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Australian PM to meet Macron to 'reset' relations
Albanese said that he has accepted Macron's invitation to visit France, reports Xinhua news agency. It comes weeks after Albanese announced his new government had agreed to pay French shipbuilder Naval Group around A$830 million ($573 million ) in compensation for a cancelled submarine contract.
BRICS members seek to benefit from global dislocations caused by war, Covid
Beijing-based state-owned news organization Global Times said that with the conflict in Ukraine as a backdrop along with the uncertain economic situation at an international level, mounting inflation in Western countries, and rising global prices of basic commodities that threaten the development of various emerging countries, "the voice of the BRICS as a mechanism for cooperation is more important than ever".
Karachi amongst world's worst cities to live in
According to the Index, Karachi ranked 168 amongst 173 cities with an index score of 37.5. This placed the Pakistani metropolis squarely in the middle of the bottom 10 cities of the world on the index. It primarily suffered due to poor stability and healthcare. It had a stability score of 20, at par with that of Lagos and Damascus.
Biden authorises $450mn additional security assistance to Ukraine
"The US has now committed approximately $6.8 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including approximately $6.1 billion since the beginning of Russia's unprovoked invasion on February 24," Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Todd Breasseale was quoted as saying in the statement.
US Senate passes 1st gun control bill in 28 yrs
The new legislation includes a series of measures, such as tougher background checks for customers younger than 21 years; $15 billion in federal funding for mental health programmes and school security upgrades; calls for funding to encourage states to implement "red flag" laws to remove firearms from people considered a threat.
The bipartisan new gun deal is historic, but falls short of Biden's wish-list
The new gun law has actually emerged from asymmetrical negotiations in which the top Democratic negotiator always predicted he wouldn't get everything he wanted, while the top Republican always promised the bill wouldn't have anything he didn't want, claim Olivier Knox backed by research from Caroline Anders in a special dispatch in the Washington Post reporting the Bipartisan framework legislations proceedings.
Supreme Court strikes down New York state gun laws as too restrictive
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down by a 6-3 majority vote a New York gun law enacted more than a century ago that places restrictions on carrying a concealed handgun outside the home -- an opinion marking the widest expansion of gun rights in a decade. "Because the State of New York issues public-carry licences only when an applicant demonstrates a special need for self-defence, we conclude that the State's licensing regime violates the Constitution," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court's 6-3 majority ruling.
McCarthy move to yank out all Republicans from Jan 6 panel rankles Trump
An angry Trump, who has privately and publicly targeted the Californian lawmaker in recent times, let out his frustrations that his congressional allies are not able to defend him during the televised hearings in the ongoing probe into the Capitol Hill riots that endangered the life of his VP Mike Pence. Trump, in an apparent knee-jerk reaction, has made it clear that he has not yet endorsed McCarthy to be the next Speaker.
G-7 invitation not intended to "splinter" countries from Russia
India, Indonesia, South Africa, Senegal, Argentina and Ukraine have been invited to the summit as guests at certain sessions. India has been attending these summits at the invitation of the host countries for years now, going back to the G-8 summit in Gleneagles in Scotland in 2005. Russia was the eighth member; it was thrown out of the group after it attacked Ukraine in 2014 and annexed Crimea.
India warns of Afghanistan becoming haven for JeM, LeT; calls for international action
India's Permanent Representative T.S. Tirumurti told the UN Security Council on Thursday, "We need to see concrete progress in ensuring that such proscribed terrorists, entities or their aliases do not get any support, tacit or direct, either from Afghan soil or from the terror sanctuaries based in the region."
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