World and International News – 12 July 2023

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. External Affairs S Jaishankar held delegation-level talks with Maldives Foreign Affairs Minister Abdulla Shahid at Hyderabad House:

(a) Maldives and India exchanged nine new MoUs under Phase II of the High Impact Community Development Projects Scheme.

(b) Various MoU on the development of a Volley Court, Mental Health Unit, School Digitalization Project, upgrading Hospitals and schools and preserving culture were signed between India and Maldives on Tuesday.

2. Muslim World League MWL chief Dr Mohammad Bin Abdul Karim al-Issa who is on a visit to India today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.

3. Saudi Arabia’s former Minister for Justice and World Muslim League Secretary General Mohammad Bin Abdulkarim al-Issa, who is on a six-day visit to India, has said that ‘Indian Muslims are proud of being Indians’ and that the country is a great model for coexistence for the entire world.

4. Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra held a meeting with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry in the island nation on Tuesday and discussed Colombo’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s upcoming visit to India.

5. Myanmar, South China Sea tensions top agenda at ASEAN meet In Indonesia.

6. Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan will pay an official visit to Syria. This will be the first Ministerial-level visit from India to Syria since August 2016.

7. United Nations has said that India has registered remarkable reduction in poverty with 41.5 crore people coming out of it in just 15 years.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. China is escalating its chip war with the United States by imposing export controls on the overseas sales of gallium and germanium, elements essential to making semiconductors.

2. Six people have died in a helicopter crash in Nepal. The Manang Air helicopter was carrying five Mexican passengers and a Nepali pilotpilot.

Nepal President Ramchandra Paudel expressed grief over the deaths of Captain Sibi Gurung and five others in the Manang Air helicopter crash close to Mount Everest on Tuesday.

3. NATO country leaders and delegations start gathering in Vilnius on Monday for the alliance’s summit due to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday.

US President Joe Biden, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and other guests are expected to arrive in Lithuania.

4. China and the Solomon Islands on Monday signed a deal on police cooperation as part of an upgrade of their relations to a “comprehensive strategic partnership,” four years after the Pacific nation switched ties from Taiwan to China.

5. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced on Monday he was quitting politics after nearly 13 years in power, in a shock end to his time as the longest-serving leader in the history of the Netherlands.

6. Britain’s ex-PM Boris Johnson, who has been married three times, has become a father for the eighth time at the age of 59. He welcomed his third child with his wife Carrie Johnson. The couple named the baby boy Frank Alfred Odysseus Johnson. The ex-British PM has four children from his second marriage and another child from an extra-marital affair.

7. Protests erupt in Bulgaria over Ukraine’s entry bid into NATO. The protesters reportedly want Bulgaria, which is a member of NATO, to take a neutral stance in the Ukraine war. The protesters reportedly also raised slogans against Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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