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Prabowo-Putin meet, the Golan Heights airstrike & other global news you may have missed

ThePrint’s round-up of world news and topical issues over the past week.

Pulitzer winner, assassin & a teen among the largest Russia-West prisoner swap in post-Soviet era

24 prisoners were exchanged in Ankara, 16 released by Russia and 8 by US and allies. Among them were 3 Americans, including Wall Street Journal scribe Evan Gershkovich.

US journalist Gershkovich, former US Marine Whelan released in big east-west prison swap, says Turkey

Turkish intelligence said it was coordinating a prisoner exchange between Russia and Belarus on one side and Western countries including US and Germany on the other.

Russian Duma proposes punishment for troops using smartphones in warzones like Ukraine

Raising concerns over tracking of locations via photographs, geolocation, and mobile signals, the lawmakers introduced a bill to take disciplinary action against the mobile usage.

Russian forces conduct second mobile nuclear missile launcher drills this month

The drills are taking place less than two months after Russia held tactical nuclear weapons deployment exercises alongside ally Belarus.

India’s multi-alignment realpolitik is no ‘strategic foolishness’. Consider economic realities

Economic realities make it difficult for nations to jump on bandwagons based on arbitrary values, or, in this case, geopolitical rivalries.

Russia sentences Gershkovich to 16 yrs. Wall Street Journal calls it ‘disgraceful sham conviction’

Gershkovich went on trial last month in the city of Yekaterinburg. He was the first U.S. journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War.

India to finally get its new stealth frigate ‘Tushil’, crew of about 200 carrying out acceptance trials

India in 2016 inked inter-governmental agreement with Russia for 4 frigates, a follow-on of Talwar-class vessels. Contract was signed in 2018. The 2nd could be delivered in 2025.

India lets Ukraine know that Zelenskyy’s comment on Modi was ‘unfounded’

Ukraine president had on 'X' criticised Modi’s visit to Russia last week & his hug with Putin, saying it was a 'huge disappointment & a devastating blow to peace efforts'.

Modi’s Russia trip shows India is no longer afraid of US sanctions like exclusion from SWIFT

Today, despite America's threats, India is adopting an independent foreign policy, buying oil in large quantities from Russia, and making payments in rupees.

On Camera

Congress keeps forgetting its own history. Hindu Mahasabha was inseparable part of the party

To deny such recent history and put the blame of Partition upon Hindus is proof of the vanishing historical sense of the Congress.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?