India has consistently refused third party mediation in its dealings with Pakistan, and the US has encountered another refusal as late as July, Pakistan foreign minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar has told news channel Al Jazeera.

A judge dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state’s case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but he kept the state’s second-degree murder charges against him.

Inside the high-tech Tejas fighter jet assembly hangar of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), rows of India’s indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) stand ready – airframes complete, avionics tested, and missiles primed.