✈️ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. India and Armenia held Foreign Office Consultations co-chaired by MEA Secretary (West) Sibi George and Armenia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safaryan, reviewing trade and investment, science and technology, AI, education, culture and people-to-people ties.
2. India voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution calling for an end to the US economic, commercial and financial embargo on Cuba, adopted with 130 votes in favour, 17 against and 25 abstentions. Counsellor Soumya Nair delivered India’s statement.
3. At the UN Security Council’s open debate on Women, Peace and Security, India’s Permanent Representative P. Harish said about 750 million women and girls live within 50 km of conflict zones and conflict-related sexual violence has more than doubled. He cited Indian peacekeepers Majors Mouiz Yaseen and Sonia Devendra Nevaskar.
4. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said the proposed India-US trade deal will protect farmers’ interests. He said India has signed nine trade agreements covering 38 developed nations with a combined GDP of $60 trillion.
5. British PM Andy Burnham is keen to visit India and a trip could take place soon, Acting British High Commissioner Ben Mellor said. He said new deals worth £12 billion have followed the India-UK FTA, which came into force 100 days ago, and the two nations aim to double trade to about $120 billion by 2030.
6. Rafel Jordà Siquier, Founder and CEO of European space company Open Cosmos, met PM Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman alongside a Liechtenstein delegation, and signalled the company’s interest in investing in India.
7. A 14-member Singapore Business Federation delegation met UP CM Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow and showed interest in investing in logistics, semiconductors, data centres and green energy. The CM proposed a dedicated ‘Singapore City’ near Noida International Airport at Jewar.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to “violating ships” after its navy said a tanker hit a naval mine and caught fire east of the strait; the IRGC claimed three more tankers struck mines, which has not been independently confirmed. UKMTO reported a dhow that caught fire and sank 9 nautical miles north of Khasab, Oman; its crew was rescued.
2. The death toll from a Russian drone strike on a commuter train in Dnipro, Ukraine, rose to 14, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Strikes on Chernihiv and Kremenchuk killed five more, and 56 people, including 10 children, were injured.
3. European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will step down on 7 February, nine months before her eight-year term ends on 31 October 2027; European Council President António Costa said the selection of her successor begins now.
4. Israel’s Central Elections Committee completed the vote count: PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc won 53 of the 120 Knesset seats, short of the 61 needed for a majority, Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc 48 and Arab-led parties 19. Likud is the largest party with 27 seats; official results are due next Wednesday.
5. The US economy grew at an annualised 3.4% in July–September 2026, up from 2.2% in the previous quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s advance estimate.
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