23 foreign tourists have fallen victim to the flooding in northern India reported the police in the states of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. Two of them were citizens of France, two from Italy, 1 from Spain and the rest from Nepal. According to recent reports, the death toll from the disaster in the region stands at 177.

Search teams struggle in hunt for survivors after floods devastate remote region.

President Medvedev has offered expressions of sympathy and support to the top leaders in India in connection with the loss of life and destruction from flash floods and landslides in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The known casualties are at some 360, including about 60 dead. The disaster followed days of torrential rainfall.

Seven people reportedly killed by security forces in Indian-controlled region.

Latest deaths bring to 31 the number of people killed in Indian-administered region.

Latest casualties mark deadliest 48 hours in the Muslim-majority territory since June 11.

Troops kill two demonstrators and wound 12 others protesting against Indian rule.

David Cameron in discussions with Barack Obama in Washington last week.

Cameron described Britain as America’s ‘junior partner’. Photograph: Getty Images

If you’re determined to tell it how it is, it’s important to know it how it is – and on the evidence of his travels in foreign parts this week, it is uncertain whether David Cameron really does. Regarding Turkey and Europe, Israel and Gaza, and India and Pakistan, the inexperienced British prime minister’s blunt interventions left a trail of overseas outrage as well as surprised approbation. Fans admired his plain talking. Critics said he plainly doesn’t know what he’s talking about – and risked damaging Britain’s interests.

Cameron stood his ground in Delhi, vowing always to speak his mind frankly. In fact, his truth telling has been highly selective. Turkey’s EU membership, for example, could advance more swiftly if it fulfilled prior undertakings on Cyprus. He barely mentioned that – or discrimination against minority Kurds. Pakistan’s behaviour might be less paranoid and duplicitous if India were less threatening. In deference to Delhi’s hypersensitivity, Cameron eschewed all mention of Kashmir – an incendiary issue overdue for open, international discussion, as proposed long ago by Robin Cook.

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