India and Russia are holding discussions on a free trade deal to boost their growing economic ties, the countries’ foreign ministers announced on Monday at a business dialog meeting in New Delhi. According to Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, New Delhi is in “advance agreement” on a trade deal, which Russian Trade and…

Satellite imagery has shown construction work next to the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepares to launch a ground offensive The Egyptian government has reportedly started work on a wall near the country’s border with Gaza amid fears that a planned ground offensive by the Israeli military will push war refugees out of the Palestinian enclave.

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