World and International News – 05 December 2022

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. Union Minister for Space, Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh will visit the United Arab Emirates. He is due to attend the inaugural Abu Dhabi Space Debate on 5 December 2022.

2. Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat on Sunday said, “Currently, Pakistan is in a weak condition, we should take back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

3. External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar will hold a meeting with Federal Foreign Affairs Minister of Germany Annalena Baerbock in New Delhi on Monday.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. Demonstrations in China against the strict COVID-19 policy have made things difficult for President Xi Jinping’s administration, since the level of anger and frustration among the Chinese people has gone beyond all reasonable bounds.

2. Three Chinese astronauts have landed back on Earth after spending six months completing construction of Tiangong space station.

3. Elon Musk advised Joe Biden to buy a Tesla, as the US President revealed plans to build 5 lakh EV charging stations across the country.

4. Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan has accused the country’s former Army chief Gen(retd.) Qamar Javed Bajwa of playing a “double game” against his government. Khan further said that he committed a “big mistake” by extending Bajwa’s tenure in 2019.

5. Nine people died after a flash flood swept away members of a church congregation along the Jukskei River in South Africa’s Johannesburg on Saturday.

6. The Spokesperson of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that Mr Ramaphosa will not resign despite a scandal over money stolen from his farm. The spokesperson suggested Mr Ramaphosa would fight on, and rather than quit would seek a second term as leader of his African National Congress party.

7. US Air Force has unveiled its newest nuclear stealth bomber, the B-21 on Saturday, which will gradually replace the aircraft first flown during the Cold War.

8. Dominique Lapierre, the French author who wrote City of Joy – the iconic book on Kolkata – has died. He was 91. Born on July 30, 1931 in Chatelaillon, Lapierre has sold about 50 million copies of the six books he wrote. He went on to write several volumes, six in partnership with the US journalist Larry Collins. Among those six is the noted book on the liberation of Paris during the World War II, Is Paris Burning?

Collins also partnered with Lapierre for O Jerusalem! in 1972, Freedom at Midnight in 1975 and the novels The Fifth Horseman in 1980 and Is New York Burning? in 2005.

Other books like Beyond Love (1990) and A Thousand Suns (1999) have been international best-sellers.

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