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Friday, August 15, 2025
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Topic: Syria

Islamic State caliphate decimated, claims US president Donald Trump

Speaking to the Ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, Trump said that US and its partners have retaken more than 20,000 square miles of land captured by the ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Amid trade war with US, China’s growth records slowest rate since 1990

Turkey President Erdogan calls US counterpart Trump over Syria, and protests in Greece over Macedonia name change.

Party donations, Modi, Syrian war & climate change: #10YearChallenge gets politically snarky

For the year’s first social media challenge, people swapped fat-to-fit selfies for a cause, some humour and political commentary.

China sentences a Canadian to death for drug trafficking, Trudeau calls verdict arbitrary  

Theresa May urges parliamentarians to give the Brexit deal ‘a second look’ and House Republicans unseat leader from committees over white supremacy remark.

White House prepares for border wall as Donald Trump threatens national emergency

Japan PM Shinzo Abe speaks in support of Theresa May and Mike Pompeo speaks in Cairo about Trump’s vision for Middle East.

US, China officials meet in Beijing for sixth-round negotiations to end trade war

US NSA John Bolton says troops can’t be withdrawn from Syria, and Saudi Arabia puts into effect new law to alert women of divorce.

Santa faces delay at Gatwick, while Congress has a Christmas gift for America

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

Nikki Haley is a hard act to follow at the UN

Nikki Haley leaves with her reputation not just intact but burnished. The same cannot be said of Trump’s other departed top-level appointees.

Unlike Trump, Nikki Haley wasn’t a transactionalist but an exceptionalist

There were moments when Haley’s foreign policy differed with Trump’s and even UN’s philosophy. She did not think all countries are equal.

Why Ruskin Bond never wrote about Indian politicians

In this excerpt from his book 'Beauty of All My Days', Bond recalls memories of him having seen and heard Nehru as well as his conversations with Morarji Desai, Acharya Kripalani. 

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Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

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.