World and International News – 15 April 2023

PM Fumio Kishida unharmed after smoke bomb at speech

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal met Italian Minister for Enterprises Adolfo Urso on Thursday and discussed a range of issues of mutual interest.

2. Union Minister of State for External Affairs, Meenakashi Lekhi, will be on an official visit to Croatia and Slovenia from April 16-19.During her visit, Meenakashi Lekhi will hold meeting with Croatia’s State Secretary for Political Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.

3. India played a crucial role in the International Monetary Fund (IMF’s) clearance of a 48-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) worth USD 2.9 billion to crisis-hit Sri Lanka.

4. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday met President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique and affirmed commitment to work for advancements in trade and investments, defence, development cooperation, health and people-to-people ties.

Accompanied by the Mozambican Transport Minister, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday took a ride in a ‘Made in India’ train in the country’s capital Maputo.

5. The two-days international meeting of Women 20 organized under G-20 in Jaipur concluded on Friday. The second day of the meet began with a yoga session.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. Pakistan Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir’s task is to create unity within the ranks of top echelons of the Pakistani army and ensure that former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is kept out of the electoral contest expected to be held this year, The Asian Lite reported.

2. Pakistan’s defence minister, Khawaja Asif, said Islamabad has warned the Afghan Taliban it will strike terrorist hideouts inside Afghanistan if Kabul is unable to rein in anti-Pakistan militants.

3. Dwarf tomatoes were grown in a miniature greenhouse aboard the International Space Station as a part of NASA’s Veg-05 experiment. The tomato harvest is all set to return to Earth on April 15 after testing it for nutritional value. The hardware used in the experiment could provide fresh produce to those without access to gardens and horticultural therapy.

4. Former President Donald Trump answered questions for nearly seven hours Thursday during his second deposition in a legal battle with New York’s attorney general over his company’s business practices.

5. North Korea says it has tested a newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile targeting the mainland U.S. North, its recent weapons test involved a new long-range missile powered by solid propellants.

6. The FBI on Thursday arrested a member of the U.S. Air National Guard over the leaks online of classified documents that embarrassed Washington with allies around the world.

7. Japan PM Fumio Kishida unharmed after ‘smoke bomb’ at speech. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated from a port in Wakayama after a blast was heard, but he was unharmed in the incident. NHK showed footage of security and police detaining an individual as a crowd scattered at the scene.

Japan has bolstered security after the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot and killed while speaking at a campaign event in July 2022.

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