Author: Disha Mishra

Wang Yi , Chinese Foreign Minister stated on Friday that China will “play along to the end” if the U.S. is bent on suppressing the nation even though Beijing does not wish to be in dispute with Washington, according to Reuters. Wang Yi, briefing at the Munich Security Conference, stated Beijing would reply resolutely to unilateral “bullying” practices, but hopes the United States can collaborate with it in the same direction. Prior this month, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped a further 10% tariff on all Chinese products despite having what he had explained as a “good” telephone call with Chinese…

A world-renowned U.S. program for international disaster and crisis assistance can no longer deploy in the event of a major emergency due to the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. foreign aid agency, nine sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The Disaster Assistance Response Teams, or DARTs, involve highly trained staff who specialize in mobilizing within 24 to 48 hours of a disaster to lead the U.S. government’s humanitarian response on the ground. DARTs have deployed in the worst emergencies in recent history, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that killed 300,000 people, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami…

India and the U.S. agreed on Thursday to start talks to clinch an early trade deal and resolve their standoff over tariffs as New Delhi promised to buy more U.S. oil, gas and military equipment and fight illegal immigration. The series of agreements emerged after talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House, just hours after Trump railed against the climate for U.S. businesses in India and unveiled a roadmap for reciprocal tariffs on countries that put duties on U.S. imports. “Prime Minister Modi recently announced the reductions to India’s unfair, very…

Israeli hostages Iair Horn, Sagui Dekel-Chen and Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov arrived at a release site in Gaza on Saturday after Egyptian and Qatari mediators helped avert a standoff that threatened to sink a fragile ceasefire. Armed Hamas militants led the three onto a stage at the site in Gaza’s Khan Younis, live footage showed. The three are being returned in exchange for 369 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, a swap which eases fears that the agreement could collapse before the end of a 42-day ceasefire. Dekel-Chen, a U.S.-Israeli, Troufanov, a Russian Israeli, and Horn, whose brother Eitan was also abducted, were…

The world’s chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said it had once again found traces of tear gas on the frontline with Russia in Ukraine’s central-east Dnipropetrovsk region. The use of riot control agents such as tear gas as a method of warfare is prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention, the non-proliferation treaty overseen by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Ukraine had requested the assistance of the agency, which deployed a team. The team was not mandated to assign blame, but Ukraine and the United States have said Russia has illegally deployed tear gas to clear trenches.…

Forelines – On Thursday Russia stated that Ukraine would “of course” be engaged in meetings to end the war, but there would be a separate United States-Russia’s strand to the negotiations. Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman further added it could take up to various months to arrange a talk between Russian presidents Vladimir Putin and U.S. president Donald Trump, potentially in the Saudi Arab’s capital Riyadh. The two leaders addressed on Wednesday and declared their intention to meet face-to-face, shortly following Donald Trump’s defense secretary bluntly said allies that Washington did not support NATO membership for Ukraine and that it was…

The Palestinian militant group Hamas signalled on Thursday that a crisis threatening to unravel the Gaza ceasefire deal could be avoided despite uncertainty over the number of hostages due to be released on Saturday and disagreements over aid supplies. The 42-day ceasefire has appeared close to failure this week as Israel and Hamas each accused the other of violating the agreement sealed last month with the help of Egyptian and Qatari mediators and U.S. support. Hamas said it did not want the deal to collapse, though it rejected what it called the “language of threats and intimidation” from Israeli Prime…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will come bearing gifts when he meets Donald Trump on Thursday, hoping concessions on tariffs, fresh business deals and the prospect of cooperation on China will win the U.S. president’s favor. Trump, not yet one month into his presidency, has wielded the threat of tariffs against friend and foe alike to try to extract new trade deals, investment or law enforcement help. India may not be an exception: Although Trump had a warm relationship with Modi in his first term, he has called India a “very big abuser” on trade and his levies on steel…

(Forelines) – United States intelligence alerts that Israel is likely to carry out a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear program by middle of the year, according to the Washington Post on Wednesday, quoting several intelligence reports. Such a strike would set back Iran’s nuclear program by weeks or months while rising tension in the area and risking a wider dispute, as per several intelligence reports from the end of the Biden administration and begin of the Trump administration, as per the Washington Post report. The White House refused to comment. The Washington Post stated the government of Israel, CIA, Defense…

More than 10 million devout Hindus seeking absolution from their sins took a dip in holy waters in northern India during a span of four hours on Wednesday, authorities said, as they braced for millions more to swarm the site of the Kumbh Mela. Authorities stepped up the numbers of police officers and put air ambulances on standby in the city of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh state on one of the holiest days of the Hindu festival, considered the world’s largest gathering of humanity. “There are more people in this city in one day than the population of many countries,…