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Taiwan has rejected South Africa’s demand that it move its representative office in the country from the capital, Pretoria, to the commercial center of Johannesburg

BRICS Summit in Russia's Kazan, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, TASS reported citing the Russian president's foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov. Speaking to reporters, Ushakov stated that the meetings will start on October 22. He said Putin will have a meeting with New Development Bank President Dilma Rousseff. Following his talks with Rousseff, Putin will hold a meeting with PM Modi and later with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Furthermore, Putin's meetings are also planned with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, according to TASS report.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. There are good reasons for Israel not to hit Iran’s nuclear programme in its coming retaliation against the Islamic Republic. Yet the logic for a preemptive strike has never been as compelling, precisely because Tehran’s case for building a nuclear arsenal has also never been as strong.

US Vice President Kamala Harris is in a slightly better position in comparison to former US President Donald Trump in the US Presidential Elections 2024, revealed poll surveys. According to The Arizona Republic, recent polls revealed that US Vice President Kamala Harris has a national lead of near about 3-4 points over the former US President Donald Trump. Arizona will be one of the most important battleground states during the US Presidential elections 2024 and the political campaigning by the candidates in Arizona are in full swing during recent times, reported The Arizona Republic. On the other hand, some recent poll surveys also indicated a tight race between former US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Kamala Harris with Donald Trump polling at 50% during some instances. Also Read: There's buzz, Ben Affleck wants to get back with Jennifer Lopez, will she oblige?

Arctic sea for the first time, for a joint patrol with Russian counterparts, state media reported on Wednesday. The arrival of ship «Meishan» on Tuesday coincided with the 75th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, state television said. It also marked the 75th anniversary of China-Russia diplomatic relations. This follows similar joint patrols the two nations have been carrying out in the northern Pacific Ocean since Sept. 21, the report said.

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that no challenges can stop the country from moving forward and reiterated Beijing's reunification aims with Taiwan.

Stop-and-start negotiations between Israel and Hamas to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip, pushed by the United States, have repeatedly been described by the Biden administration as on the verge of a breakthrough, only to fail. The current Western-led attempt to avert a full-scale Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon amounts to a scramble to avert disaster. Its chances of success seem deeply uncertain after the Israeli killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, on Friday. «There's more capability in more hands in a world where centrifugal forces are far stronger than centralizing ones,» said Richard Haass, the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. «The Middle East is the primary case study of this dangerous fragmentation.»

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Two gut instincts have distinguished the macroeconomic policies of Xi Jinping, China’s ruler since 2012. He has disdained consumer handouts, which he thinks breed laziness.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s frugal moon mission, Chandrayaan 3, achieved the pioneering feat of landing near the south pole of the Moon. In STEM fields—of science, technology, engineering and mathematics—India and the Indian diaspora have nearly as many Nobel laureates (two in Physics, one in Chemistry and one in Medicine) as the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese diaspora (three in Physics, one in Chemistry and one in Medicine).

A Bimol Akoijam raises pointed questions over the Centre's «inaction», suggesting that such a situation would not have been left unaddressed if it happened in states such as Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In an interview with PTI Videos, Akoijam vehemently criticised the Centre's handling of the situation in Manipur, asking why the government of India was allowing the northeastern state to become like Afghanistan, which he described as a «banana republic». «With 60,000 troops stationed in Manipur, the central government should have prevented this crisis from persisting for so long,» Akoijam stated. «If this were happening in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, or Madhya Pradesh, would it have been allowed to linger? Most people would say no,» he added.

Union cabinet's approval for 'one nation, one poll' has set the ball rolling for what is, indeed, an ambitious venture. If the proposal is passed by Parliament, India will join an exclusive club. Only three countries — Belgium, Sweden and South Africa — have ONOP.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Taiwan’s central bank held interest rates steady with a watchful eye on inflation, declining to join the U.S. Federal Reserve and a growing number of its Asian counterparts in starting to ease monetary policy.

Taiwan says China’s ban on imports of its fruit, vegetables, seafood and other goods violate trade rules, in the latest ratcheting up of tensions between the self-governing island republic and its massive neighbor, which has vowed to annex Taiwan by force

Iran's new reformist President insisted Monday that Tehran didn't want to enrich uranium at near-weapons grade levels but had been forced to by the US withdrawal from its nuclear deal with world powers. The comments by President Masoud Pezeshkian at his first news conference, underlines a campaign promise he made to try to see international sanctions on the Islamic Republic lifted. However, it remains unclear just how much room for negotiation Pezeshkian will have. «I think, we said many times, we don't want to do this at all. We want to solve our technical and scientific needs, we are not looking for nuclear weapons,» Pezeshkian said. «We adhered to the framework written in the (nuclear deal). We are still looking to maintain those frameworks. They tore them, they forced us to do something.»

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Turkey said it condemned this week's signing of a roadmap to boost two-way defence co-operation between the United States and the Republic of Cyprus. The move came amid United Nations efforts to find common ground for the resumption of long-stalled negotiations between the rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities on the Mediterranean island, which has been divided for decades. The U.S. steps, including last June's announcement of the launch of a strategic dialogue with Cyprus, are detrimental to the security of the Turkish Cypriot side of the island, the Turkish foreign ministry said.

Just months after the shocking unravelling of Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank last year, Michael Barr unveiled a new set of guardrails for the U.S.’s biggest lenders and an uncompromising defence of why they were needed.

India has sent around 2300 kg of medical aid to Chad, in response to a deadly fire incident in the African nation, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Saturday. The consignment departed from New Delhi today, contains essential life-saving antibiotics and general medicines. This underscores India's 'Vishwabandhu' approach, where it serves as a friend to the whole world.