✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Bangladesh opposition holds protests seeking PM’s resignation. Tens of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh’s main opposition party rallied in the capital on Friday to demand Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and call for general elections to be held under a caretaker government.
The main opposition party, in disarray since its leader Khaleda Zia was jailed in 2018 on graft charges, has held bigger protest rallies in recent months, drawing thousands of supporters amid mounting anger over the cost of living.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been calling for Prime Minister Hasina to step down and for the next election, due in January 2024, to be held under a neutral caretaker government – a demand her government has rejected.
1. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has called for collective action by all countries to deal with the challenge of climate change and environmental protection.
2. Saudi Arabia is looking to sign more free trade agreements and still considering joining the BRICS club of emerging nations, as it looks to boost non-oil exports.
3. Professor Sarang Deo has been appointed as a member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) for Tuberculosis by the World Health Organization (WHO).
4. Deep Narayan Nayak, a dedicated teacher from West Bengal, has achieved recognition as one of the top 10 finalists for the prestigious Global Teacher Prize 2023. This esteemed award, organized annually by the UK-based Varkey Foundation in collaboration with UNESCO and Dubai Cares.
5. President-elect of Maldives Mohamed Muizzu accused the incumbent Ibrahim Solih of granting India significant influence over the nation and compromising its sovereignty by allowing Indian troops on the islands. As per Muizzu, he has initiated discussions with the Indian government about the withdrawal of their military presence.
6. Canada has said that out of the 38,000 visas for Indians, it will only be able to process 20,000 by the end of December this year due to recent reduction of staff on the ground.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Six people have been wounded after a missile struck the Egyptian resort town of Taba near the Israeli border.
2. Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang dies of heart attack at age of 68.
3. Beijing and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have agreed to start on the third reading of a long-delayed code of conduct for the South China Sea amid rising tensions in the disputed waterway.
4. US President Joe Biden has drawn a direct link between Hamas’s terror attack against Israel with the US-led efforts at regional integration in West Asia, hinting at the process to establish diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia-Israel and projects such as the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) as possible triggers for the conflagration in West Asia.
5. The commander of Hamas’ Western Khan Yunis Battalion, Madhath Mubshar, was eliminated by an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) aerial strike on Thursday night.
6. European Union leaders gathered Thursday to debate ways to use their combined leverage to ensure that more aid reaches Palestinians in need, and how to help EU citizens in Gaza escape danger, including some held hostage by Hamas.
7. 🇺🇦UKRAINE has suspended the use of its new Black Sea grain export corridor due to a possible threat from 🇷🇺Russian warplanes and sea mines, the Kyiv-Dased Barva Invest consultancy and the British security firm said.
8. 🇮🇱Israeli ground forces mounted a big raid into Gaza overnight to attack Hamas targets amid growing anger across the Arab world over Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged Palestinian enclave.
9. South 🇰🇷Korea, the US and Japan strongly condemned what they call North Koreas supply of munitions and military equipment to Russia, they said that such weapons shipments sharply increase the human toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
10. 🇨🇳China and the 🇺🇸 United States appear to be restarting dialogue between their militaries, despite continuing disputes over Beijing’s claims to Taiwan and the South China Sea.
11. Pakistan on Thursday gave a last warning to all immigrants in the country illegally, including hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals, to leave voluntarily before a November 1 deadline.
12. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is on the verge of a shutdown as it cancelled over 500 flights in the past 11 days due to the unavailability of fuel.
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