✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. Communal tension has flared in parts of Nepal bordering India, triggering a high-security alert. Protests started Birgunj town of Nepal’s Parsa district after a video went viral on social media with alleged religious content. The demonstrations soon turned violent, with the Parsa district administration imposing a curfew in Birgunj city, near the Raxaul district in Bihar.
2. India is hosting the second phase of specialized capacity building program in cancer care for BIMSTEC countries. The External Affairs Ministry said in a statement that the specialised capacity building program in cancer care was inaugurated at Tata Memorial Centre’s Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Vishakhapatnam.
3. India has introduced a new e-Production Investment Business Visa, known as the e-B-4 Visa, allowing Chinese business professionals to travel to India for specified industrial and commercial activities. The move is part of recent people-centric measures agreed upon by India and China to stabilise and gradually reset bilateral ties.
4. Internationally acclaimed singer Mary Millben has publicly voiced her support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi while expressing concern over recent remarks by the President of the United States concerning India.
5. Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi is scheduled to visit India later this month.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. The United Nations will not send observers for parliamentary elections in Bangladesh to be held on February 12.
2. In Japan, several people have been injured after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Shimane Prefecture and neighboring Tottori Prefecture in western part of the country yesterday.
3. Israel has carried out airstrikes on multiple Hezbollah and Hamas sites in Lebanon. Video footage circulating on social media showed heavy destruction and a large cloud of smoke rising over the coastal city of Sidon following Israeli strikes.
4. China banned the export of dual-use goods to Japan that can serve military purposes. This comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries over Taiwan, a self-ruled island Beijing claims as its sovereign territory.
5. European leaders reject US President Donald Trump’s threat to annex Greenland. Leaders from major European powers rallied behind Greenland, saying in a joint statement that the Arctic island belongs to its people, following renewed interest by the U.S. President in taking over the Danish territory.
The joint statement was issued by leaders of France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and Denmark. The US President’s threats about annexing Greenland, coming in the immediate aftermath of the US operation in Venezuela.
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