Tharoor says India barred 115 foreign speakers from Hyderabad summit
Telangana’s chief minister calls Modi a dictator after visas were cancelled for invited speakers; the foreign ministry says visas are a sovereign matter.
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Trump, Xi and Putin to meet in Shenzhen next week, White House says
The White House says Trump will push for nuclear arms cuts at the first three-way summit with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, though a senior US official expects no agreement.
US measles deaths reach 10 as country reportedly loses elimination status
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin each reported a new death on Friday, as reports said a regional health body had revoked the US measles elimination status it has held since 2000.
India rebukes US religious freedom panel over Sharjeel Imam post
India’s ambassador in Washington said the US Commission on International Religious Freedom had “no locus standi” after it described the jailed activist as detained for his religious freedom advocacy.
ICC judges drop US troops from Afghanistan probe, focus on Taliban
Judges cited “significant limitations” on the prosecution’s ability to gather evidence. The prosecutor’s office says it has already appealed.
VXR festival brings virtual reality art to Islamabad and Rawalpindi
The travelling extended reality festival opened its Islamabad edition at NCA Rawalpindi and the PNCA, where French Ambassador Jean-Noël Poirier inaugurated the evening exhibition.
Iran fired over 7,000 missiles and drones at Gulf states, GCC tells UN
The Gulf Cooperation Council’s secretary-general told the Security Council that the attacks since 28 February hit airports, ports, power plants, and desalination plants, and that the GCC holds Iran fully responsible.
Guterres tells his last COP: ‘You cannot build peace on a burning planet’
In his final COP press conference as UN chief, António Guterres said climate action was central to all the UN’s work and urged climate funds to cut red tape.
Mirwaiz returns to Srinagar pulpit after two weeks under house detention
Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq called repeated restrictions on him unwarranted interference as he gave his first Friday sermon in nearly two weeks.
Tanker hits river cruise boat in New Orleans, all aboard accounted for
Thirty-two people were taken to hospital, none critically hurt, after the Atlantic Asphalt struck the docked American Heritage on the Mississippi, the city’s mayor says.
