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The leaders of Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Lucia have met with a European Union commissioner to discuss the EU's planned phase-out of citizenship-by-investment programmes, a key source of revenue for several Eastern Caribbean states. The talks address how the phase-out would be implemented and what it would mean for the two island economies that rely heavily on investor immigration income.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the CBI to proceed with an investigation into corruption allegations involving Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and submit its report within two months. BJP leader Sambit Patra welcomed the order, saying the court had confirmed what the BJP has long claimed, while Aam Aadmi Party supporters are likely to contest the framing of the allegations.

The Central Bureau of Investigation is preparing to file its final charge sheet within a week in the NEET-UG paper leak case tied to the 2026 medical entrance exam. The leak of the high-stakes test has raised fresh concerns about exam security in India and accountability for those behind the breach.

Researchers have assembled the genome and annotated the genes of the Israeli strain of Babesia ovis, a tick-borne parasite affecting sheep, using PacBio HiFi long-read sequencing. Published in Nature's portfolio of scientific data papers, the work provides a high-quality reference genome intended to support future research on the parasite's biology, drug targets and vaccine development. Details of methods and datasets have been made openly available to other researchers.