✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and Foreign Secretary of the Philippines Enrique A. Manalo co-chaired the 5th India-Philippines Joint Commission on Bilateral Cooperation in New Delhi.
Philippines ratifies updated Air Services Agreement with India during 5th Joint Commission on Bilateral Cooperation in New Delhi.
2. In a significant development, ten Indian fishermen, including seven individuals from Kerala and three from Tamil Nadu, have been detained in Iran on June 20th.
Indian Consulate General in Bandar Abbas Assures Efforts to Secure Release of Ten Arrested Fishermen in Iran.
3. External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar stated that it is not possible to have a normal relationship with Pakistan until there is a departure from the policy of cross-border terrorism.
4. Sri Lanka has unveiled a comprehensive restructuring plan for its domestic debt to meet the targets set by the International Monetary Fund.
5. Indian-origin satellite industry expert Aarti Holla-Maini has been appointed as the Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna.
6. Russian President Vladimir Putin called PM Narendra Modi a “great friend of Russia” at an event in Moscow.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian expressed Iran’s positive stance towards reestablishing relations with Egypt and Morocco during a ceremony commemorating Eid al-Adha.
2. World Bank approved $700 million in financing to help Sri Lanka to recover from the current economic crisis. Of this amount, $500 million has been assigned for budgetary support and $200 million for social security
3. United States Department of Labour has condemned the murder of Shahidul Islam, a labour leader from Bangladesh. Shahidul Islam was the Gazipur unit president of the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation.
4. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who quelled the feud between the Wagner Group and Russia, has confirmed that mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has arrived in his country.
5. Russian President Vladimir Putin said military personnel involved in countering the Wagner private mercenary group’s short-lived mutiny over the weekend saved the country from civil
6. Two million pilgrims from across world converged at Arafat in Saudi Arabia for Haj.
7. Zimbabwe defeated Oman by 14 runs in the first match of ODI World Cup Qualifier 2023 Super Six stage. With the win, Zimbabwe are on top of the points table with six points.
8. The UK has introduced a law to prevent British lawyers from advising Russian companies on certain business deals, in a bid to exert pressure on Russia amid its Ukraine invasion.
9. White House was enveloped in smoke from the Canadian wildfires on Thursday. Air quality warnings were issued in Washington, DC, and 16 other states due to the ongoing fires. Over 30 new wildfires sparked in Canadian forests on Wednesday, bringing the total to approximately 500.
10. South Korean shoppers are rushing to buy sea salt over safety concerns as Japan is due to dump over 1 million metric tonnes of treated radioactive water from a wrecked nuclear power plant into the sea. The water was mainly used to cool damaged reactors at the Fukushima power plant.
11. France unrest: Riots spread, thousands march in memory of shot teenager
President Emmanuel Macron battled to contain a mounting crisis on Thursday after riots spread across France overnight, set off by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of North African descent during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb.
Police made 180 arrests during a second night of unrest, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said, as public anger spilled onto the streets in towns and cities across the country.
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