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The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has a crisis team on standby in Delhi and in London, the foreign secretary said. ‘My thoughts, and I’m sure those of the entire house, are with those who’ve been affected by the tragic plane crash in Ind…
A plane crashed in India’s north-western city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state on Thursday, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Air India said the crashed aircraft was flight AI171, a passenger flight to Gatwick in the UK. Footage on local tele…
South Korea held a snap election to choose a successor to Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached over his martial law declaration in December. The winner, the Democratic party’s Lee Jae-myung, 61, has promised political and economic reforms to help the count…
A Chinese paraglider who was accidentally carried more than 8,000 metres into the air by an updraft has been banned from flying for six months after footage of his ordeal went viral. Peng Yujiang started his reported practice flight from an elevation …
Footage shows moment Brigitte Macron apparently shoves the French president away as they touched down in Hanoi for a state visit. He later played down the incident and told reporters in Hanoi they were ‘joking about’ Continue reading…
Bella Culley, 18, was arrested in Tbilisi on Tuesday on suspicion of illegally buying, possessing and importing large quantities of narcotics including marijuana. The teenager’s family had thought she had gone missing while travelling in Thailand becau…
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has said his country would not tolerate nuclear blackmail from Pakistan and ‘will strike precisely and decisively at the terrorist hideouts’. Addressing his country for the first time, Modi said India had only sus…
In a very brief press conference, India confirmed both countries had agreed to an immediate ceasefire through US-mediated talksKashmir crisis live: Pakistan and India agree pause in fighting Continue reading…
Footage shows the aftermath of India’s missile attack on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Wednesday, in the worst fighting between the two nuclear-armed nations for decadesKashmir crisis live: Pakistan PM authorises armed forces …
India announced a barrage of diplomatic measures downgrading ties with Pakistan and accused its neighbour of supporting cross-border terrorism after 26 people were killed in a militant attack in Kashmir on Tuesday. The measures included closing a key l…
Tens of thousands of police officers and troops are involved in a huge manhunt across Kashmir to find the gunmen who fired at tourists in the Baisaran Valley, a picturesque meadow in Pahalgam, killing 26 people. The attack on Tuesday was the worst atro…
In the keynote policy speech of his four-day visit to India, US vice-president JD Vance warned that without cooperation between the US and India, the 21st century could become a ‘very dark time for all of humanity’. Vance also said the two countries we…
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said his forces had captured two Chinese nationals fighting for Russia in Donetsk, describing it as an important development that Washington should take heed of. He said Ukraine was strong but it could not …
China’s government says it will ‘fight to the end’ if the US continues to escalate the trade war, after Donald Trump threatened huge additional tariffs in response to Beijing’s retaliatory measures. A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said:…
Trump’s tariffs are ‘a typical act of unilateralism, protectionism, and economic bullying,’ Lin Jian, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, has said. Trump has slapped China, the world’s second-biggest economy, with additional 34% tariffs, b…