✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. BRICS SHOULD SHOW ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ TO CROSS-BORDER TERRORISM, says External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on 19 May. While addressing a virtual meeting of the BRICS foreign ministers.
The minister also said that a globalised world will give due regard to trust and transparency. The BRICS countries must live up to their commitments to sovereign equality, territorial integrity and international law.
2. India on Friday said that a second bridge being constructed by China on Pangong lake is in an area that has been under illegal occupation of that country since 1960.
3. Cases in Europe
Amid cases of monkeypox in few countries, government has directed officials to keep a close watch on the situation.
The Govt also directed airport and port health officers to be vigilant. “They’ve been instructed that any sick passenger with travel history to…affected countries be isolated and samples sent…for investigation,” an official source said.
4. The New Development Bank (NDB), established by the BRICS countries, has announced that it plans to open its Indian Regional Office at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City).
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has declared the country bankrupt as it faces a fuel crisis and food shortages.
2. Canada bans China’s Huawei Technologies from its 5G networks on security concerns.
3. UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet to visit China for six days next week.
4. While Pakistan faces grim economic prospects with the country languishing in the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto sought to impress upon the international audience that the newly-appointed Shebaz Sharif government will walk the talk on terrorism.
Bhutto made these comments during his three-day official visit to the US where he attended a global food security meeting in New York.
5. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met the world’s richest person and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Brazil on 20 May.
Bolsonaro hailed Musk’s $44 billion bid to acquire Twitter and said, “For us here it was like a breath of hope.” They also talked about connectivity, investments, innovation and the use of technology to reinforce protection of the Amazon rainforest, Bolsonaro tweeted.
6. Russia has informed Finland it will halt the natural gas supply from Saturday after the Finnish state-owned gas wholesaler refused to pay its Russian supplier in roubles.
7. Germany to deliver 15 anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine in July.
8. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for an emergency meeting to discuss the rapidly growing monkeypox outbreak.
××××××××××××××××××××××××××
To join daily news send request
*Telegram Link*
For latest news, first Hand written articles & trending news join Saachibaat telegram group.
https://t.me/joinchat/llGA9DGZF9xmMDc1
 |
Ch Narmada Naveen Kumar |
