🇮🇳| EAM Dr Jaishankar speaks at ‘The Human Cost of Terrorism’ at UN HQ

▪️India's Pahalgam terror attack response showed 'Zero tolerance to terrorism'
▪️'State sponsership to terrorism must be exposed'
▪️'Terrorism is one of the gravest threats to humanity'

🇮🇷 Tehran on Alert: Reports of Explosions and Air-Defense Activity

Residents in Tehran, 🇮🇷 Iran’s capital, reported loud explosions and visible air-defense activity lighting up the night sky. The source of the activity remains unclear, but the Iranian military has not issued any official statement so far.

🇮🇳🇺🇸| 'Finalizing agreements, you will hear from the President & his trade team very soon on India ', says White House spox on India, US trade deal

Adds, 'India remains a very strategic ally in the Asia Pacific & the President has a very good relationship with PM Modi..'

🇨🇵| France's Macron calls tariffs imposed by powerful countries a form of 'blackmail'

▪️French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that tariffs levied by powerful countries were often a form of "blackmail" rather than instruments to rebalance trade.

🇬🇧🇵🇱| BBC News accuses Telegram channels of fermenting right-wing, anti-Ukrainian attitudes in Poland.

🇺🇸🇮🇱| The US Govt. has approved a $510 million arms sale to Israel, which includes 3,845 JDAM kits for 'BLU-109' bunker buster bombs and 3,280 JDAM kits for 'MK-82' bombs.

🇰🇿| Kazakhstan bans face coverings in public places

▪️Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a law on Monday prohibiting individuals from wearing clothing in public places that covers their faces, joining a trend in several Central Asian countries to restrict forms of Islamic dress.

🇺🇸🇮🇱| President Trump: 'Israel is the greatest nation, possibly, of all time, with notable exception of maybe the United States, depending on how you look at it'

🇪🇺| NATO tests unmanned boats with sea-launchable copters

▪️As part of the Task Force X test mission, NATO is trialing unmanned surface vessels (USVs) equipped with rotorcraft that can be dropped into the sea and then take off directly from the water. This novel system expands maritime drone versatility, enabling covert launch, distributed ISR, and potential strike roles from naval platforms without exposing manned assets.