Morning news brief: US underlines India's importance, EU backtracks on export control, and more
Morning news brief
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoker with India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. Blinken called India a pre-eminent partner in the Indo-Pacific. Meanwhile, European Union has backtracked from its earlier stance of restricting COVID vaccine exporft to Northern Ireland. Read this and more in our morning news brief.
It was Blinken's first telephonic conversation with Jaishankar after he assumed the charge of the top American diplomat early this week
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