World and International News – 01-September-2023

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

After India, three other nations reject China’s ‘baseless’ new map. China released the map of its famous U-shaped line covering about 90% of South China Sea, a source of many disputes in one of world’s most contested waterways. The Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have rejected as baseless a map released by China that denotes its claims to sovereignty including in the South China Sea

1. Minister of Foreign Affairs of North 🇲🇰Macedonia Bujar Osmani met with Vice-President Sri Jagdeep Dhankhar in New Delhi.

2. External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar has said, India along with the other countries is in favour of peace. Referring to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the Minister said, nobody wants this conflict as it has resulted in a hike in prices of oil, food, and fertilizers.

3. Govt makes elaborative arrangements to handle medical emergencies ahead of G20 Summit to be held on 9-10 September.

4. Indian Embassy in Kathmandu organizes musical evening Kala Aamvad to mark birth anniversary of Padma Vibhushan Amrita Pritam, the winner of the Sahitya Academy Awards in 1956.

5. Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh addressed event “G20 Summit : Dhaka to New Delhi”. India’s invitation to Bangladesh as a guest country to G20 reflects the great importance India attaches to Bangladesh as a close friend and partner.

6. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said keeping India out of the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council will only call the credibility of the international organisation into question. UN was formed in 1940 during the Second World War.

7. Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to skip the G20 Summit to be held in India next week.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. World Sanskrit Day was celebrated in Colombo, Sri Lanka by the cultural arm of High Commission of India, Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre (SVCC).

2. SOUTH AFRICA: Over 70 people killed, 50 injured after fire broke out in a building in Johannesburg.

3. Inception, a unit of Abu Dhabi AI company G42, has released ‘Jais’, the world’s most advanced Arabic large language model . Jais is a bilingual Arabic-English model that has been trained on a massive dataset of text and code.

4. UK 🇬🇧 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday appointed Grant Shapps as the new Defence Minister.

5. Japan’s 🇯🇵 Prime Minister Kishida Fumio visited a wholesale market in Tokyo and vowed to draw up support measures for those affected by China’s suspension of Japanese seafood imports.

6. The 🇵🇰Pakistan government has chosen to import one million metric tonnes of sugar to replenish the country’s reduced supply after being deceived by sugar mill owners about a sufficient domestic stock.

7. 🇮🇷Iran warns Israel that it will face retaliation for its airstrike on Syria. Iran’s Foreign Minister condemned on 30th August an Israeli airstrike on the international airport of the Syrian city of Aleppo.

8. North 🇰🇷Korea says it has fired two short-range tactical ballistic missiles to simulate nuclear strikes on military targets in South Korea. State media said the tests had been conducted as a warning against the US deployment of strategic bombers to the region.

9. Military officers in 🇬🇦Gabon declared they were seizing power from President Ali Bongo Ondimba in a coup. He was the 3rd President of Gabon 16 October 2009 – 30 August 2023.

10. Several Russian 🇷🇺 regions came under attack by a swarm of drones in the early hours on Wednesday (30th August 2023). The drones hit an airport in the city of Pskov causing a huge blaze and damaging four military transport planes.

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