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The Indian Navy has tested anti-ship missiles after a deadly Kashmir attack further strained already fragile ties with Pakistan.
The Indian Navy has released footage showing anti-ship missile tests amid rising tensions with Pakistan following a deadly attack on tourists in the Kashmir region.
The attack, which left 26 people dead, has been blamed by New Delhi on Islamabad. In response, India announced a series of measures to downgrade ties with Pakistan, including suspending a key water-sharing treaty and closing the only land border crossing between the two countries.
Diplomatic relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors were already strained before the latest escalation. Pakistan expelled India's envoy and refused to appoint its own ambassador to New Delhi after India revoked Kashmir’s special status in 2019.
Kashmir, claimed by both Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan, has been plagued by militant violence since an anti-Indian insurgency erupted in 1989. Tens of thousands have been killed over the decades, though violence had declined in recent years.
The Turkish Defence Ministry has voiced its support for recent military operations by Syrian government forces against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which enjoy the support of the United States.
Tens of thousands of users were left unable to access Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Friday, with outages reported across multiple countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.
Armenia has reaffirmed that it has no intention of taking any actions directed against Iran, with senior officials stressing that relations with Tehran remain friendly and constructive.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held separate calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on 16 January, offering Russia’s help to mediate tensions and promote dialogue in the Middle East.
Ashley St. Clair, mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, has filed a lawsuit against Musk’s company xAI, alleging that its AI tool Grok generated explicit images of her, including one portraying her as underage.
The world is entering a more unstable and fragmented phase as global cooperation declines and rivalry between major powers intensifies, the World Economic Forum has warned.
The Trump administration has denied a report that countries would be required to pay $1bn to join a proposed U.S.-backed peace initiative, after Bloomberg News said a draft charter set out a membership fee.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened a sweeping new round of tariffs on several European allies unless the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, escalating a diplomatic row over the Danish Arctic territory.
Leaders from several countries have received invitations to join a so-called U.S.-led ‘Board of Peace’, an initiative that would initially aim to end the conflict in Gaza before expanding to address other global disputes, diplomats said on Saturday.
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