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India's Modi likely to find comfort in Trump's return and a shared worldview

Nov. 13, 2024 23:06 PM EST

NEW DELHI (AP) — Donald Trump’s return to the White House has made many countries anxious and recalculating where they stand with the U.S., but India appears to be welcoming the change that may embolden nationalist leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “I know today a lot...

Trump's second term could realign US diplomacy toward authoritarian leaders

Nov. 07, 2024 00:22 AM EST

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's fiery, right-wing leader says Donald Trump’s victory will help his own battle against immigration and multiculturalism and restore traditional family values. In Argentina, a president who once bear-hugged Trump at a political conference in...

Kashmir legislature passes resolution asking India to restore its partial autonomy

Nov. 06, 2024 06:21 AM EST

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian-controlled Kashmir ’s regional legislature passed a resolution on Wednesday demanding the federal government restore the disputed region’s semi-autonomy that was scrapped by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration in 2019. The assembly...

Indians celebrate Diwali by lighting a record number of clay lamps

Oct. 31, 2024 06:24 AM EDT

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Millions of Indians began celebrating the annual Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, by symbolically lighting a record 2.51 million clay oil lamps at dusk on Wednesday on the banks of the river Saryu in a northern Indian city they believe to be the birthplace of the deity Lord...

The leaders of India and Spain launch India's first private military aircraft plant

Oct. 28, 2024 07:18 AM EDT

VADODARA, India (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez inaugurated India's first private military aircraft plant on Monday, boosting New Delhi's ambitions of growing local manufacturing in its defense and aerospace industries. Sanchez...

India and Germany look to bolster ties as Modi and Scholz hold talks in New Delhi

Oct. 25, 2024 06:17 AM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday held wide-ranging discussions to bolster strategic ties between the two countries as Berlin looks to strengthen its relationship with New Delhi at a time when the West is seeking to counter China's...

Financial cooperation and BRICS expansion are on the table as Putin hosts Global South leaders

Oct. 24, 2024 04:00 AM EDT

KAZAN, Russia (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hosted China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders at a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, part of the Kremlin's efforts to challenge Western global clout. Putin said the...

India's Modi and Chinese President Xi meet days after a border accord between the countries

Oct. 23, 2024 10:09 AM EDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Wednesday on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia, in their first bilateral meeting in five years. The meeting came days after the two giant neighbors announced a border accord...

Putin hosts Global South leaders at BRICS summit meant to counterbalance Western clout

Oct. 22, 2024 17:05 PM EDT

KAZAN, Russia (AP) — China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders arrived Tuesday in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies that the Kremlin hopes to turn into a rallying point for defying Western influence in global affairs. ...

Putin hosts a summit to show the West it can't keep Russia off the global stage

Oct. 22, 2024 01:59 AM EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin will be meeting this week with China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian, defying predictions that the war in Ukraine and an international arrest warrant would turn Putin into a pariah. ...