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A swift, high-profile 25-minute military mission involving 24 precision strikes on terrorist sites across nine locations in Pakistan. This marked the launch of Operation Sindoor – India’s retaliation two weeks after 26 civilians were killed in Pahalgam.

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Officers from Met Police attended to ensure the protest passed peacefully

Responding to the Pahalgam terror attack, the Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor, striking nine terrorist sites across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in an operation described as “focused, calibrated, and non-escalatory”.

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British workers, already feeling the pinch from record-high taxes, are now left wondering why they're footing the bill while new arrivals from India get a pretty sweet deal under Keir Starmer’s latest trade agreement.

Other nations call for restraint while offering mediation to ease tensions.

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The missile strikes on Pakistan carried out by Indian warplanes herald another outbreak of serious conflict between the two neighbours who started fighting in the very year they won independence from Britain in 1947. In just over 50 years they fought four major regional wars – including in 1971, when…

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer has hailed the largest post-Brexit agreement yet

There have been fears raised that an all-out war could begin