International & World News – 16 August 2025

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✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. President Smt. Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked world leaders for their warm greetings on India’s Independence Day.

2. French President Emmanuel Macron has congratulated PM Modi & the people of India on the country’s 79th Independence Day.

3. The 79th Independence Day of India was celebrated by the High Commission of India in Bangladesh. A large number of Indian community members took part in the celebration at the Chancery building in Dhaka.

4. India aims to set global data quality benchmarks with new indices and reforms, says CEA V Anantha Nageswaran at the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) event.

5. China and India are actively engaged in multi-level dialogue amid rising expectations around a potential visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to New Delhi on 18 August 2025.

6. US President Donald Trump on August 15, 2025, once again claimed credit for brokering the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, asserting that the two countries were on the brink of nuclear conflict and that his intervention “solved that.” Speaking to the media.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. US President Donald Trump said he and Vladimir Putin didn’t reach a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine after meeting on Friday — despite Putin saying they had come to “an understanding” — as the two leaders offered scant details on what was discussed while heaping praise on each other in Anchorage, Alaska.

2. Despite months of negotiations, UN member states have not reached consensus on a binding global agreement to curb plastic pollution. Disputes over production limits, funding responsibilities, and waste management obligations left talks deadlocked. Environmental groups warn that without urgent action, plastic waste could double by 2040, worsening threats to oceans, ecosystems, and human health.

3. European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has urged Israel to drop plans to advance settlement construction in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, warning the move would violate international law.

4. Pakistan’s Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir was trolled after he awarded himself Pakistan’s second-highest wartime gallantry medal- Hilal-i-Jurat.

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