✈️ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said lasting peace in Ukraine can come only through dialogue and diplomacy, and that “endless war must give way to the end of war”. He said India has shared ideas on safe Black Sea shipping and grain and energy exports, and that EAM Dr S. Jaishankar has spoken with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He also called for free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and rejected the USCIRF report as biased.
2. India rejected Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun’s lawsuit in the US against National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and former R&AW chief Samant Goel as “fabricated and malicious”, saying any summons must be served through the Law Ministry. Nikhil Gupta, convicted in the plot case, is due to be sentenced in New York on 20 November.
3. India and France held their third Strategic Space Dialogue and the inaugural Economic Security and Critical Technologies Dialogue in Paris, co-chaired by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and French Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs Martin Briens.
4. Sri Lanka’s Cabinet approved an MoU for an Indian grant to supply 100 ambulances for the ‘Suwa Seriya’ 1990 emergency ambulance service, which was launched in 2016 with Indian assistance and extended island-wide in 2018. Separately, India handed over four Advanced Life Support ambulances to Seychelles through High Commissioner Rohit Rathish.
5. India and the US held the second meeting of the Drug Policy Executive Working Group in New Delhi, led by NCB Director General Anurag Garg and Debbie Seguin of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The two sides reviewed cooperation to disrupt global drug-trafficking networks, building on their India Vision Roadmap for 2026–2029.
6. Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju and Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Hajj and Umrah Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah signed the Bilateral Haj Agreement for 2027 in Jeddah, under which India has secured a quota of 1,75,025 pilgrims. The two ministers reviewed preparations for Haj 2027, and Mr Rijiju also attended the 6th Haj Conference and Exhibition.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Russian, Ukrainian and US delegations held about four hours of talks in Abu Dhabi on 10 November, their first direct meeting since February. Russia’s team was led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, Ukraine’s included Rustem Umerov and Kyrylo Budanov, and the US was represented by envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who said the gaps had narrowed.
2. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted a ballistic missile and a cruise missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis over Riyadh, and another ballistic missile over southern Saudi Arabia, with explosions heard in the capital and residents told to take shelter.
3. Gulf Cooperation Council defence ministers, meeting for the 23rd Joint Defence Council in Bahrain, approved an advanced headquarters in Kuwait for the GCC Unified Military Command, along with the deployment of “appropriate” forces to it. The Unified Military Command was set up in December 2013; the GCC comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
4. Israel’s 26th Knesset was sworn in with 120 members after the 27 October election left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc short of a majority. Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot of the Yashar party, tasked by President Isaac Herzog with forming the government within 28 days, vowed to form a national emergency government, while Herzog urged lawmakers to avoid another election and called for an inquiry into the 7 October attacks.
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