✈️ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. The 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum begins in New Delhi today on the theme “Fostering Parliaments for People-Centric Development”, with PM Modi to grace the event. Eleven BRICS members and 10 partner countries have been invited; Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will chair it.
2. Ahead of the forum, Om Birla held talks with Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin on parliamentary cooperation and countering terrorism, and thanked Russia for backing India’s bid for permanent UNSC membership. He also met Egypt’s delegation head Sameh Shoukry and thanked Egypt for strongly condemning the Pahalgam terror attack.
3. EAM S. Jaishankar, at the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan in New Delhi marking 75 years of Chinmaya Mission, said the use of terrorism as an instrument of statecraft is simply unacceptable and urged the UN to show leadership rather than remain a spectator to global crises. He said the Global South faces a ‘4F’ crisis of finance, fuel, food and fertiliser.
4. At the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, India’s First Secretary Raghoo Puri called Pakistan’s administration a ‘Form 47 government’ that cannot override its military, the country’s ‘real rulers’. He said Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and the only outstanding issue is Pakistan’s vacation of the territories it illegally occupies.
5. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said in Rotterdam that India, which doubled its port capacity in the past decade, aims to quadruple it by 2047, and sought cooperation with the Port of Rotterdam in maritime infrastructure, green energy and carbon capture. He also met the Indian diaspora in Amsterdam.
6. Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal began a four-day visit to South Korea in Busan, pitching India’s shipbuilding opportunity to Korean industry as India aims to be among the world’s top five shipbuilding nations by 2047. He met Indian professionals working with Samsung Heavy Industries, Hanwha Ocean and HD Hyundai.
7. India has issued a fresh advisory for its nationals in Saudi Arabia, particularly Umrah pilgrims, hit by flight cancellations amid Houthi attacks. The Consulate in Jeddah said its 24×7 control rooms in Jeddah and Makkah are helping stranded Indians and it is in touch with Saudi authorities on visa validity and delayed departures.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. French authorities arrested 1,314 people over the weekend as violence broke out alongside mass protests against the high cost of living, the second straight weekend of unrest; 53 police officers were injured.
2. Protesters briefly entered Rome’s Colosseum during nationwide demonstrations in Italy over living costs and government policies; nine people were arrested. PM Giorgia Meloni announced 500 more soldiers for Milan and tougher penalties for minors involved in violence.
3. Saudi Arabia partly reopened Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, operating two terminals, after a two-week shutdown that followed a Houthi attack on 10 October which killed 13 people. The Houthis said the airport remains a “military target”.
4. Venezuelan Opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado returned to Venezuela for the first time since December, appearing at a church in Lara, west of Caracas. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who took over after the US military ousted Nicolás Maduro in January, has stayed on beyond her initial 90-day term without calling an election.
5. Uganda announced a 21-day quarantine for citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an Ebola precaution, saying the country remains Ebola-free. Screening has been stepped up at Entebbe airport and all land borders.
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