The visit of Nepal Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal to Delhi, which followed right after the visit of Nepal’s new ruling party RSP’s President Rabi Lamichhane and ahead of a proposed visit by the new Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle, signals an intense outreach between Delhi and Kathmandu’s new leadership. Mr. Khanal had met External Affairs Minister…
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) holds a press conference after the House passage of an Immigration bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on June 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters A bill to provide nearly $70 billion for immigration enforcement narrowly passed the House on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) and now goes…
U.S. Central Command said the strikes would be “a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression”. Photo credit:X/CENTCOM Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded on social media after the U.S. military carried out strikes following the crash of an U.S. Army Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz. “Leave our region if you want to be…
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. File | Photo Credit: PTI Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi urged foreign forces on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) to leave the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding areas, warning that they face a persistent risk of being caught in the crossfire.” “The Strait of Hormuz is NOT international waters but shared…
A fire burns during a protest after a knife attack on June 8 left a man seriously injured and prompted police to declare a critical incident, on Newtownards Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Protesters on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) torched a bus and other vehicles and blocked…
Police officials patrol an area amid the ongoing violence in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after violent clashes in Muzaffarabad, PoK on June 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI India on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) called on the global community to hold Pakistan accountable for the loss of lives in the police crackdown in Rawalkot, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir…
‘U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed on building a constructive relationship of strategic stability’. | Photo Credit: AP In the past six months, specifically from December 2025 to May 2026, the top leaders of all the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) have visited China. In…
The meeting will mark the first interaction between Modi and Trump since they last met in February 2025 in Washington DC. File | Photo Credit: AP Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit taking place in Evian, France on June 16-17, official sources…
Seven people were killed in eastern Afghanistan when a scrap collector sawed into a recovered shell, residents and the police told AFP on Tuesday (June 9, 2026). Decades of conflict have left Afghanistan littered with the explosive remnants of war, with the country registering the third-highest casualty rate globally according to the United Nations. The…
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