✈️ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. PM Shri Narendra Modi interacted with MPs from BRICS nations attending the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum in New Delhi and exchanged perspectives on a wide range of issues.
2. In his inaugural address at the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urged BRICS Parliaments to strengthen their resolve for people-centric development, global peace and sustainability, saying dialogue and diplomacy matter even more amid wars, trade tensions, terrorism and climate change. An Iranian parliamentary delegation invited him to visit Iran.
3. India and Canada held the inaugural meeting of their Migration and Mobility Dialogue in New Delhi, co-chaired by MEA Secretary (CPV & OIA) Sripriya Ranganathan and Canada’s Deputy Minister of Immigration Ted Gallivan. They signed the Terms of Reference and discussed the mobility of students, skilled workers and professionals; the next round will be in Canada.
4. Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, accompanied by Hereditary Princess Sophie and a business delegation, arrived in New Delhi on his State Visit to India after stops in Mumbai and Vadodara, and was received by MoS Jayant Chaudhary.
5. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal told the India-Netherlands Business Forum in The Hague that India and the US have concluded most discussions on a bilateral trade pact and are fine-tuning it, adding that India has concluded nine free trade agreements in four and a half years.
6. China said its troops carry out “normal” border patrols and urged India to work with it to maintain peace, after the MEA said the border situation is disturbed when Chinese forces deviate from established patrolling patterns. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said the two sides keep communicating through diplomatic and military channels.
7. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is scheduled to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting to be hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Atlanta on 30–31 October, which will set the stage for the G20 leaders’ meeting in December.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, won a record fourth term, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro in the runoff with about 51.8% of the valid votes to 48.2%, according to Datafolha projections. By the end of this term he will have spent 16 years in power.
2. Serbia’s student-led movement won Sunday’s snap parliamentary election, ending 14 years in power for Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS); Vučić, its prime ministerial candidate, conceded defeat. The vote followed nearly two years of protests over the 2024 Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse that killed 16 people.
3. Bulgaria’s presidential election ended without a winner amid record-low turnout; incumbent Iliana Yotova will face former caretaker PM Andrey Gyurov in a runoff on 1 November.
4. At least 58 bodies have been recovered after unknown gunmen attacked the Binnari community on its weekly market day in Nigeria’s Taraba State; four security personnel were among those killed and no group has claimed responsibility.
5. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a coordinated drone attack on five power stations — two each in Al-Jazira and Gedaref states and one in White Nile state — causing mass power outages across the army-held east. The army and the RSF have been at war since April 2023.
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