Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has criticised Britain's invitation to Donald Trump for a second state visit, saying it undermined his government's effort to project a united front against the U.S. president's talk of annexing Canada.

When U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted, on May 10, that India and Pakistan had agreed to a cease-fire, the world breathed a sigh of relief. The two nuclear-armed neighbors had teetered perilously close to all-out war as they fired missiles and drone strikes at each other’s military installations and religious sites over the previous three days.

India hit Pakistan with air strikes deep into the country, killing dozens, but Pakistan claimed to have shot down multiple Indian planes. (The details of that claim remain murky.) India accused Pakistan of a drone attack near the Kashmiri line of control,

India launched military strikes against Pakistan as tensions spiraled following a deadly assault on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region.

India and Pakistan have been pushed a step closer to war after a gun massacre of tourists on April 22, their most serious confrontation in decades.

With the United States on the sidelines, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are trying to play a role as mediators.

The Kashmir 'dispute', long considered one of the most intractable geopolitical challenges in South Asia, has frequently drawn the attention of successive United States presidents. While India has consistently maintained that the issue must be resolved bilaterally with Pakistan,

India has proposed levies on some US goods in response to Washington’s duties on steel and aluminum, marking its first retaliation against President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, even as the two countries move closer to finalizing a trade deal.