Foreign ministers from Quad countries — India, Australia, Japan and the United States– in a joint statement reaffirmed their shared commitment to strengthening a free and open Indo-Pacific where “sovereignty and territorial integrity are upheld and defended.”
The Quad nations also expressed strong opposition “to any unilateral actions aimed at...
President Donald trump on Monday slammed China as the reason for his withdrawal of the US from the Paris Climate Accord in a significant departure from his announcement in his first term in 2017 when he also blamed India.
"I'm immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Accord rip off the...
The first three hostages were released from Gaza and the first Palestinian prisoners were freed from Israeli custody as the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold following 15 months of war, with mixed emotions and more difficult steps ahead over the next six weeks.
Palestinians across Gaza began...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the UN will exert all efforts to enable Lebanon to achieve economic recovery. The UN chief said he visits Lebanon to express deep solidarity with the country and its people who have suffered from successive internal and regional crises. Guterres also stressed...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a “last minute crisis” with Hamas was holding up Israeli approval of a long-awaited agreement to pause the fighting in the Gaza Strip and release dozens of hostages. Israeli airstrikes meanwhile killed dozens of people across the war-ravaged territory.
Netanyahu’s office said...
Iran delivered 1,000 domestically-produced drones to its army on Monday
The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), designed and manufactured by the Defence Ministry, were distributed to combat units across various regions of the country, the report said.
At a handover ceremony, Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said the drones would strengthen Iran’s ability...
About 92,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders due to the Los Angeles wildfires in the western United States, and another 89,000 are under evacuation warnings, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna told reporters on Monday.
At least 25 people have died and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted...
The UK government on Tuesday told Parliament that the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks with India have been relaunched to deliver a joint ambition of taking the bilateral relationship to “even greater heights”.
During a debate on UK economic growth in the House of Commons, British Indian Labour MP Jeevun...
In a major infrastructural push, India has developed a railway technology that no other country currently has. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the hydrogen fuel-powered train engine developed by Indian Railways is the most powerful engine in the world. He further informed that only four countries globally manufacture...
The Xi Jinping-led Chinese government has expressed concern over the appointment of Uyghur fighters to high-ranking military positions such as Brigadier General and Colonel in Syria. Notably, these are the fighters associated with the separatist organization "Turkistan Islamic Party" (TIP) from China's Uyghur Muslim-majority region, Xinjiang.
"China is concerned about...
