Beijing leverages military satellite network and close ties with Pakistan to monitor Indian defence systems amid aerial clashes over Kashmir.

The fighting is the deadliest since a limited conflict between the two countries in Kashmir’s Kargil region in 1999.

President Vladimir Putin, the longest-serving Kremlin chief since Josef Stalin, stood beside Xi, several dozen other leaders and Russian veterans on a roofed tribune beside Vladimir Lenin’s mausoleum on Red Square as Russian troops marched past.

South Korea and the Czech Republic reaffirmed their commitment on Wednesday to advance their $18 billion nuclear power plant construction deal and expand cooperation across key industrial sectors

Sirens blared for more than two hours on Friday in India’s border city of Amritsar, which houses the Golden Temple revered by Sikhs, and residents were asked to remain indoors.

Gates said he believed the money would help achieve several of his goals, such as eradicating diseases like polio and malaria, ending preventable deaths among women and children, and reducing global poverty.

Prevost becomes the 267th Catholic pope following the death of Francis, who was the first from Latin America and who ruled for 12 years.

Fight pits Chinese jets, missiles against European weapons

Two days of fighting have killed nearly four dozen people.

The relationship between India and Pakistan has been fraught with tension since they gained independence from colonial Britain in 1947.

Ukraine and its allies reject that characterisation as a grotesque falsehood, accusing Moscow of conducting an imperial-style invasion.

India sent Israeli Harop drones to multiple locations, including the two largest cities of Karachi and Lahore.

Rohit, 38, was dropped from the fifth test in Sydney earlier this year after a prolonged run drought, and announced his retirement from test cricket on Wednesday.

Ukraine’s air force reported that after the start of the Kremlin-sponsored ceasefire Russian aircraft twice launched guided bombs on the Sumy region of northern Ukraine.

There was no immediate word on the reason for the blast.

The nuclear-armed North’s ballistic missile programme is banned by United Nations Security Council resolutions, but in recent years Pyongyang has forged ahead in developing missiles of all ranges.

Officials and experts said India’s attack on its neighbour, its most significant in decades, fulfilled a long-cherished goal, but Islamabad warned that it would hit back.

News of the planned Geneva meeting, first announced by Washington late Tuesday, sent US equity index futures higher.

The strikes come after Ukraine launched drones towards Moscow for a third day, forcing most of the Russian capital’s airports to close hours before Chinese President Xi Jinping was due to arrive.

Port Sudan has been hit by days of assaults - included reported drone strikes by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) - that have torched the country's biggest fuel depots and damaged its main gateway for humanitarian aid.