It comes at a time rising global trade tensions and at a pivotal moment for India’s historically protectionist trade strategy, as the Asian giant looks to strike similar deals with partners including the EU, US, and New Zealand.

France, home to Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim communities, is set to become the first major Western nation to recognise a Palestinian state, potentially boosting a movement led by smaller, more Israel-critical countries.

Tensions between the Southeast Asian neighbours have escalated since May, after a Cambodian soldier was killed in a brief gunfire exchange.

At least 16 people, most of them Thai civilians, have died so far in the heaviest fighting between the Southeast Asian neighbours in over a decade.

Cambodia had a defence budget of $1.3 billion in 2024 and 124,300 active military personnel. The Thai army has a total of 245,000 personnel.

There were 42 passengers, including five children, and six crew members on board.

The WHO said the deadly surge in malnutrition has caused the deaths of at least 21 children reported to the agency in 2025, but stressed those figures are likely the tip of the iceberg.

Two Liberia-flagged, Greek-operated cargo ships, Magic Seas and Eternity C, sank off Yemen after repeated attacks by the Iran-aligned militant group

The plane, whose tail number showed it was built in 1976, was operated by a Siberia-based airline called Angara.

Cambodia says Thai jets dropped two bombs on a road, condemns 'aggression'

A plane operated by Siberia-based Angara Airlines went off radar while approaching Tynda in the Amur region near the Chinese border, the local emergencies ministry said.

Tensions flared in May after a Cambodian soldier was killed in a brief gunfight, sparking a diplomatic crisis and renewed clashes.

The agreement will be signed during Modi’s fourth visit to the UK since he took office in 2014.

Their corpses lay in white shrouds outside their bombed home on Wednesday with their names scribbled in pen. Blood seeped through the shrouds as they lay there, staining them red.

Previous talks in Istanbul on May 16 and June 2 led to the exchange of thousands of prisoners of war and the remains of dead soldiers.

Two-way trade between the two countries reached nearly $230 billion in 2024, with Japan running a trade surplus of nearly $70 billion.

More than 800 people have been killed in recent weeks trying to reach food, mostly in mass shootings by Israeli soldiers posted near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centres.

For neighbours downstream, it stirs old anxieties about water security: the Yarlung Zangbo becomes the Brahmaputra in India and Bangladesh, a lifeline for millions.

The reports come after Ishiba and US President Donald Trump unveiled a trade deal that lowers tariffs on imports of Japanese autos and spares Tokyo punishing new levies on other goods.

The International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion is legally non-binding but holds significant legal and political weight, with future climate cases unlikely to ignore it, experts say.