ivanka and Jared Kushner’s marriage during his Knesset address, sharing a lighthearted family moment amid discussions on Middle East peace.
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Trump's war-stopping spree: What's next on his agenda? He reveals in his Knesset speech
In an unexpected turn during his long speech at the Israeli Parliament, Trump went off the script and suggested the possibility of a peace agreement with Iran.
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'That was very efficient': Donald Trump after protesters dragged out of Israeli Parliament during his address | Watch
Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif, the two Israeli lawmakers who displayed a signboard reading 'genocide' to the US President during his speech at the Knesset, were ejected almost immediately from Israel's parliament.
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Trump hails 'historic dawn of a new Middle East'; praises 'not easy to deal with' Netanyahu
US President Donald Trump's historic speech in the Israeli Parliament came as the final 20 surviving Israeli hostages returned home following two years in captivity.
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Netanyahu hails 'greatest friend' Trump, Israel to nominate him for Nobel Peace Prize next year
Donald Trump's lightning visit to Israel came ahead of a summit in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh co-chaired by the American president, who has declared the war in Gaza "over".
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to miss Gaza summit in Egypt: Report
Under the Gaza ceasefire deal, around 1,950 Palestinian prisoners, including 1,700 from Gaza, have been released, coinciding with the upcoming Sharm El-Sheikh summit attended by Netanyahu and Abbas.
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All 20 surviving Israeli hostages freed by Hamas in Gaza truce as Trump to address Knesset: Who are they?
All 20 surviving Israeli hostages have been freed by Hamas under the Gaza ceasefire deal, reuniting with their families after being handed over to the Red Cross near the Gaza border.
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'Bus, man, gun, blood': Malala Yousafzai recalls how smoking weed at Oxford triggered flashbacks of Taliban attack
Malala revealed that her brain had blocked out the memory of the shooting in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, where a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head for advocating girls’ education.
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Pakistan disowns Taliban, calls it ‘non-legitimate’: How Islamabad’s policy U-turn exposes its loss of control
The reversal exposes the collapse of Islamabad’s long-standing strategy of using Afghanistan as a buffer against India and highlights its growing loss of control over the very militants it once nurtured.
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Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s Agra visit cancelled without explanation, says administration
Before his planned Agra trip, Muttaqi visited Darul Uloom Deoband in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur on Saturday, one of the largest Islamic seminaries in South Asia.
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Trump assures China 'will be fine' amid rising US-China trade tensions
Trump assures China “situation will improve” amid rising US-China trade tensions and rare earth export controls.
