World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
Protesters torched a police station and a state power company office in Pasighat over a planned mega-dam on the Siang that Adi villagers say will drown their ancestral land.
Turnout hit 66.7 per cent by 6pm, the highest at that hour in decades, as Netanyahu accused Arab citizens of trying to “steal” the election.
Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, sued for defamation by Adani Enterprises, says his film The Friendship Files has struck a nerve at the highest levels.
Pakistani diplomat Gul Qaiser Sarwani told the veto debate that new permanent seats would deepen inequality and risk paralysing the Council. "Reform for all. Privilege for none!"
Ramesh Singh Arora answered the Indian Punjab chief minister’s wish to attend a Lahore conference with an open invitation to Kartarpur, while doubting New Delhi would let him come.
A former judge’s Rashtriya Adhikar Morcha plans to fight 150 seats in next year’s Uttar Pradesh election, as Brahmin voters angry over university caste rules weigh whether to stay with the BJP.
Iran’s president urged Islamic countries to “stand together” as he hosted Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye in Tehran, and the four agreed to continue talks after their first meeting.
Saudi Arabia’s defence minister, Field Marshal Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin began talks with Iran’s leadership on Monday, as Riyadh called for negotiations to prevent a renewed war.
Field Marshal Asim Munir, Prince Khalid bin Salman and Ibrahim Kalin are set to meet Iran’s leadership in Tehran, in talks a senior Iranian official says Pakistan initiated.
Bhagwant Mann says he has been invited to the International Punjabi Conference in Lahore, but doubts India's BJP-led government will let him go.
