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Gaza: After 58,000 deaths, Trump says Israel ready for a 60-day ceasefire

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit next week, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Israel has agreed to finalise 60-day Gaza ceasefire, and also urged terror outfit Hamas to accept the deal. The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, which has claimed nearly 58,000 lives, started […]

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Roving Periscope: “A billion people back Musk,” China says as it fishes in US troubled waters!

July 2, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Chinese are smiling ear-to-ear. “A billion people are backing you,” their social media users boasted, as Beijing was transfixed as US President Donald Trump’s public spat with his one-time ‘inseparable’ backer, Elon Musk, intensified. Since nothing unofficial can be made public in China, even on social media, this popular […]

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Syria: Trump lifts US sanctions, legitimizes ‘terrorists’ govt

July 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Chasing his dream to become a Nobel Peace Laureate, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ending US sanctions on Syria, following through on his promise to do so. With this, Washington has ‘legitimized’ the interim government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, former anti-Iran Sunni terrorist whom Trump met […]

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Roving Periscope: In S-2, Trump threatens, Musk dares; more fireworks likely

July 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Frenemies, they are irrepressible, and can bounce back when their foes believe they are finished. They found each other in 2024 when Donald Trump campaigned for a second term in the White House, and Elon Musk shifted allegiance from the Democrats to the Republicans and promptly donated USD 288 million […]

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Health: Trump’s USAID cuts may cause 14 million more deaths by 2030

July 1, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President Donald Trump’s controversial move to cut most of the US’ funding towards foreign humanitarian aid through the USAID could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal. A third of those at risk of premature deaths were children, researchers […]

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Roving Periscope: China, Pak plot a new SAARC-like outfit, exclude India

June 30, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It was expected for a long time. When China started debt-trapping and subtly ‘colonizing’ Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, India became aware that the Dragon was plotting to sabotage the very spirit—regional cooperation—in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and replace it with an outfit packed with […]

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Operation Sindoor II: After beseeching for ‘ceasefire,’ Pak rebuilding terror assets

June 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Weeks after beseeching for a ‘ceasefire’ with India, and learning no lesson from Operation Sindoor, Islamabad has started rebuilding terror camps and launchpads destroyed in mainland Pakistan as well as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in the May 7 missile strikes, the media reported on Saturday. The Pakistan Army, its ISI wing, […]

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Pakistan: Suicide bomber kills 13 soldiers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

June 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: At least 13 Pakistan Army soldiers were killed and 29 others, including civilians, were wounded in a suicide attack on a military convoy in North Waziristan in Pakistan on Saturday, the media reported. The condition of the four injured soldiers is critical. A suicide attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban […]

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Iran: US proposes $30 bn for ‘peaceful’ n-use—the Arabs to foot the bill!

June 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Days after bombing its three key nuclear facilities, the US is considering helping Iran access USD 30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear programme, in what is a surprising twist in the diplomatic ties between the two nations, CNN reported on Friday. The US struck three Iranian nuclear sites last weekend after […]

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Trade and tariff: ‘Very big deal soon, to open up India,’ says Trump

June 27, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After several blow hot and blow cold statements in the last few months, US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that America is going to have a “very big” trade deal with India, hinting at significant progress in the negotiation process of a long-awaited bilateral trade agreement between the two […]