In a sharply worded rejection that carried more than routine diplomatic irritation, India told the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Monday that it had no right to comment on Jammu and Kashmir, and accused the body of being badly used by Pakistan to push what New Delhi called a “bigoted agenda.” The trigger was a resolution on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir adopted at the 52nd Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers, held in Baghdad, Iraq, during the middle of October. India’s Ministry of External Affairs, which usually chooses its language carefully, let its frustration show. It…

Some political leaders are known for their policies; others for their hair, their gestures, their scandals. Giorgia Meloni is known for her voice before she has even said anything. It is hoarse, raspy from smoking, a voice that sounds like it has been dragged through decades of rallies and late-night negotiations, a voice that still carries the dust of a Roman afternoon. It can deliver a hypnotic staccato of facts, each one landing like a stamp on a passport, before soaring into sharp recriminations that make an opponent feel not just defeated but dismantled. Then, without warning, it can turn…