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Exclusive: In Macron's Return To India, Defence, AI And People At Core Of Familiar Partnership
Feb 13, 2026 - World 
French President Emmanuel Macron begins his three-day visit to India on February 17 with a schedule that mixes remembrance, business, technology and geopolitics, an itinerary designed to underline how far the India-France relationship travelled.
US lawmakers ask Mandelson to testify to Congress over Epstein relationship
Feb 13, 2026 - World 
Letter from committee on oversight says it is clear the former ambassador ‘holds critical information’Peter Mandelson has been asked to testify to the US Congress over his relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.Robert Garcia, ranking member of the committee on oversight and government reform, and congressman Suhas Subramanyam have written to Mandelson requesting he be questioned as part of the investigation into Epstein. Continue reading...
US ‘not powerful enough to go it alone’, Merz tells Munich conference
Feb 13, 2026 - World 
German chancellor rebuts idea of American unilateralism and says ‘democracies have partners and allies’The US acting alone has reached the limits of its power and may already have lost its role as global leader, Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, warned Donald Trump at the opening of the Munich Security Conference.Merz also disclosed he had held initial talks with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, over the possibility of joining France’s nuclear umbrella, underlining his call for Europe to develop a stronger self-standing security strategy. Continue reading...
Imran Khan To Be Shifted To New Jail With Medical Facilities: Pak Minister
Feb 13, 2026 - World 
Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told the media on Friday that the former prime minister of the country, Imran Khan, will be transferred to the new Islamabad jail once the facility is fully constructed within the next two months.
AOC accuses Trump of trying to usher in ‘age of authoritarianism’ at Munich conference
Feb 13, 2026 - World 
Congressperson says US president and Marco Rubio are tearing apart transatlantic allianceAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Donald Trump of tearing apart the transatlantic alliance with Europe and of seeking to introduce an “age of authoritarianism”, as she condemned his administration’s foreign policy in front of its allies’ top policymakers at the Munich Security Conference.Speaking at a panel on populism on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez outlined what she called an “alternative vision” for a leftwing US foreign policy, challenging the Trump administration’s shift to the right in front an audience of US allies who have grown increasingly wary of the US’s increasingly nationalist – and militaristic – global posture. Continue reading...