India's US exports jump despite 50% tariffs as trade tensions ease
India's goods exports to the US rose for the first time in five months in October, jumping 14.5% from September, even as Donald Trump's steep tariffs remain in place, BBC reported.
Exports to India's largest foreign market had dropped sharply last month after 50% US tariffs on India - including a 25% penalty for buying Russian oil - kicked in on 27 August.
The improved data came as Indian state-run oil firms agreed to import more annual liquified petroleum gas (LPG) from the US and Trump exempted many farm goods from reciprocal tariffs that could benefit India, according to BBC.
Lebanon says Israeli strike killed 13 people near Palestinian refugee camp
At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli strike near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, the country's health ministry says, BBC reported.
The Israeli military said it had targeted members of the Palestinian armed group Hamas "operating in a training compound... in the Ein el-Hilweh area".
It said the location was used by Hamas to plan and carry out attacks against Israel, which Hamas rejected as "fabrication and lies".
Two Ukrainians working for Russia behind rail sabotage, Polish PM says
Two Ukrainian citizens who long worked for Russian intelligence have been identified as the suspects behind two acts of sabotage on Poland's rail network, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, BBC reported.
One suspect had already been convicted in absentia of acts of sabotage in Ukraine, Tusk told parliament.
On Monday, he visited the scene of an explosion near Mika, south-east of Warsaw, which damaged the railway line leading to the Ukrainian border at the weekend, and called it an "unprecedented act of sabotage".
China issues travel warning for Japan over threats to intervene in Taiwan
China has urged its citizens to avoid travelling to Japan, a popular destination for Chinese tourists, as a diplomatic row festers over threats by new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the possibility of deploying forces in the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan, Aljazeera reported.
The Japanese government raised its objections on Saturday to Beijing’s travel advisory, lodging a formal protest. Top spokesperson, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara, urged China to take “appropriate measures”, Japan’s Kyodo News Service reported.
Kihara told reporters that it is precisely because of the differences between the two governments that multilayered communication is essential, a Kyodo report said, according to Aljazeera.
