Tensions rise as India launches airstrikes on Pakistan

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Indian jets launch airstrikes on nine sites inside Pakistan in retaliation for a militant group's attack on mostly Indian tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir two weeks ago. Also, ongoing hunting and the growing effects of climate change are contributing to the dropping numbers of manatees in the Amazon region but local efforts are underway to bring them back. And, Syria's Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa is in France for discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron. Plus, the Men's World Snooker champion hopes to boost the sport’s popularity in China.

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0:33.6	Music conflict quickly escalating between India and Pakistan, even though war is something both say they want to avoid.
0:51.1	There is a domestic appetite in India to respond to the terrorist attack that
0:54.7	they saw on April 22nd. And likewise, there is domestic pressure in Pakistan for the state
0:59.9	to avenge the scale of the strikes that took place last night. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Today,
1:05.4	what's pushing the conflict to the brink and what's pulling it back. And a U.S. proposal to send migrants to Libya does have
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1:31.0	That's all ahead today on the world.
1:38.3	This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thanks for being with us today.
1:43.0	At about one in the morning in Pakistan, a flash erupted in the sky in one of nine sites hit by Indian airstrikes. It was captured in a cell phone video shot on the street.
1:55.4	The strikes came in retaliation for a militant attack in Kashmir two weeks ago that killed 26 people, mostly Indian nationals.
2:04.3	India blamed Pakistan for the attack, reviving a decades-long rivalry over a disputed region of Kashmir and reigniting military conflict.
2:14.7	Shashank Joshi is the defense editor for the economist and visiting scholar at King's
2:19.6	College War Studies Department. He's been following all of this closely. He started our conversation
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