A flare goes up in air over the hill near main town of Poonch district, on May 7, 2025. — AFP Long-running tensions between nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India soared Wednesday after New Delhi
The combined image shows Donald Trump and Antonio Guterres. — Reuters/File India attacks Pakistani cities of Punjab, Azad Kashmir. Trump terms rising tension between nations “shame”. UNSG “very concerned” about Indian strikes on Pakistan.
President gives statementPresident Donald Trump delivers a statement at the White House. — Screengrab via Reuters at the White House US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he hoped clashes between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia..— Reuters/File Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that water from India that once flowed across borders
Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer and other cardinals walk to enter as they leave after visiting the tomb of the late Pope Francis at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major (Santa Maria Maggiore), in Rome,
Germany’s Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz reacts as he is elected chancellor by parliament in second round of voting in the German lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany May 6, 2025. — Reuters
A view of Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, on the Chenab river which flows from Indian occupied Kashmir into Pakistan, at Chanderkote in IIOJK region May 6, 2025. — Reuters
The United Nations Security Council held closed consultations today under the agenda item “The India-Pakistan Question”. The meeting was held to discuss the deteriorating regional security environment, heightened tensions between India and Pakistan and
US Border Patrol agents gather and sort migrants who overnight gathered between the primary and secondary border walls that separate Mexico and the United States in San Diego, California, US, June 6, 2024. —
Two women from a destitute area drawing water from a hand pump. — United Nations website UNITED NATIONS: Humanity recorded an unexpected and “unsettling” slowdown in development in 2024 as the global post-pandemic recovery