Author: Debolina Gayen

China’s foreign minister said Thursday that Beijing is worried about the one-year-old grinding conflict with Russia spiraling out of hand and encouraged dialogue on a negotiated settlement with Moscow in a rare phone chat with his Ukrainian counterpart. Before, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang pleaded with the West not to push China through the conflict in Ukraine. At a forum on Tuesday in Beijing, Qin urged diplomats and academics to cease “throwing oil on the fire, blaming China, and “Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow” advocacy right away. According to the statement, Qin told Dmytro Kuleba that China had constantly maintained an…

Israeli demonstrators have pushed ahead with protests against a strategy by the far-right administration to weaken the autonomy of the judicial branch, pushing back against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he dismissed a compromise proposal from President Isaac Herzog that was implied to diffuse the crisis. On Thursday, protesters in Jerusalem painted a red line along the streets heading to the Supreme Court of the nation. Additionally, a small fleet of boats was obstructing a shipping route off the coast of Haifa, a city in the north. Despite weeks of large-scale demonstrations, strong opposition from all sectors of Israeli society,…

Over the weekend, tropical cyclone Freddy struck southern Africa’s shore once more, killing more than 220 people in Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar. According to meteorologists, the month-long hurricane has already shattered one record and may break two more. Stronger storms are being fueled by heat energy from the water’s top as ocean temperatures rise due to climate change. As reported by the World Meteorological Organization, Freddy has produced roughly as much cumulative cyclone energy as a typical full North Atlantic hurricane season. Authorities in Malawi reported 190 fatalities by Tuesday afternoon, in addition to hundreds of injuries and missing persons.…

In a rare judgment related to the country’s so-called “war on drugs,” in which former President Rodrigo Duterte reportedly encouraged police to kill drug suspects, a police officer in the Philippines was found guilty of the murder of two teenagers, local media reported. According to official statistics, more than 6,200 people died in the brutal anti-drug campaign during Duterte’s six-year presidency, which concluded in 2022. Duterte publicly instructed police to shoot drug suspects dead if their lives or the lives of other officers were in danger during his six-year tenure, which concluded in June 2022. According to official statistics, more…

In the newest round of industrial action, UK hospital doctors went on a three-day pay strike on Monday, the first of a week that will witness teachers, train workers, and government employees walk out. The junior doctors claim that since 2008, they have actually had a 26% salary cut due to years of pay increases that have lagged behind inflation. The body which represents them, the British Medical Association (BMA), started a marketing effort before the strike began, claiming that a freshly qualified doctor made less money than some coffee shop employees. A 72-hour work stoppage by 61,000 junior doctors,…

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in cities all over France to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform plan, which the French Senate has now approved. By a vote of 195 to 112, senators adopted the changes late on Saturday, moving the bill closer to becoming law and raising the retirement age by two to 64. Elisabeth Borne, the prime minister, posted on Twitter stating that the Senate ratified the pension reform plan after many hours of debate. After being approved by the Senate, the bill will now be examined by a joint committee of members of the lower and…

Following a three-year trial in which the judge determined that Kem Sokha’s electoral campaigning and civil society work were intended to promote a “colour revolution,” the head of the Cambodian opposition was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 27 years under house arrest. The former leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was informed by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge that he would be permanently barred from politics. He would not be permitted to meet anyone while being under home confinement besides his family. Kem Sokha, the former head of the subsequently disbanded Cambodian National Rescue Party…

The United States recently authorized the potential sale of $619 million worth of weapons to the island, including advanced missiles for Taiwan’s F-16 fighter jets. However, Taiwan has reported a large-scale Chinese air force intrusion into its air defense zone for the second day in a row. Taiwan’s defense ministry reported on Thursday that a total of 21 Chinese combat aircraft entered the island’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), including 17 Chengdu J-10 multirole fighters as well as four modern Shenyang J-16 assault fighters. Since about three years ago, Taiwan, which China claims is its territory, has voiced complaints about…

The poll for president of Nigeria was won by the candidate of the ruling party, Bola Tinubu, whom Nigerians woke up to on Wednesday. In addition to thanking his supporters, he made a plea for solidarity with his opponents, who are already calling for a new election in the most populous country in Africa. The second-and third-place finalists in the weekend election, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, were expected to file a legal challenge in response to the statement made by election officials overnight. Having placed second in the previous election in 2019, Abubakar also questioned the results, though his…

Kim Jong-Un, the leader of North Korea, has ordered a “radical change” in agricultural output amid worries about alleged food shortages in the impoverished nation. On the second day of a crucial party meeting, he stressed the significance of hitting grain production goals and changing production to lay the base for the steady and sustained growth of agriculture according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency. Moreover, during the second day of the seventh enlarged plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim stated that achieving grain production goals this year was a top…