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Sunday, August 10, 2025
TopicMarco Rubio

Topic: Marco Rubio

Mike Waltz shunted out, Rubio new interim NSA as Trump overhauls administration

Waltz was expected to visit India in May, but the trip remained in limbo given the challenges he faced from Signal-gate to the ire of Far-Right.

Tale of two readouts: Rubio tells Pakistan PM Sharif to cooperate with India on Pahalgam probe

Trump admin has made it clear responsibility for Pahalgam lies with Pakistan. After Pulwama attack, US had not asked Islamabad to cooperate or condemn despite acknowledging JeM claimed responsibility.

US dials Jaishankar & Shehbaz Sharif, calls for de-escalation. ISI chief named Pakistan NSA

EAM Jaishankar says he discussed the Pahalgam attack with US Secretary of State Rubio, and ‘its perpetrators, backers and planners must be brought to justice’.

Indian students at Harvard protest Pakistani delegates’ visit post Pahalgam, ask Rubio to revoke visas

In a letter, signed by Harvard Kennedy School students Surabhi Tomar & Abhishek Chaudhari on behalf of concerned students, the terror attack was labelled a ‘faith-based massacre’.

‘Ukraine war terrible, but not ours’—Marco Rubio hints US may abandon peace efforts if no progress

Achieving peace in three-year war is key foreign policy promise of President Trump, and US Secretary of State serves ultimatum to see progress in talks between Moscow and Kyiv.

‘Race-baiting Trump hater’, US expels South Africa’s ambassador Ebrahim Rasool

US Secy of State Marco Rubio shared a Breitbart article quoting the envoy saying Trump leads a white supremacist movement. Rasool must leave by 21 March, state dept. spokesperson said.

Midnight’s Commissioners & Marco—’Rubio!’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Ukraine, Europe will be part of ‘real’ peace talks to end Moscow’s war, says US Secretary of State Rubio

Earlier on Sunday, US officials handed European officials a questionnaire asking how many troops they could contribute to enforcing a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia.

Echoing Trump & Musk’s stance, Marco Rubio skips South Africa G20 meet over ‘racist’ land law

Criticised by Trump, Musk and now Rubio, post-apartheid law allows expropriation of land under very narrow circumstances in a country where White minority owns lion’s share of farmland.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.