✈️ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. After talks between PM Narendra Modi and Polish PM Donald Tusk in New Delhi, India and Poland agreed to double bilateral trade by 2030, set up a Defence Industry Dialogue and a dialogue on counter-terrorism, and boost cooperation in defence, space and nuclear energy. Poland has joined the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), MEA Secretary (West) Sibi George said.
2. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to PM Narendra Modi and invited him to light a torch at Israel’s Independence Day celebrations along with Indian pilot Smit Machchhar. Netanyahu said Modi thanked him for the invitation.
3. The MEA said one Indian national was killed and two were injured in the attack on Dammam airport in Saudi Arabia, and another Indian was injured in a drone incident at the Shaybah oil field; India called the attacks unacceptable. Separately, the MEA said about 3,000 stranded Umrah pilgrims have returned from Saudi Arabia in the past week.
4. All 21 Indian crew members of the Kuwait-flagged tanker M/T AL DASMA are safe after it was hit by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said. India’s embassy is verifying a Houthi claim that a yacht carrying 14 Indians was targeted near Zuqar Island in the Red Sea.
5. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar visits Azerbaijan today, the first visit by an Indian External Affairs Minister in eight years; the last was by Sushma Swaraj in April 2018. He will meet his Azerbaijani counterpart to review bilateral ties.
6. At the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, India’s First Secretary Raghoo Puri criticised a report by UN Special Rapporteur Ben Saul for calling Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company an ‘India-based’ group, and called for accuracy and impartiality in UN reports.
7. Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha and Sri Lanka’s Housing Minister H.M. Susil Ranasinghe handed over 24 houses at the Didula Model Village in Galle district under India’s Model Village Housing Project. The project covers all 25 districts, with 600 houses; villages have been handed over in 22 districts.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said seven oil tankers were damaged overnight — four hit and set on fire in the Persian Gulf and three disabled by mines west of the Strait of Hormuz — and warned it could strike US bases in the region. The claims could not be independently verified.
2. The World Health Organization reported the first known human case of Shamonda virus, in France; the patient, who had a weakened immune system, died. The virus is spread by biting midges and usually affects livestock.
3. UN relief chief Tom Fletcher warned that the El Niño weather pattern could act like a ‘wrecking ball’, worsening droughts, floods and hunger in already vulnerable regions.
4. A magnitude 7.0 earthquake at a depth of 10 km struck Baqen County of Nagqu City in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region at 10:33 pm local time on Thursday, killing 16 people and injuring 46, 11 of them seriously, local authorities said. Houses of 339 households collapsed or were damaged, and rescue operations are continuing.
5. US President Donald Trump asked Elon Musk to lift restrictions on Starlink services in Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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