Thousands of residents were evacuated in the Philippines before typhoon Doksuri made landfall on Wednesday. Rivers are overflowing, and thousands have been left without electricity. Authorities have also warned of storm surges, landslides, and damage to infrastructure.
Myanmar’s military government may move ousted democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi from prison to house arrest in Naypyitaw soon as an act of clemency to prisoners as part of a religious ceremony due next week.
The first rupee trade shipment from West Bengal’s Petrapole port to Bangladesh took place on Tuesday. The shipment worth Rs 1.23 crore (~$150,000) of a vehicle chassis from Tata Motors took place from the port in North 24 Parganas and is aimed at strengthening regional currency and trade.
Elon Musk’s electric car manufacturer Tesla plans to build a factory to produce an ‘all-new $24,000 car’ in India. Representatives from the company are expected to meet Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal this month to discuss the plan. The new vehicle would reportedly be 25% cheaper than the company’s lowest-priced offering.
Mali’s recent constitutional revision marks a significant shift, as it discontinues the use of French as the official language, a role the European language has held in the West African nation since 1960. The new constitution, which received an overwhelmingly favourable 96.91% vote in a referendum on 18 June, introduces substantial changes to the linguistic landscape. While French will retain its prominence as the working language, the new constitution grants official language recognition to the country’s 13 national languages, elevating their importance and promoting linguistic diversity.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit China in October when the country will host the One Belt One Road meeting, Putin’s advisor Yury Ushakov announced on Tuesday. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said earlier that some of the issues on the agenda during the visit would include bilateral trade and economic cooperation. It was also reported that Moscow and Beijing will share views on the current global situation.
The Russian Defence Ministry stated late on Tuesday that a delegation headed by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu reached North Korea to join a Chinese group in the first such visit to the country since the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the media reports, the two delegations will attend Pyongyang’s 70th “Victory Day” celebration on Thursday, with Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Li Hongzhong leading the Beijing side. The ministry declared, “This visit will help strengthen Russian-North Korean military ties and will be an important stage in the development of cooperation between the two countries.”
The UN began a 19-day operation on Tuesday to remove more than 1 million barrels of oil from a supertanker to avert a catastrophic oil spill in the Red Sea. A tanker named Safer has been stranded off Yemen’s Red Sea coast for nearly eight years after the civil war began in the Middle Eastern country. The UN believes an oil spill from the tanker can have a “severe” environmental impact on Yemen’s water and reefs and lead to disruptions in the Suez Canal’s Bab al-Mandab strait.