U.S. President Donald Trump demanded several Muslim countries join the Abraham Accords recognising Israel as part of a deal with Iran, but the plan appears doomed to failure, experts said. Mr. Trump’s surprise demand on Monday (May 25, 2026) came at the height of the latest negotiations with Tehran and hours before an American strike…
Street with a destroyed shopping mall, which was hit during yesterday’s Russian missile and drone attack, amid Russia’s attack in Kyiv, Ukraine on May 25, 2026. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia fired more than 100 drones and two ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said Tuesday (May 26, 2026), as the…
The Quad grouping has announced major new initiatives to strengthen cooperation across the Indo-Pacific. At a meeting in New Delhi, chaired by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, leaders from India, the United States, Australia, and Japan came together to address growing strategic challenges in the region. We look at the key announcements. Source link
A passenger van struck an elephant in a Ugandan National Park, killing three people and injuring four others, police said. The crash happened on Sunday (May 24, 2026) on a paved road inside Murchison Falls National Park, police said in a statement on Monday (May 25, 2026). The van was transporting employees of the Uganda…
(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.) When Fidel Castro laid out the plans to storm the Moncada Barracks in 1953, his younger brother Raul was just 22. He signed up for the attack. The barracks…
Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto An airliner carrying a group of Australian women and children linked to the Islamic State (IS) group landed in Melbourne on Tuesday (May 26, 2026) despite Australian government warnings that they could face charges. Another group of women and children linked to IS, who have spent…
Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist and restless genius whose bold, distinctive tone and constant experimentation kept him on the cutting edge of jazz for more than 50 years, died on Monday (May 25, 2026) at the age of 95. Also read | Remembering the divas who shaped jazz history Spokesperson Terri Hinte told The Associated…
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping prior to a bilateral meeting in Beijing, Monday, May 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP China and Pakistan have reached a “new broad consensus” on deepening strategic ties to beef up development of a joint economic corridor and establish the port of…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that his country’s status as a nuclear-armed state was irreversible and that expanding a “self-defensive nuclear deterrent” was essential to national security. File picture | Photo Credit: AP North Korea fired an unidentified projectile off the country’s west coast on Tuesday (May 26, 2026), South Korea’s Joint Chiefs…
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares to board his plane at Jaipur International Airport in Jaipur, India on May 26, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday (May 26, 2026) that a deal with Iran was still possible despite new American strikes that cast doubt on…