International & World News – 16 May 2025

INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. The Government has dismissed the reports carried by several news channels and social media posts, claiming that External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar said Chinese satellites helped Pakistan.

2. External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar says, Indus Waters Treaty will be held in abeyance untill cross-border terrorism by Pakistan stops credibly and irrevocably. He has ruled out any third party mediation between India and Pakistan, reiterating that New Delhi’s dealings with Islamabad will be strictly bilateral.

3. British political commentator and writer David Vance has extended strong support to Operation Sindoor, calling it long overdue and a necessary move.

4. The Government has revoked the security clearance of Turkish ground handling firm Celebi Airport Services India Private Limited with immediate effect.

5. High Court of Justice in London on Thursday rejected a fresh bail petition filed by diamantaire Nirav Modi, who is held in a prison there and wanted in India in the Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case orchestrated with his uncle Mehul Choksi.

6. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Honduras, Eduardo Enrique Reina Garcia, has arrived in New Delhi. He will inaugurate the Embassy of Honduras in New Delhi.

7. India has strongly reacted to China’s latest attempt to rename parts of Arunachal Pradesh. In a statement released on Wednesday morning, the Ministry of External Affair said that ‘Arunachal Pradesh was, is, and will always remain an integral part of India.’

8. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday (May 15, 2025) held a telephone conversation with the “Acting Afghan Foreign Minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi. The conversation came days after the Taliban administration, that India is yet to officially recognise, condemned the deadly terror strike in Pahalgam of April 22 that left 26 innocents dead and dozens injured.

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WORLD NEWS
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1. A much-anticipated round of direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Türkiye unraveled into confusion yesterday. While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Türkiye, Russian President Vladimir Putin dispatched a second-tier team of negotiators. The Russian President has stayed away from a face-to-face meeting with the Ukrainian President in Türkiye.

2. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced he will not attend the upcoming peace talks with Russia in Istanbul. However, Ukraine will send a delegation led by Defence Minister Rustem Umerov to support efforts toward de-escalation.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also said he would not attend the much-anticipated peace talks. He said no real progress is expected until US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet directly.

3. Israeli air strikes have killed 115 people across the Gaza Strip since midnight, marking one of the deadliest days in recent weeks. Fifty-six people were killed when homes and tents sheltering displaced families were bombed overnight in the southern city of Khan Younis.

4. In Australia, the death toll from an outbreak of the tropical disease melioidosis, linked to heavy rainfall and flooding in the northern part of the country, has reached 31 this year.

It takes the total number of reported cases in Queensland in 2025 to 221, an increase of 163 compared to the same point in 2024.

5. Pakistan government has repatriated about 1.3 million Afghan nationals so far since November 2023. This assertion was stated by Pakistan’s Parliamentary Secretary Mukhtar Ahmed Malik during a meeting.

6. US President Donald J. Trump signed a landmark agreement with Qatar on Wednesday to generate an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion, highlighting his second stop in a high-profile Middle East tour. During the visit, Trump announced economic deals totalling more than $243.5 billion between the United States and Qatar, including a historic sale of Boeing aircraft and GE Aerospace engines to Qatar Airways.

7. Baloch nationalist leaders have declared independence from Pakistan, citing decades of violence, enforced disappearances, and human rights violations in the region. Social media was flooded with images of Balochistan’s proposed national flag and maps of an independent Baloch state, as ‘Republic of Balochistan’ trended widely.

8. Bangladesh Bank (BB) agreed with the condition of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to switch to a market-based exchange regime to get loan confirmation.

9. According to reports, In Somalia, at least 17 people have been killed and more than 84,000 others displaced due to flash floods following torrential rains across the country since mid-April.

10. US President Donald Trump met Syria’s interim President and former Islamist rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on the sidelines of the summit of the United States and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh. Trump urges Syrian President to normalise relations with Israel.

11. Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, famously known as the “world’s poorest president” due to his humble lifestyle, passed away at the age of 89 after battling oesophageal cancer.

12. Brazilian microbiologist Mariangela Hungria has been awarded the prestigious 2025 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking research on biological nitrogen fixation, a natural process that enables crops to grow with fewer chemical fertilizers.

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