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India and the United Kingdom have concluded the 15th Executive Steering Group (ESG) meeting in London from 17 to 19 June 2026, producing a forward-looking roadmap to deepen defence cooperation, expand interoperability, and strengthen their enduring military partnership.The talks also coincided with broader India–UK engagements in trade, technology, and defence industry collaboration, marking a
External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, presently on a two-day official visit to the Republic of Korea, held a high-level strategic dialogue in Seoul with Wi Sung-lac, Director of the Office of National Security.The meeting was a critical element of Jaishankar’s broader diplomatic outreach, designed to align Indian and South Korean perspectives on the increasingly complex international
A U.S. airstrike in northwest Syria on 19 June 2026 killed Ali Husayn al‑Ulaywi, a senior Islamic State leader, marking a significant blow to the group’s attempts to reassert itself in the region. The strike underscores Washington’s continuing commitment to dismantling ISIS remnants and protecting American and allied interests.The U.S. Central Command confirmed that the precision strike targeted
Unidentified extremists destroyed a government girls’ primary school in South Waziristan’s Birmal tehsil late on 24 June 2026, marking the third such attack in the area this year and underscoring Pakistan’s deepening terror crisis and collapse of security around female education.The explosion occurred in the Sara Ghowara area of Birmal tehsil, where attackers used explosives to completely
Iran has declared that the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog will not be permitted to inspect nuclear facilities that were bombed by the United States and Israel during last year’s conflict.This announcement came as the first round of talks aimed at ending the Middle East war concluded in Switzerland.Tehran and Washington have signed a memorandum of understanding to bring an end to the war, which
Kenyan police put on a massive show of force Thursday in a bid to prevent protests marking two years since a landmark Gen Z uprising.
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Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers’ own clouds to help them skip per-byte ingestion costs, raised a $35M Series A led by Singular — Tsuga, a Paris startup building o…
Powerful earthquakes struck on three continents in 24 hours, collapsing buildings, rattling homes, and killing at least 164 people. Venezuela was the hardest hit when back-to-back quakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 quakes hit on Wednesday, collapsi…
Powerful earthquakes struck on three continents in 24 hours, collapsing buildings, rattling homes, and killing at least 32 people. Venezuela was the hardest hit when back-to-back quakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 quakes hit on Wednesday, collapsin…
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