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India needs to be more vocal about violations of international law and use its global weight to push for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin has said, while urging New Delhi to examine arms transfers to Israel seriously. In an interview with The Hindu, Ms. Shahin said Palestine had…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attends a session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on September 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday (September 1, 2026) that Tehran would “immediately” reciprocate if the United States returned to a June deal aimed at ending their war. “I…
Nepal’s Forestry and Environment Minister Gita Chaudhary. File | Photo Credit: facebook.com/gita.chaudhary.5 Nepal’s Forestry and Environment Minister Gita Chaudhary has called for climate change and environmental issues to be made a top national priority, local media reported on Tuesday (September 1, 2026). Follow the updates of the Nepal flash floods on September 1, 2026. Her…
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Employees remove debris in a front of a sorting terminal of Nova Post company hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, on August 31, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Indian citizen was among 12 people killed in the latest Russian attacks on Ukraine, President…
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Nepal Army soldiers work during a search and rescue operation near the Hydropower Project sites, following deadly flash floods and mudslides, in Rasuwa district, Nepal, on September 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters India’s specialised tunnel rescue team made progress at two hydropower sites in flood-hitNepal, establishing a foothold inside a tunnel at Chilime and…
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(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.) After Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack in Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed, the Jewish nation launched an immediate retaliatory war on Gaza. Its leaders vowed to…
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U.S. Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation, the White House confirmed on Monday (August 31, 2026) , following reports of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Asked about a Wall Street Journal report that Mr. Driscoll had resigned, White House Principal…
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A jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur, finally bringing a measure of resolution to a case that had gripped hip-hop fans and lingered in the public imagination for decades. The 63-year-old Davis was convicted on Monday (August 31, 2026) of a single count of…
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People gather as NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani hold a press conference at the scene of an officer-involved shooting, in Times Square, New York City, U.S. August 31, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters A knife-wielding woman stabbed and killed a person and injured another in New York’s tourist-filled Times…
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“The flood in the Bhote Koshi River in Rasuwa was not an ordinary flood,” Prime Minister Balendra Shah said in a social media post late on Monday. “It was one of the region’s major disasters, triggered by an avalanche of snow and ice in the Himalayan region,” he said. “This incident indicates that the risks…