The maiden meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi would “set forth a vision” to expand the U.S.-India partnership in an ambitious way, the White House has said.

The leaders of the world’s two largest countries, home to 1.6 billion people, will meet on June 26 to discuss a gamut of bilateral issues including terrorism and India’s concerns over possible changes in H-1B visa rules.

“I think you can expect the two of them to set forth a vision that will expand the U.S.-India partnership in an ambitious and worthy way of both countries’ people,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at his daily news conference.

Mr. Spicer said the two leaders were expected to set forth a “common vision” on expanding the U.S.-India partnership. He cited fighting terrorism, promoting economic growth and reforms and expanding security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region as shared priorities.

“President Trump and Prime Minister Modi will look to outline a common vision for the United States-India partnership that is worthy of their 1.6 billion citizens,” Mr. Spicer said.

Mr. Trump invited Mr. Modi to Washington after the Indian leader rang him in January to congratulate the new President on his inauguration.

“The President and the Prime Minister have had a number of positive phone conversations, and expect to further that discussion … whether it’s economic growth and reforms, fighting terrorism, expanding our cooperation as major defence partners,” Mr. Spicer said in response to a question.

Senior members of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government rallied to her defence on Monday amid doubts over her ability to remain in power following a disastrous election result.

As the Conservative Party digested the loss of its majority in last week’s election, government officials suggested both the announcement of the Prime Minister’s agenda, known as the Queen’s Speech, and talks over Britain’s divorce from the European Union could be postponed.

Sky News reported the speech would be delayed a few days a highly unusual circumstance in a country where the monarch’s schedule is determined months in advance.

The possible delays come as critics urge cross-party discussions to reach a consensus on Britain’s exit from the EU. Ms. May’s failure to get a majority has undercut her tough Brexit strategy, which had raised fears that Britain was heading for a so-called “hard Brexit”, which could potentially see tariffs slapped on British exports to the bloc.

Expected to stay on

Ms. May moved to demonstrate that she understands the frustration of voters by moving up a meeting with the powerful 1922 Committee of the party’s backbench MPs, some of whom have called for her to step aside sooner rather than later. The meeting will now be held Monday afternoon instead of Tuesday. While some members of her party have said she will have to eventually go, Ms. May is expected to stay on as Prime Minister at least for the coming weeks.

“I don’t detect any great appetite amongst my colleagues for presenting the public with a massive additional dose of uncertainty by getting involved in a self-indulgent Conservative Party internal election campaign,” Graham Brady, the 1922 committee chairman, told BBC.

The Prime Minister’s most prominent potential rival, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, sought to quash any suggestion that she would be ousted imminently. Writing in the Sun newspaper, Mr. Johnson stressed that the Conservatives won more votes than at any time since Margaret Thatcher and are still the largest party in Parliament. “The people of Britain have had a bellyful of promises and politicking,” he wrote. “Now is the time for delivery and Theresa May is the right person to continue that vital work.”

Gove is back

Ms. May has restored former Justice Secretary Michael Gove to the Cabinet in another move designed to show she was willing to listen to critics. Mr. Gove, a long-time opponent who was dismissed when Ms. May became prime minister last year, will now serve as Environment Secretary.

Conservative leaders on Monday sought to shift the debate towards the complex Brexit talks, which are formally set to begin next week. David Davis, the Cabinet member in charge of Brexit, said talks with the EU will begin next week.

Mr. Davis suggested the government would focus on the divorce proceedings before moving on to trade. The divorce issues include the rights of EU citizens in Britain as well as U.K. citizens in the EU, how much Britain will have to pay to cover previous spending commitments and the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was detained in Moscow on Monday as he headed to a protest in Moscow, as thousands of his supporters rallied across the country.

The demonstration is the second mass action since March 26 called by Mr. Navalny, who has announced his intention to run for President next year and has drawn a new generation to the streets through a relentless online campaign.

“Alexei has been detained in the stairwell,” his wife Yulia wrote on his Twitter account about 40 minutes before the anti-corruption rally called by the Kremlin critic was set to start in the city centre.

She posted a photo of him getting into a police car in the street outside their home.

Mr. Navalny supporters were demonstrating across Russia, with several arrested as police warned organisers against holding an unauthorised rally in Moscow.

The 41-year-old’s anti-corruption videos have needled the country’s most powerful and drawn to the streets crowds unseen since a wave of protests against President Vladimir Putin’s re-election to a third term in 2012.

Local media said roughly 3,000 people protested in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Smaller rallies also gathered in Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Tomsk, Vladivostok and many other cities.

Mr. Navalny’s team have been broadcasting about the various actions from a studio set up in Moscow, but it went off air just as Mr. Navalny was being picked up by police.

“They turned off the electricity in the studio,” said presenter Leonid Volkov in complete darkness shortly before the channel went off air, to come back online after a few minutes.

Russian website OVD Info, which operates a hotline and tracks detentions at protest events, said 27 people were detained in other cities before the Moscow protest was set to begin at 2 p.m. (1100GMT).

‘We support Navalny’

The wave of protests called by Mr. Navalny coincides with public holiday, Russia day, with Mr. Putin handing out awards and holding a reception in the Kremlin.

On the eve of the event, which authorities had authorised in central Moscow, Mr. Navalny announced the protest was changing location after authorities blocked his efforts set up a stage and sound equipment.

Authorities “are forbidding any contractors from getting us a stage and sound,” he wrote on his blog on Sunday.

“We are cancelling the rally on Sakharov Avenue and moving it to Tverskaya Street,” a main thoroughfare to the Kremlin, he said.

Moscow City Hall labelled the decision a “provocation” while the police warned that a different event was being held at Tverskaya and that the protest would clash with festivities.

“Any provocative actions by the protesters will be viewed as threat to public order and immediately thwarted,” the police said.

To mark Russia Day, the City Hall closed off Tverskaya Street to road traffic and set up a chain of events like re-enactment of various eras in Russian history, from World War I trenches to a Rennaissance fair and sword-fighting.

In surreal scenes, dozens of civilian buses filled by policemen were parked nearby ahead of the unsanctioned rally while ordinary people gawked at actors in period costumes.

The mood was tense as some groups of protesters vowed to go to the authorised location and worried doing otherwise could get them arrested.

Some protesters however heeded his call to change locations. “We support Navalny,” said 16-year-old Yegor with a poster saying “Corruption steals the future.”

“We want the turnover of power, like in ordinary countries,” he said.

The protest on March 26 was the biggest anti-Kremlin event in years and saw hundreds of people detained in the capital, including Mr. Navalny himself who subsequently spent 15 days in jail.

Mr. Navalny called the anti-corruption protests after releasing a film alleging that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev controls a vast fortune through a network of foundations.

The video has been viewed on YouTube over 22 million times.