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Canadian PM Mark Carney begins his India visit focused on trade negotiations, investment, energy cooperation and rebuilding diplomatic trust after years of strained relations.

Indian markets opened sharply lower as escalating US-Iran tensions rattled global equities and pushed investors toward safe-haven assets like gold and silver.

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Move comes months after President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on Indian goods in a bid to pressure Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to abandon energy purchases from Russia

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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said "someone from within" the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the US-Israel campaign is finished.
In an exchange in the Oval Office, Trump said Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's toppled Shah, is not someone that his administration has considered in depth to take over.
"He looks like a very nice person, but it would seem to me that somebody that's there that's currently popular, if there's such a person... we have people like that," Trump said.
He noted that "some people like" Pahlavi but that he was not someone the administration had thought about too much as Iran's next ruler.
As far as possible leaders inside Iran, "the people we had in mind are dead," Trump said.
The president told reporters at the White House that in addition to that group of people that he says the US had been eying for leadership, "We have another group. They may be dead also."
Trump said there is a "third wave" coming in but "we don't kn

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Israel said it launched airstrikes against Iranian missile launchers and a nuclear research site Tuesday, and Iran struck back against Israel and across the Gulf region, targeting US embassies and disrupting energy supplies and travel.
Four days into a war that President Donald Trump suggested would last several weeks or perhaps longer, nearly 800 people have been killed in Iran, including some Trump said he had considered as possible future leaders of the country.
Explosions rang out on Tuesday in Tehran and in Lebanon, where Israel said it retaliated against Hezbollah militants. The American embassy in Saudi Arabia and the US consulate in the United Arab Emirates came under drone attacks. Iran has fired dozens of ballistic missiles at Israel, though most of the incoming fire has been intercepted. Eleven people in Israel have been killed since the conflict began.
The spiralling nature of the war raised questions about when and how it would end.
The administration has offered vario

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Sri Lanka on Thursday allowed a second Iranian ship to dock at the eastern port of Trincomalee and evacuated all 208 personnel on board, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said, a day after another Iranian frigate was sunk near the island nation.
In a televised address, Dissanayake said the vessel, IRINS Bushehr, had sought permission to enter Sri Lankan waters, citing an engine failure.
"We wanted to remain neutral while dealing with a humanitarian response," he said, adding that Sri Lanka's role was limited to responding to a request from one party involved in the conflict.
"No one deserves to die. Every life is precious," the President said.
He also criticised opposition parties for attempting to politicise the situation.
"We won't succumb to pressure. We will maintain our neutrality," Dissanayake said.
According to the President, the ship had 208 personnel on board, comprising 53 officers, 84 cadets, 48 senior sailors and 23 seamen, all of whom were evacuated after the ship w

MRF has signed a non-binding MoU with the Tamil Nadu government to set up a greenfield tyre manufacturing unit in Sivaganga with an investment of Rs 5,300 crore over 12 years

(From left) MRF VC Arun Mammen, Tamil Nadu Deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin, MRF Chairman KM Mammen and Chief Minister MK Stalin during the signing of an MoU  between the company and the state government on Wednesday | Photo: PTI

Trump said he had directed the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to provide political risk insurance and guarantees to ensure the financial security of all maritime trade

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