Aarna Saini 
Twenty foreign leaders are attending the SCO Plus summit being organised by China, which is this year’s rotating chair of the 10-member bloc comprising Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus and China. – PTI Source link
President Donald Trump walks at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Saturday, August 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP The Trump administration is advancing plans to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday (August 30, 2025), citing a White House official, after U.S. … Read more
Thousands of people protested on Saturday (August 31, 2025) against Israel’s siege of Gaza on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival, seeking to move the spotlight from movie drama to real-world trauma. Organised by left-wing political groups in northeast Italy, the demonstration began in the early evening a few kilometres from the festival where … Read more
This undated photo provided by The Hostages Families Forum Headquarters on August 30, 2025, shows Israeli hostage Idan Shtivi (28) whose body was recovered in an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. | Photo Credit: AP Israel identified the body of hostage Idan Shtivi, recovered from the Gaza Strip in a military operation this … Read more
A Philippine Coast Guard ship is seen surrounded by Chinese maritime militia vessels and a Chinese Coast Guard ship during a resupply mission for Filipino troops stationed at a grounded warship in the South China Sea, October 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Taiwan’s Foreign Minister has flown to the Philippines as head of a … Read more
An aerial view shows the Republic of Nauru. File | Photo Credit: AFP Australia has announced an agreement with the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru, enabling it to send hundreds of immigrants to the barren island. Also Read | Nauru agrees to give Australia a veto right over a range of pacts with third nations … Read more
The Starship megarocket lifts off on its 10th test flight from the SpaceX Starbase in Texas, August 26, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP On a humid Texas evening on August 26, after many weather delays and ground system hiccups, the world’s largest rocket finally rose from its pad as part of Flight 10. The 379-feet-tall … Read more
On July 17, 2024, Peter Kent Navarro walked out of a federal prison in Miami, and a few hours later, emerged on the stage of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee in Wisconsin. “I went to prison so that you do not have to,” he told the believers of MAGA [Make America Great Again] … Read more
Thailand’s suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra waves as she leaves the Government House after being dismissed from her position, in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Thailand’s lack of a formal government will not affect border security with Cambodia, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday (August 30, 2025), as the kingdom … Read more
In this image posted on August 30, 2025, Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting with the Nepalese Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, in Tianjin, China. Photo: @kpsharmaoli/X via PTI Photo Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli of Nepal became one of the first foreign leaders to … Read more
