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India
Ajit Doval and Wang Yi used their 25th special-representatives meeting to link wider normalization with peace along the disputed frontier and renewed cross-border exchanges.
Asia
The 2027 plan would lift military spending by 18% and above 3% of GDP, but it must pass an opposition-controlled legislature after a prolonged budget delay.
India
A government order caps the nationwide daily LPG target at 63,810 metric tons and requires storage and transport capacity as India builds buffers against disrupted Middle East imports.
Middle East
Adm. Brad Cooper visited the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln as the Iran war, deadly strikes in Lebanon, Gaza diplomacy and an Iran-Qatar dispute sustained pressure across the region.
India
A proposal to raise the CCEA review line from ₹50 billion to ₹150 billion would give ministries greater authority over large FDI applications, while a parallel review seeks to prevent duplicate approvals for indirect investment.
China
Beijing opened a national-security trade investigation, tightened controls on drone exports, restricted seven US entities and suspended American certification inspections after actions by the FCC and Homeland Security.
Africa
The tiered salary structure will take effect on September 1 and add 264 billion naira to the annual armed-forces wage bill as Abuja confronts insurgency, banditry and kidnapping.
Middle East
Abbas Araghchi spoke twice in 24 hours with Asim Munir and Prince Faisal bin Farhan as regional governments pressed political solutions following a US pause in planned strikes and amid preparations for another Washington-Tehran negotiating round.
China
More than 80 papers and patents show defense-linked researchers using model distillation to transfer capabilities from OpenAI and Anthropic systems into smaller domestic tools that can operate inside military networks and on edge devices.
Africa
Ghana, Zimbabwe and Zambia rejected or delayed proposed agreements, while Kenyan litigation exposed a broader dispute over long-term access to health records, regulatory control and the use of aid in critical-minerals bargaining.
Oceania
Taipei halted an estimated 800 million dollars in open-market gas buying after Port Moresby moved to close its representative office, but preserved a long-term contract for 1.2 million tonnes a year through 2030.
India
The Finance Ministry tied investment and strategic autonomy to quicker implementation of domestic reforms while warning that sustained high oil prices and a possible El Niño could pressure inflation, public finances and growth.
