World and International News – 20-August-2023

china stages war games in stern warning to taiwan

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

China stages war games in ‘stern warning’ to Taiwan. China held air and sea drills around Taiwan on Saturday. Taiwan said 42 warplanes had entered its air defence zone since 9:00 am (0100 GMT), and eight Chinese vessels took part in the exercises.

1. Union Minister for Health Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya launched ‘Global Initiative on Digital Health, GIDH – a WHO Managed Network’ in the presence of Director General, World Health Organization Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the concluding day of the G20 Health Ministers’ Meeting at Gandhinagar.

2. On the third day of the Youth 20 Summit- 2023 which is underway at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, the international delegates participating in the event deliberated and negotiated on the five identified themes for the finalization of Y20 Communique.

3. G20 Digital Economy Ministers’ Meeting in Bengaluru concludes; 40 countries shown interest in adopting Indian Digital Public Infrastructure.

4. 🇳🇪 NIGER: Around 300 Indians are stranded in the capital amid the worsening security situation in the country.

5. A US court has denied the writ of habeas corpus filed by Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana. The verdict has paved the way for US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to issue a certification for him to be extradited to India where he is facing a trial for his alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

6. Singapore-born Indian-origin Tharman Shanmugaratnam and two Chinese-origin former executives of government-linked companies have qualified to run for the city-state’s presidential election on 1st September.

7. Sixteen Telugu students who arrived in the United States for Master’s courses during the week were deported for alleged discrepancies in visa documentation and other eligibilities for entry as per Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

Each of the students will be prohibited to enter the United States for a period of five years for being found inadmissible.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. EUROPE : More people evacuated as wildfire raging in north of Spanish island Tenerife remained out of control.

2. 🇨🇦CANADA : Thousands of residents in British Columbia asked to evacuate after wildfires rapidly intensified.

3. CHINESE🇨🇳 property giant Evergrande has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US amid a deepening real estate crisis in China. It will allow the heavily-indebted company to protect its assets in the US as it works on a multi-billion dollar deal with creditors.

4. 🇧🇩BANGLADESH : A documentary film “Bay of Blood” on genocide in Bangladesh during 1971 War of Liberation yesterday premiered at Liberation War Museam in Dhaka.

5. 🇺🇸US approves transfer of F-16 fighter jets from 🇩🇰Denmark and 🇳🇱Netherlands to 🇺🇦Ukraine.

6. 🇺🇸 United States, 🇯🇵Japan and South 🇰🇷Korea condemned 🇨🇳China’s dangerous and aggressive actions in the South China Sea.

7. 🇵🇰Pakistan former PM Imran Khan booked under Official Secrets Act in cipher case, under the Official Secrets Act for making the content of a confidential diplomatic cable from the country’s embassy in the US, public.

8. 🇲🇾 MALAYSIA : At least 10 killed after private jet (Beechcraft Model 390) crashed into car & motorbike on highway. It was traveling from the resort island of Langkawi to Selangor, west of the capital Kuala Lumpur.

9. 🇧🇩BANGLADESH is yet to raise an issue with China on the latter’s plan to construct a dam upstream Brahmaputra river for hydroelectric project.

10. 🇷🇺Russian court imposes 3-million-ruble fine on Google for failing to false information about conflict in Ukraine.

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