India's Rashtrapati Bhavan (President's House) has withdrawn a press release regarding Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's upcoming visit to New Delhi, just an hour after it was issued, according to a report by The Indian Express on Friday.
The UN Security Council is set to hold a second round of informal voting on Friday (August 21) to gauge member states' support for candidates seeking to become the organisation's next secretary-general.
The United States has imposed fresh sanctions on Lebanon-based Hezbollah over its alleged financial ties and close coordination with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), while again designating the group as a "Specially Designated Terrorist" organisation.
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan was returned to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi just hours after being taken to a hospital in Islamabad for medical tests.
At least 46 people, many of them children, have died after an overcrowded boat capsized in northwestern Nigeria, with 15 people still missing.
India and Japan have agreed to further strengthen their defense partnership, with a focus on maritime security, following bilateral talks between their defense ministers in New Delhi. Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi met and subsequently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding maritime security cooperation on Thursday.