Following are the top foreign stories at 2030 hours

    
     FGN42 UN-MUTTAQI-INDIA
* Acting Afghan FM Muttaqi to visit India as UNSC sanctions committee approves travel ban exemption
     United Nations: Afghanistan's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi will travel to India next week after the UN Security Council’s Taliban Sanctions Committee approved an exemption to the travel ban imposed on the Taliban leader. *
    
     FGN43 GANDHI-LD WORLD
* Indian missions worldwide celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's 156th birth anniversary
     Moscow/Beijing: Indian missions in Russia, China, Pakistan and several other countries on Thursday celebrated Mahatma Gandhi's 156th birth anniversary by garlanding his statues and highlighting the enduring relevance of his universal message of peace and non-violence. *

     FGN41 UK-2NDLD SYNAGOGUE
* 2 killed, suspect shot dead in terrorist attack at Manchester synagogue on Jewish holy day
     London: Two people have been killed and a suspect has been shot dead by police officers in a stabbing and car attack declared a “terrorist incident” at a synagogue in Manchester on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur on Thursday. *

     FGN40 PAK-POK-LD PROTEST
* Pak PM expresses 'deep concern' over situation in PoK as violent protests claim 9 lives
    Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Thursday expressed "deep concern" over the deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, where at least nine people have been killed during the ongoing protests. *
    
     FGN36 US-TRUMP-GAZA-LEADERS
* White House highlights 'global support', including from PM Modi, for Trump's Gaza peace plan
     New York/Washington: The White House has highlighted the "global support”, including from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for President Donald Trump's “visionary” plan for peace in war-battered Gaza. *

     FGN19 SINGAPORE-LD ZUBEEN
* Singer Zubeen Garg died in Singapore while swimming, not during scuba diving: report
     Singapore: Singer-musician Zubeen Garg died due to drowning while swimming off a Singapore island and not while scuba diving as reported earlier, media reports said Thursday. *
    
     FGN20 UK-SOUZA-AUCTION
* Francis Newton Souza’s landscape 'Houses of Hampstead' sets new auction record in UK
     London: Goan artist Francis Newton Souza has set a new art world auction record with his landscape ‘Houses in Hampstead’ fetching over USD 7.5 million at a Sotheby’s auction in London, nearly seven times its guide price. *
    
     FGN26 PAK-TERRORISM-REPORT
* 46% surge in violence in Pakistan in Q3 this year, says a think tank report
     Islamabad: Pakistan continues to reel under terrorism with overall violence surging by 46 per cent in the third quarter of 2025 with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province continuing to be the worst hit region, a media report said Thursday. *

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