✈️ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met senior UAE leaders in Abu Dhabi, including Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism, with whom he discussed the proposed ‘House of India’, and Jassem Mohamed Bu Ataba Al Zaabi, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance, on scaling up investment.
2. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will visit Nepal on 4–5 November at the invitation of Nepal’s Foreign Secretary Amrit Bahadur Rai, to review the full range of India–Nepal ties and call on senior Nepali leaders.
3. In Hanoi, NSA Ajit Doval held talks with Vietnam’s Deputy PM and Defence Minister General Phan Van Giang on defence cooperation, and with Public Security Minister Senior Lt Gen Luong Tam Quang on security cooperation, under the Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
4. India and the EU discussed customs cooperation and preparations for implementing the India–EU Free Trade Agreement, due to be signed in December, during Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal’s visit to Brussels. He also met diamond industry representatives in Antwerp.
5. MEA Secretary (West) Sibi George attended the Commonwealth Ministerial Meeting on Small States at CHOGM 2026 in St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, and reaffirmed India’s support for small and island developing States facing multiple crises.
6. UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood dropped a plan to triple the waiting time for settlement for overseas care workers, keeping it at five years. Indians lead the Health and Social Care visa route, which saw 1,04,555 visa extensions in the year to December 2025.
7. All six Indian tourists stranded by heavy snowfall in Nepal’s Upper Dolpa were rescued by helicopter and brought safely to Dunai, the district administration said.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Iran said the ‘ball is in America’s court’ and that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be reopened until the US ends its naval blockade and Iran’s demands are met. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said Tehran judges Washington by its actions, not by letters such as the one from US Vice-President JD Vance.
2. The FATF removed Bulgaria, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Monaco from its ‘grey list’ after they completed their action plans against money laundering and terror financing. Its plenary also approved a major report on scam compounds.
3. The UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara (MINURSO), set up in 1991, is ending after 35 years because the Security Council did not renew its mandate. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said its liquidation began on 1 November.
4. Seven OPEC+ countries — Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman — decided to keep their September 2026 oil production quotas unchanged for December.
5. Four crew members of NASA’s simulated Mars mission, CHAPEA, came out after 378 days inside a 3D-printed habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they grew crops in simulated Martian soil and worked with communication delays like those on a real Mars trip.
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