✈️ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan met a delegation of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) led by David McAllister at Parliament House. He said India and the EU, as the two largest democracies and open market economies, share an interest in shaping a resilient multipolar world order.
2. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held talks with Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger in New Delhi on trade, investment, startups, space, skilling and mobility. He said India looks forward to the India-EU FTA entering into force in the coming months.
3. The MEA said Jaishankar will attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Atlanta, US, on 30–31 October and a Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on the sidelines, then lead India’s delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, from 1 to 4 November.
4. India and Mexico signed the Terms of Reference for a Preferential Trade Agreement, formally launching negotiations. They were signed in Mexico by Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal and Mexico’s Undersecretary of Foreign Trade Luis Rosendo Gutiérrez Romano.
5. The MEA said 22 Indians, including 14 seafarers, have been killed in the ongoing West Asia conflict, three of them in Saudi Arabia. India voiced serious concern over Houthi attacks on Saudi infrastructure and the threat to shipping through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.
6. Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal met HD Hyundai Chairman Chung Ki-sun in Seoul on the proposed greenfield mega shipyard at Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. A Joint Working Group will steer the project, with the joint venture structure and DPR expected within six months.
7. At CBD COP17 in Yerevan, Armenia, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav released four Indian publications on biodiversity conservation, biosafety and access and benefit sharing, and called for turning global biodiversity commitments into implementation, sustainable finance and cooperation.
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🌎 *WORLD NEWS* 🌍
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1. At least 68 people were killed when a Renfe AVE high-speed train collided with an Iryo train near Urda in Spain’s Toledo province on the Madrid–Seville line. PM Pedro Sánchez ordered an investigation, promising a strong response if negligence is found, and declared three days of national mourning from 29 to 31 October.
2. Israel’s election produced no clear majority: with about 85.6% of votes counted, PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc had 53 seats and Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc 48, with Arab-led parties projected to win 19; 61 seats are needed in the 120-member Knesset. Likud alleged fraud at Arab polling stations.
3. More than 100 people were killed and 113 injured in a drone strike on a busy market in Nyala, capital of Sudan’s South Darfur, said the rights group Emergency Lawyers, which blamed the Sudanese army. Nyala is held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
4. The US Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 3.75–4% in a 10-2 vote, with two members favouring a 25-basis-point hike, citing persistently elevated inflation.
5. The World Bank said global commodity prices are projected to rise 23% in 2026, with energy prices up 32%, as the Middle East conflict disrupts oil and grain shipments. Brent crude is forecast to average $91 a barrel in 2026, up from $69 in 2025.
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