LIVE: Qatar, Kuwait summon India envoy over BJP leaders' remarks

Live news updates: India’s envoy was summoned by the government in Qatar on Sunday amid outrage over comments on Prophet Muhammad by two BJP leaders, who were suspended after the controversy.

The BJP has taken action against spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal, seeking to calm anger in Arab nations, where calls for a boycott of Indian goods and movies made for social media messages and trending hashtags.

“HE Mr Soltan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the State, handed this note to the Ambassador of the Republic of India. The State of Qatar welcomed the statement issued by the ruling party in India in which it announced the suspension of the party's official from practicing his activities in the party due to his remarks that angered all Muslims around the world," said the Qatar’s ministry of foreign affairs in a statement, according to hindustantimes.com.

President Vladimir Putin warned the United States in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Russia would strike new targets if the West supplied longer-range missiles to Ukraine for use in high-precision mobile rocket systems, Reuters reported.

The United States has ruled out sending its own or NATO forces to Ukraine but Washington and its European allies have supplied weapons to Kyiv such as drones, Howitzer heavy artillery, anti-aircraft Stinger and anti-tank Javelin missiles.