India and the US on Friday held wide-ranging talks to expand their global strategic partnership by shoring up engagement in areas of defence production, critical minerals and high-technology besides focusing on the situation arising out of the Israel-Hamas conflict and China’s military muscle-flexing in the Indo-Pacific. The India-US ‘2+2’ foreign and defence ministerial dialogue took place amid growing geopolitical turmoil,...
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Donald Trump calls GOP debate ‘unwatchable’ during rally in Florida
This marks the third time Trump has opted to skip a Republican National Committee-sanctioned debate and hold an event of his own instead Despite the $250 million New York civil fraud trial, Donald Trump still hopes voters will send him back to the White House. The former US president decided to skip the third Republican Presidential Debate and held a...
Thousands of Palestinians flee south as Israel steps up Gaza City offensive
Thousands of Palestinians fled northern Gaza on Wednesday, traveling miles on foot through the battered enclave in a growing exodus prompted by Israel’s intensified ground and air campaign. Streams of people – women, children, the elderly and disabled – made their way down Salah Eddin Street, one of the two north-south highways in Gaza, along an evacuation corridor announced by the Israel Defense...
Israel-Palestine War: US Deploys Nuclear Submarine In Persian Gulf
Israel Hamas War Live Updates: The Pentagon deployed the nuclear-powered USS Florida attack submarine to the Persian Gulf region as the US makes a show of force to deter Iran, according to US defense officials. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would consider “tactical little pauses” in fighting to facilitate the entry of aid or the exit of hostages...
Israel Says “Gaza Cut Into 2” As Netanyahu Vows To Continue Until Victory
Israel said Sunday it was pounding Gaza with “significant” strikes after cutting it in two, as America’s top diplomat pressed a Middle East tour focused on humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. Israeli forces “have encircled Gaza City… Now there exists a south Gaza and a north Gaza,” army spokesman Daniel Hagari said. He spoke after US Secretary of State visited...
Israel-Hamas war: Benjamin Netanyahu rejects ceasefire calls
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday rejected any calls for a humanitarian pause in the country’s war with Palestinian militants Hamas. Blinken told United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel is “going full steam ahead,” unless the hostages held by Hamas are released. Blinken is on his third visit to Israel since the war erupted between Hamas...
Tel Aviv Says It Has Surrounded GaZa City
Israel on Thursday night intensified its ground offensive against Hamas militants and announced that its troops have encircled the Gaza City. The Israeli Army said it would continue its efforts to “dismantle Hamas” and free hostages. Ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the region, Tel Aviv also clarified that “a ceasefire is not on the table”....
China keeps up military pressure on Taiwan, sending 43 planes and 7 ships
Taiwan said Wednesday that China sent 43 military aircraft and seven ships near the self-ruled island, the latest sign that Beijing plans no let-up in its campaign of harassment, threats and intimidation. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said the figure was current for the 24 hours up to 6:00 a.m. Wednesday and that 37 of the aircraft had crossed the median line...
Thailand announces visa-free entry for Indian citizens For 6 Months
In a move to boost tourism, Thailand is set to waive off visa requirements for travellers coming from India as well as Taiwan from the coming month to May 2024, said a government official in a statement on Tuesday Arrivals from India and Taiwan can enter Thailand for 30 days,” spokesperson Chai Wacharonke said. Thailand had scrapped visa requirements for...
Netanyahu rejects calls for ceasefire as Israel pushes deeper into Gaza
Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza on Monday, advancing in tanks and other armored vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants. The Israeli Prime Minister rejected calls for a ceasefire as airstrikes landed near hospitals where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering beside the wounded. The military said a soldier captured during...
‘We will win, we will prevail’, promises Israeli PM
In a stern warning to Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that “though Israel did not start this war” but “will finish it”. As part of its retaliation against Hamas, Israel has mobilised 3,00,000 troops. This is the largest mobilisation since the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Israel called up 400,000 reservists, Times of Israel reported. “Israel...
US strikes Syria bases used by Iran-linked groups
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the strikes were in response to recent attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups. The US strikes were “separate and distinct from the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas,” he said in a statement. Iran did not immediately comment. The strikes, carried out by a pair of F-16 US...