World and International News -23 October 2021

India and UK climate initiatives

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav has said that India and the UK have agreed to strengthen climate initiatives and further their green partnership. Mr. Yadav held a bilateral meeting with UK Foreign Minister Elizabeth Truss in New Delhi on 22 Oct. The UK will host the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Glasgow from 31st of this to 12th November.

2. Maldives Defence minister Mariya Didi says country’s relationship with india today is stronger than ever. From extending help after the 2004 tsunami disaster to recently assisting in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s helping hand was “the most immediate and visible,” she added. In September last year, India provided financial assistance of USD 250 million to the Maldives to help it mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. Britain’s defence minister called on China to find a peaceful way to settle its dispute with Taiwan, warning that Chinese incursions into the Taiwanese air defence zone were dangerous and could spark conflict

2. Five Pakistani soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 20 Oct, A roadside bomb went off in the hilly area of Mamund tehsil near the Pak-Afghan border, The blast occurred in Teer Banda locality when a joint team of security forces and police were conducting a search operation in the area following an earlier explosion that had targeted a vehicle of a contractor, wounding two persons.

3. Fifteen people died and one person was missing after a fire broke out at a Russian explosives factory southeast of Moscow on Friday.

4. United Nations announced that it had set up a special trust fund to provide urgently needed cash directly to the people of Afghanistan through a system tapping into donor funds frozen since the country was taken over by Taliban in August 2021.

5. Actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shoots and kills cinematographer on film set in US. The incident occurred on the set of independent feature film ‘Rust’. Baldwin shot Halyna Hutchins, the photography director of “Rust”, and Joel Souza, the film’s director, Hutchins was transported by helicopter to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

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