✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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#External affairs Minister: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
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1. The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently said that the rate of unemployment around the world will settle at 4.9% in 2024, a small drop from the previous year.
2. India is rapidly urbanizing, which is causing a big change in the country’s population. By 2047, it is expected that over half of the people will live in cities. It’s important to make big investments, says the World Bank.
3. India has expressed concern over the loss of civilian lives in Rafah, the Palestine city in southern Gaza. Briefing media in New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs’ spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, the Israeli side has already announced an investigation into the incident.
4. The 6th Meeting of the India-Japan Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism was held in New Delhi on 29 May 2024. The Indian delegation was led by K.D. Dewal, Joint Secretary (CT), Ministry of External Affairs of the Republic of India, and the Japanese delegation, by Ambassador Hiroyuki Minami, Representative of the Government of Japan.
5. PM Modi lauded the remarkable feat of IIT Madras startup Agnikul Cosmos, which launched the world’s first rocket with a single-piece three-dimensional (3D) printed engine.
6. The 4th Round of India-Bangladesh Consular Dialogue was held on 29 May in New Delhi. Joint Secretary, Consular, Passport and Visa Division, Dr. Aman Puri led the Indian delegation, while the delegation from Bangladesh side was led by Director General (South Asia), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rokebul Haque.
7. *US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen blames India, China for hindering ‘Pillar 1’ tax deal:* US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she is trying to save a part of the global corporate tax deal focused on highly profitable multinational firms, but India is refusing to engage on issues important to US interests.
8. Sri Lankan government on Thursday said that four of its nationals arrested in India last week by the authorities in Gujarat for links with the Islamic State terror group have no record of being “religious extremists” but drug addicts.
9. An Indian woman and her minor son, both victims of human trafficking, were handed over to Indian forces at the Wagah border after they completed their sentence for illegally entering Pakistan last year, a Pakistani official said on Thursday.
🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
UNO Gen. Secy : António Guterres.
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1. The Swedish government just recently said that it would be sending a lot more troops to help Ukraine fight Russia. As part of this help, Sweden is giving Ukraine two advanced radar surveillance and command aircraft.
2. Pakistan on Thursday launched a multi-mission communication satellite for faster internet connectivity with the help of its all-weather ally China, making it Islamabad’s second satellite to be sent into orbit within a month.
3. Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz’s centrist party on Thursday (May 30) said that they had submitted a bill seeking to dissolve the parliament and have an early election.
4. Google has announced that it will invest USD 2 billion in Malaysia to establish its first data centre and “cloud region” in the Southeast Asian country, which is expected to create 26,500 jobs by 2030.
5. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva removed his ambassador to Israel from his post and sent him to serve as his special representative in Geneva amid a diplomatic spat between the two countries.
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