Image used for representation | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Ahead of talks in Beijing on Tuesday (August 25, 2026) between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Hu Shisheng, a leading Chinese strategic affairs scholar on South Asia, said the focus of both countries would be on “institutionalising stability” even as…
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on August 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday (August 24, 2026) released a proposed regulation to codify an unprecedented fee of more than $100,000 on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian meets with Field Marshal Asim Munir, in Tehran, Iran on August 24, 2026 | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir has held “comprehensive discussions” with the Iranian leadership in Tehran, focusing on measures to prevent further escalation of the West Asia conflict and the reopening of the…
Columnist Karen Attiah, who was fired by The Washington Post, accusing her of “gross misconduct” and of violating its social media policies, according to the paper’s own reporting. Photo: X/@KarenAttiah The Washington Post was ordered Monday (August 25, 2026) to reinstate columnist Karen Attiah, who was fired over social media posts she wrote in the…
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir takes the oath of office as the president of Bangladesh, at Bangabhaban in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 21, 2026. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY | Photo Credit: MOHAMMAD PONIR HOSSAIN (This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get…
The story so far: On August 21, 2026, a Shipping Ministry official said that pirates have hijacked two commercial vessels, with 22 Indian seafarers onboard, off Yemen and Somalia. While MT Sibu 1, an Eritrea-flagged oil products tanker with 20 crew members including 16 Indians, was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden, a Cameroon-flagged cargo…
U.S. President Donald Trump with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United States on Monday (August 24, 2026) removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, rescinding a decades-old designation that came with severe economic restrictions and marking another step in warming ties between the countries. The U.S. Department…
The magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 tremors on June 24 devastated the coastal state of La Guaira, where at least 190 buildings fell apart. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Venezuela’s interim government on Monday (August 25, 2026) reported 6,509 deaths from the powerful twin earthquakes that struck the South American nation exactly two months ago. The…
People gather next to the bodies of people they said were their relatives and were killed in a gang attack in the Kenscoff neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on August 24 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Gang members attacked displaced people huddling inside a church near Haiti’s capital, killing around 40, some of them execution-style, the…
Canada will announce retaliatory tariffs against the United States on Tuesday (August 25, 2026), an official familiar with the plans told The Associated Press, escalating a trade fight that has sharply worsened since negotiations with the Trump administration collapsed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the plans…