✈️ *INTERNATIONAL NEWS*
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1. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar called on Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev in Baku and held talks with Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on trade, investment and energy. He said India and Azerbaijan are ‘independent-minded nations’ that make their own call on important issues.
2. PM Narendra Modi met Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the UAE in New Delhi. UAE Minister of Economy and Tourism Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri said non-oil trade rose to over USD 76 billion in 2025, and the two countries target USD 200 billion in bilateral trade by 2030.
3. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India and China have agreed to discuss ways to improve understanding of the Line of Actual Control in appropriate areas for better border management, adding that the situation is disturbed when Chinese forces diverge from established patrolling patterns.
4. The MEA said about 3,000 stranded Umrah pilgrims have returned from Saudi Arabia, besides over 10,000 others on their booked flights. India also advised its nationals in France, Italy and Belgium to stay away from protest areas.
5. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, P. Harish, told the General Assembly that the UN is losing legitimacy as the outcome of a war fought eight decades ago still shapes the Security Council, and called for reforms to make it more representative and reflective of today’s realities.
6. At the UN, First Secretary Bhavika Mangalanandan countered Pakistan, recalling its refusal to acknowledge the bodies of its soldiers killed in the 1999 Kargil War, and said the Indian Army had buried several Pakistani soldiers with military honours and Islamic rites.
7. At the Berlin Global Dialogue, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) could raise infrastructure costs, fuel inflation and weaken Europe’s competitiveness. He said India has about 17% of the world’s population but less than 3% of global carbon emissions.
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🌎 *WORLD NEWS* 🌍
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1. The White House said US First Lady Melania Trump brokered a localised ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky, starting on 29 October, to allow humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians. Melania Trump said the situation there was ‘on the brink of disaster’.
2. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a closure of Hebron and preparations for a full lockdown of the West Bank after a shooting attack by alleged Hamas militants wounded five people, two of them critically. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for a Gaza-style military campaign in the West Bank.
3. A gunman firing from a car killed one person and wounded five, including a 12-year-old girl, in Trappes and La Verrière, south-west of Paris. President Emmanuel Macron called it a ‘racist terrorist attack’ and a turning point for France; a 39-year-old suspect was arrested, and anti-terrorism prosecutors are investigating it as murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
4. The Louvre, Orsay and Picasso museums in Paris will shut on Saturday over fears of violence during planned protests, France’s culture ministry said. Protests last Saturday turned violent, with arson and looting, and Art Basel Paris cancelled its weekend programme.
5. Taiwan almost completely shut down as Typhoon Champi approached, with nearly 1,000 flights cancelled. One person was killed and 163 injured, 2,639 people were evacuated from mountain areas and over 77,000 homes lost power. Chipmaker TSMC said its operations remained normal.
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