✈️ *INTERNATIONAL NEWS*
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1. Addressing the first plenary of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Atlanta, hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, EAM S. Jaishankar said military solutions will not work and diplomacy must be given a chance, and called for freedom of navigation and an end to attacks on seafarers under UNCLOS. A Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting with the US, Japan and Australia will be held on the sidelines; he then goes to CHOGM in Antigua and Barbuda, 1–4 November.
2. India will give 430 electric motorbikes to field officers of Sri Lanka’s fisheries sector under an MoU signed by High Commissioner Santosh Jha, with grant aid of 265 million Sri Lankan rupees under the ‘Clean Sri Lanka’ programme.
3. India’s SSB and Nepal’s Armed Police Force agreed to step up intelligence sharing, joint action against human trafficking, drug smuggling and fake currency, and to use CCTV and scanners at border points, at their 10th coordination meeting in Kathmandu, co-chaired by SSB DG Sanjay Singhal.
4. Panama-flagged tanker MT LOUISE 1, with 27 Indian seafarers on board, was hit in a projectile attack in the Strait of Hormuz; all the crew are safe, Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said. Two Indians on the Liberia-flagged VLCC MT ARZANAH, attacked a day earlier, are also safe.
5. India named Artificial Intelligence and maritime security as key priorities of its candidature for a non-permanent UN Security Council seat for 2028–29, Permanent Representative P. Harish said at a UNSC debate on emerging technologies and maritime security.
6. Indian tourists can now pay online with UPI for bookings at Burj Khalifa’s ‘At the Top’ in the UAE, the first UAE attraction to accept UPI for e-commerce, and at Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore, the Finance Ministry said.
7. A life-size statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled at Peace Park in Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota, USA, the first in the state.
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🌎 *WORLD NEWS* 🌍
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1. PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party claimed, without evidence, that Arab-led parties had “stolen” Israel’s election, after final results gave his bloc 53 of 120 seats. Israel’s probe into alleged foreign interference, now involving the Shin Bet and Mossad, is reportedly looking at Qatar and Turkey; both have denied the claims.
2. Iran’s navy claimed it destroyed an “enemy submarine” east of the Strait of Hormuz and that two tankers caught fire after hitting naval mines. Separately, UKMTO said a tanker was hit by limpet mines 25 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, Oman; its crew is safe. Brent crude rose 2.7% to about $118 a barrel.
3. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will pay a working visit to Turkey today for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul on the Russia–Ukraine war and Black Sea security.
4. Russia’s best-known independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, launched in 1993 with help from Mikhail Gorbachev, announced it will close on 9 November, blaming pressure from the authorities. Six of its journalists, including Anna Politkovskaya, were killed over the years.
5. Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant at Rooppur, built with Russia’s Rosatom, reached criticality. Electricity is expected to feed into the national grid in the last week of November.
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