World and International News – 21 June 2022

colombia elects first black woman vp francia marquez

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. The seventh round of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission was held in New Delhi on 19 June. It was co-chaired by External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and his Bangladesh counterpart Dr. A.K. Abdul Momen.

2. Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday gave PM Modi’s letter to members of the Afghan Sikh community living in India as he participated in the last rites of Sawinder Singh, a Sikh man who was killed after Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) attacked Karte Parwan Gurdwara in Afghanistan’s Kabul city.

3. ISKP released a statement claiming responsibility for the attack. According to ISKP, ‘Abu Mohammed al Tajiki’ carried out the attack which lasted for three hours. The group claimed that besides submachine guns and hand grenades, four IEDs and a car bomb were also used in the attack.

4. Over 150 Sikhs In Kabul Still Waiting For Visas to Come To India.
Several blasts were reported near the Sikh shrine, in the latest targeting of a place of worship of a minority community in the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. India has slammed the “cowardly attack”.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. Gustavo Petro elected Colombia’s President; Francia Marquez, to be the country’s first black woman Vice President.

2. Australia announced that it will provide 50 million US dollars to support Sri Lanka for meet urgent food and health care needs.

3. Lebanon’s Health Ministry on Monday said that it had detected the country’s first monkeypox case in a person who had returned from abroad.

4. Authorities in Pakistan’s Punjab province are set to impose an ’emergency’ due to rising rape cases, Atta Tarar, the province’s Home Minister has said.

5. Thousands of students marched in Sri Lanka on Monday, calling for the resignations of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and PM Ranil Wickremesinghe amid a severe economic crisis.

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