Category: World

India has reportedly declined to sign a joint statement issued by a high-level Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in China after it mentioned terrorist activities in Pakistan’s Balochistan. Singh, as reported by the Times of India, the SCO Defence Ministers’ meeting’s joint document also failed to feature any reference to the Pahalgam incident — which saw several tourists being killed in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The SCO huddle, being held in Qingdao and bringing together 10 member states’ ministers — including those from Russia, China, India and Pakistan. The meeting…

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By Muhammad Sohail Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský attended the NATO summit in The Hague on 24–25 June as a member of the delegation led by President Petr Pavel. At the summit, the leaders of the 32 member states of the Alliance supported new Alliance commitments that will strengthen NATO’s defence capabilities and agreed to increase defence spending to 5% of GDP. They unanimously expressed their support for Ukraine and confirmed their firm stance towards Russia, which poses a long-term and direct threat to the entire Euro-Atlantic area. Minister Lipavský’s programme…

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United States President Donald Trump has successfully fended off an impeachment attempt in the House of Representatives as a resolution introduced by Representative Al Green, aimed at impeaching Trump over recent military strikes on Iran, was overwhelmingly tabled with a vote of 344 to 79. A significant bloc of Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, joined all 216 House Republicans to defeat the measure, reflecting caution following Trump’s two prior impeachment failures. In contrast, 79 House Democrats, mainly progressives from safe districts, voted…

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New York City Democrats chose 33-year-old Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani as their mayoral candidate in Tuesday’s elections, stunning his opponent, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. “Tonight was not our night,” Cuomo, a political veteran who was vying to come back from a sexual harassment scandal, told supporters at an election night party. “I called him, I congratulated him… he won.” In what appears to be the left-leaning city’s rebuke of the Democratic party’s veteran moderates — and New York’s rarely claimed native son, Republican US President Donald Trump —…

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THE HAGUE: US President Donald Trump swept into NATO’s Hague summit Tuesday, with allies hoping a pledge to ramp up defence spending will keep the unpredictable leader of the military superpower committed to protecting them. Trump joined leaders from NATO’s 31 other members to begin the two-day gathering with a dinner hosted by Dutch King Willem-Alexander in the ornate Orange Hall at his royal residence. The alliance hopes to keep Trump bound to its mutual defence vow by meeting his demand for a headline figure of five percent of GDP…

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President Donald Trump has called on Senate Republicans to swiftly pass his expansive tax-cut and spending legislation, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” even as internal disagreements threaten its progress, Reuters reported. To push the bill through Congress before the 4 July Independence Day holiday, Republican leaders face resistance from within their ranks. While hardliners are demanding significant cuts to federal spending to curb the ballooning deficit, moderates are pushing back, raising concerns about the bill’s potential impact on key social programmes such as Medicaid, which provides healthcare support to…

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday stated that China can continue purchasing oil from Iran following the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran — though the White House stressed this does not signal any easing of US sanctions. “China can now continue to purchase Oil from Iran. Hopefully, they will be purchasing plenty from the US, also,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, just days after authorising US airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities. A senior White House official told Reuters that Trump was highlighting Iran’s decision not to close the Strait…

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Qatar’s prime minister said on Tuesday relations with Iran were scarred by an Iranian missile volley at a US airbase in the Gulf Arab state, but that he hoped ties would eventually “come back to normal”. Iran responded to US participation in Israel’s air war against Iran by firing missiles on Monday at the Al Ubeid air base. Still, no one was hurt after Tehran gave a warning, and a ceasefire was announced hours later by Washington. Qatar, situated just across the Gulf from Iran, has often acted as a…

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President and CEO of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Borge Brende warned Tuesday that the world is grappling with its “most complex” geopolitical and geo-economic landscape in decades, a situation that is significantly “impacting global growth”. Brende issued the stark warning ahead of the multilateral forum’s meeting in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, often referred to as the “Summer Davos.” “It is the most complex geopolitical and geo-economic backdrop we’ve seen in decades,” Brende told AFP on Tuesday. He further cautioned that a failure to revive economic expansion could unfortunately lead…

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In order to clear the air, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said early on Tuesday that there was no “agreement” on any ceasefire between Israel and Iran. But he added that if Israel stopped its “illegal aggression” against the Iranian people no later than 4 a.m. Tehran time (0030 GMT) on Tuesday, Iran had no intention of continuing its response afterwards. “The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later,” Araqchi added in a post on X. “The military operations of our powerful Armed Forces…

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