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New Zealand's pre-election 2026 Budget skips giveaways and bets on fiscal discipline instead — moving the surplus target a full year forward to 2028-29. With NZ$5.8bn for health and NZ$450m set aside…
China's deputy ambassador called the Trump-Xi Beijing summit 'historic and successful' — and the details back up the claim to a…
On the sidelines of the EU's informal Foreign Ministers' meeting in Nicosia, EAM Jaishankar held back-to-back talks with Ukraine,…
A chemical tank holding 900,000 gallons of corrosive 'white liquor' imploded at a Nippon Dynawave paper mill in Longview,…
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal's Toronto visit is the most substantive India-Canada ministerial engagement since the 2023…
A formal Senate minority report has accused President Trump of taking billion-dollar-connected CEOs — including Elon Musk, Jensen…
Mary Millben, a prominent India-US relations advocate, has gone on record saying Trump's second-term advisors got India wrong —…
Fresh US strikes inside Iran — and intercepted Iranian drones — expose just how fragile the so-called ceasefire really is. With…
The White House posted a lone eyes emoji and a video link on X on 28 May 2026, with no accompanying text. The teaser-style post…
