Union Pacific

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met European Union counterparts in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly's high-level week. He said talks covered India-EU cooperation and multilateral issues, including developments in the Gulf, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific. The meeting comes as India and the EU continue deepening strategic and trade ties amid global tensions.

The European Union has told small island nations that sell citizenship through investment schemes, often called golden passports, to end the practice by 2028 or face consequences such as visa-free travel restrictions. The bloc argues such programmes pose security and money-laundering risks by allowing outsiders to obtain passports with little scrutiny. Caribbean and Pacific states that rely on the schemes for revenue are expected to resist or seek negotiations.

The European Union and Singapore have held talks on strengthening the security of critical maritime and underwater infrastructure. The discussion, confirmed by the European External Action Service, reflects growing international attention to protecting subsea cables, ports and other assets vital to trade and communications. Both sides are key maritime hubs, and cooperation on safeguarding these networks is becoming an increasingly prominent part of EU outreach to Indo-Pacific partners.

Union Pacific has failed in its effort to overturn a privacy ruling involving truck drivers. A court declined to disturb the earlier decision, meaning the privacy protections recognized for the drivers will stand. The railroad company had sought to upend the ruling but did not succeed, leaving the underlying judgment intact.