Qatar quietly asked Hamas leaders to leave Doha last month amid frustration with the terror group’s handling of the hostage negotiations, two government officials told The Times of Israel this week. (1/15)
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Yes. Absolutely.

Delhi recorded the hottest day of the year so far, with the mercury soaring to 47.4 degrees Celsius in the Najafgarh area. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Najafgarh was the hottest place in the country on Friday.

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#IMD

I do like these influencer videos, especially when they show a completely empty airport in a city of 16m people.

Brilliant map, this one. linkedin.com/posts/jacob-ma…

India needs new set of border agreements with China, existing ones favour the People’s Liberation Army: Arunachal governor Lt-General K T Parnaik (retd), delivering the keynote address at the Lt-Gen P S Bhagat memorial lecture. #IndiaChinaStandOff

Fixed-term (2 years) position for a lecturer in History (specialised in East Asian history) at Monash University, Melbourne

An Australian is among the wounded.

This will be a complex consular case. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Australia too.

Deutsche Welle, not mincing words.

All good advice, but I’d add: cite scholars based in India. Too often, even in the literature supposedly decolonising this or that, the citations go to overseas-based scholars.

“Francis sees himself as holding the Chinese Church together,“ Francis X. Rocca writes. “He might be helping to stifle it in the process.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This could so easily have been a 'In a move that will anger China...' headline, but happily... abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1…

tired: we need to investigate the quincy institute for foreign influence in our politics

wired: the quincy institute is funded by big streisand

A very good and timely piece.

A blast from the past. Jaishankar's first speech as India's ambassador to the US at Carnegie, January 2014. carnegieendowment.org/events/2014/01…

Australia has a rich vocabulary to describe its politics, but I really think we should import “milquetoast”. It neatly captures the contemporary chronic lack of oomph.