✈️ *INTERNATIONAL NEWS*
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1. Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Manila for the 23rd ASEAN–India Summit, MEA Secretary (East) Rudendra Tandon released the third ASEAN–India Development and Cooperation Report 2026, ‘Navigating Global Uncertainties and Strengthening Partnerships’.
2. India and the US are working to finalise an interim trade deal by the end of this financial year, and the US has assured India of a comparative tariff advantage over competing countries once it finalises its tariff structure.
3. India desires a positive, constructive and forward-looking relationship with Bangladesh, and the next round of the India–Bangladesh Consular Dialogue, which will also take up revised travel arrangements, will be held on a mutually convenient date, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
4. India has made a formal consular request to Pakistan and is in touch with the shipping company and its agent to help six Indian seafarers stranded aboard a vessel at Karachi port for over six months, the MEA said. Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the delay stems from an employment dispute between the crew and the ship’s owner, and that crew members cannot leave the ship until a replacement crew arrives. “Essentially, it is a commercial issue between the shipping company and the employees,” he said.
5. Representatives of China, Kazakhstan, Iran, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are among those who have confirmed participation in the first Civilisational Dialogue Forum of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), to be held in New Delhi from 20 to 22 November,
6. India, Oman and the UAE will set up a trilateral technical committee to address flight-operational challenges and coordinate regional airspace operations, Civil Aviation Minister K. Ram Mohan Naidu said.
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🌎 *WORLD NEWS* 🌍
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1. Russia has agreed to let European representatives join the next round of US-mediated Ukraine peace talks.
2. Armed men killed at least 37 civilians in an ambush in western Niger’s Tillaberi region near the borders with Burkina Faso and Mali, The victims, from Tillim village, were heading to a weekly market in the town of Tera under escort of a local self-defence group.
3. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards navy said a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas struck a naval mine and suffered an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz while using what it called an “unauthorised and dangerous route”, a day after Iranian media reported explosions on four oil tankers in the waterway. Separately, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in a report, urged Iran to take “incremental steps” to let inspectors return to key nuclear sites, saying it cannot conclude that no declared nuclear material has been diverted.
4. A Chinese company founded by Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese spy at the centre of the scandal that led to the resignation of Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, obtained banned Nvidia H800 AI chips.
5. A global outage of Microsoft’s cloud services hit Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive and other Microsoft 365 services, with users in 74 countries affected and nearly 1,30,000 reports of Outlook problems on Downdetector. Microsoft blamed unexpected server failures and problems with automated health checks, said there was no evidence of a cyberattack, and continued recovery work on Friday. In India, the email support services of IndiGo and Air India were among those affected.
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