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Joe Biden has postponed his trip to Australia, for Quad summit, due to debt ceiling negotiations in Washington. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the leaders of Australia, the United States, India and Japan would instead meet at the G7 in Hiroshima this weekend. A bilateral programme in Sydney with Prime Minister Narendra Modi could still go ahead next week, he added.Reacting to the release of US State Department 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom, Ministry Of External Affairs Spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi said, "We are aware of the release of the U.S. State Department 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom. Regrettably, such reports continue to be based on misinformation and flawed understanding.' The US Religious Freedom Report 2022 alleged high handedness against minorities especially Muslims by various state governments in India.As Western nations move to tighten sanctions on Moscow's energy sector, EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell had earlier said that the EU should crack down on India reselling Russian oil as refined fuels including diesel into Europe. Responding to these remarks, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said "Look at EU Council regulations, Russian crude is substantially transformed in the third country and not treated as Russian anymore."Bushra Khan, the wife of Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan, was granted protective bail in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case. Al-Qadir Trust is a non-governmental welfare organization set up by Bushra and Imran Khan in 2018 when he was still in office. Government officials alleged that Khan and his wife received land worth millions of dollars as a bribe from a real estate tycoon through the charitable trust. The trust has nearly 60 acres of land worth $24.7 million and another large piece of land in Islamabad close to Khan's hilltop home.
