External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has stepped up India’s diplomatic outreach at the United Nations General Assembly, holding a series of high-level meetings focused on trade, technology, climate action, energy, defence, connectivity and wider geopolitical challenges. Jaishankar’s engagements with European partners including the Netherlands, Finland and Slovenia put India-EU cooperation, the proposed India-EU FTA, manufacturing, energy and defence ties in focus. Discussions also covered the Ukraine conflict, technological challenges and commitments linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s international engagements.

The US military has carried out another lethal strike against a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean, killing four people, according to US Southern Command. The US military said intelligence had identified the vessel as being actively involved in narcotrafficking and described those killed as “narco-terrorists.” The latest operation is part of the Trump administration’s wider campaign against suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.