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Saudi Arabia has shut down its critical East-West oil pipeline after it came under drone attack, as the wider Middle East conflict escalates and Iran-aligned Houthi forces extend their control over Yemen's Red Sea coastline. The Saudi…
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The Kremlin has ruled out any meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the G20 summit in Miami, insisting that any face-to-face talks between the two leaders can only happen in Moscow.…
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Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, said it detected and shut down an attempt by a group in Yemen to use its AI system to develop guided rockets and missiles, amid an ongoing offensive by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the…
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India's trade with BRICS nations has more than doubled over the past five years, climbing from $203 billion in 2020-21 to $417 billion in 2025-26, according to a new report by ASSOCHAM Global Research and Strategy Centre. The report,…
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India spent 2026 running the BRICS chairship under the banner Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability, and behind that fairly abstract sounding theme sits a genuinely practical bet, that a bloc once known mostly…
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Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi in the early hours of Friday for the 18th BRICS Summit, and within hours the aircraft that brought him had generated more online chatter than most of the summit's actual agenda. Meet the Flying Kremlin,…
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The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched EOS-05, an advanced Earth observation satellite, aboard the GSLV-F17 rocket in the early hours of September 4 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The rocket…
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The world's largest sovereign wealth fund has told Norway's government it wants to significantly reduce how much of America's debt it holds. It is a proposal rather than a done deal, but given the size of the fund making it, the mere…
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A map most people have never questioned just lost a vote at the United Nations. On Friday, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution backing a more accurate world map, one that finally shows Africa at something close to its true size,…
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It is not often that a European leader stands in Delhi and openly admits his own continent got something badly wrong while India got it right. That is essentially what Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever did this week, and the confession…
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