French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou. | Photo Credit: AP France’s Prime Minister on Monday (March 3, 2025) tore into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling it a staggering show of “brutality” that aimed to humiliate Ukraine’s leader and bend him to the will of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The extraordinarily … Read more
(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.) It could have been a scene out of a satirical web series, but it was real. Before we decode the tense, now viral spat among US President Donald … Read more
File picture of M23 rebels entering the centre of east Congo’s second-largest city, Bukavu, and take control of the South Kivu province administrative office, on February 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Rwanda-backed M23 rebels abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals in a major city in eastern Congo, the United … Read more
An activist who is from Ukraine. joins a rally downtown to show support for his homeland in Chicago, Illinois. Supporters of Ukraine joined in the rally and marched through downtown expressing outrage following Friday’s hostile reception of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s by U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office. … Read more
Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers stand guard outside the Great Hall of the People before a press conference for the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing on March 3. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: During his visit to China in January, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri had separate meetings with … Read more
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference at Canada House in London on Sunday, March 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Canada will impose 25% tariffs on C$155 billion ($107 billion) worth of U.S. goods from Tuesday (March 4, 2025) if U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration follows through with its proposed tariffs on … Read more
SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster is seen on the launch pad, as Starship is prepared to be placed on top, at the company’s Boca Chica complex, ahead of Starship’s eighth test flight which is targeted from Starbase, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. | Photo Credit: Reuters SpaceX on Monday (March 3, 2025) called off its eighth Starship … Read more
In this file image taken form video, Grei Mendez, centre, is escorted by law enforcement personnel from a New York Police station, September 19, 2023, in New York. | Photo Credit: AP A woman who owned a New York City day care centre where a toddler died after ingesting fentanyl has been sentenced to 45 … Read more
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Hamas on Monday (March 3, 2025) with unimaginable consequences if it did not return hostages held in Gaza, while the Palestinian group accused his government of sabotaging the fragile truce there. The first phase of the ceasefire ended over the weekend but talks on its future have hit an … Read more
U.S. Senate has voted to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation’s education chief, a role that places her atop a department that President Donald Trump has vilified and vowed to dismantle. | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation’s education chief, … Read more