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China to work with BRICS to promote common development: Xi
Given the fragile global economic recovery, widening development gap and serious challenges such as climate change and digital governance, the BRICS nations should remain true to the bloc's founding purposes and work with other developing countries to rise to challenges and open up brighter futures, Xi said.
Scholz says no shortcuts to Ukraine's EU membership bid
The European Commission is expected to complete its initial assessment of Ukraine's EU membership application by the end of June, Scholz added on Thursday in his address to the Bundestag, the lower house of the German Parliament. Not allowing shortcuts on the country's road to the EU, however, is an "imperative of fairness" towards the other countries of the Western Balkans, he said.
NATO chief vows to settle Turkey's concerns over expansion
"We are addressing the concerns that Turkey has expressed," he said on Thursday at a press conference held here jointly with his host, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Finland and Sweden have decided to apply for NATO membership. Turkey has said it opposed the two Nordic states' accession to the military alliance, Xinhua news agency reported.
Israel's ruling coalition becomes minority after Arab lawmaker resigns
In the letter, the lawmaker said she was quitting because Bennett's government has taken a string of "hawkish and right-wing policies" over the flashpoint holy site of Al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem, demolitions of Bedouin homes in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, and other issues relating to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
Turkey insists on saying 'no' to Sweden and Finland's NATO bid: Erdogan
"We told our relevant friends that we would say 'no' to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, and we will resolutely continue this policy," he added on Thursday.Amid Helsinki and Stockholm's NATO bids, Erdogan reiterated Ankara's policy at a meeting with a group of young people in the capital Ankara on the occasion of the Commemoration of Ataturk, Youth and Sports Day.
Pakistan's flawed foreign policy and its internal dimensions
We have already witnessed how the government of Imran Khan desperately tried to reach out to Russia at a time when the world was unhappy with Russia for targeting Ukraine. Much against the desire of the West and at the cost of jeopardising relations with the US, Pakistan went ahead and engaged with the Russians in what many in Pakistan considered as 'Harakiri'.
Global famine likely this year: Putin aide
According to the official, a global famine could break out by fall this year, RT reported. "It is important that in the conditions, for example, of a global famine that will occur closer to autumn, and by the end of this year all over the world, Russia should not suffer, but be fully provided with food," Oreshkin stated, as cited by RIA Novosti.
US offers 'full, total, complete' support for Sweden, Finland's NATO applications
Sweden and Finland had applied for membership of the 30-country military alliance on Wednesday. They have cited Russian invasion of Ukraine as their reason for shedding their longstanding neutrality, though they are members of the European Union and have cooperated militarily with NATO.
NASA's Marsquake hunting mission to last only till December
InSight (short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport), which landed on Mars on November 26, 2018, has thus far detected more than 1,300 marsquakes. Most recently, it detected a magnitude 5 that occurred on May 4 - and located quake-prone regions of the Red Planet.
Samsung to show cutting edge 3-nm chip to Joe Biden during campus visit
Biden is set to arrive in Seoul Friday on his first visit to the country since taking office, and only 10 days after South Korea's new President Yoon Suk-yeol took office. His three-day visit to South Korea will start with a tour of Samsung's Pyeongtaek complex, the world's largest semiconductor facility, located some 70 kms south of Seoul, reports Yonhap news agency.
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