ISLAMABAD: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s high-profile bid to court major world powers has stumbled, with his overtures to Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald

The collapse of the prime minister’s high-stakes efforts to transform ties with the world’s two superpowers has exposed the limits of India’s leverage.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the leaders of China, India and three ex-Soviet states on Friday in a flurry of calls to brief them on his contacts with the United States about the war in Ukraine.