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      19 May

      Zelenskyy to join G7 at Hiroshima summit

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to join by video link Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy HIROSHIMA: Leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies huddled Friday to discuss new ways to punish Russia for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine, days before President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joins the Group of Seven summit in person on Sunday. Zelenskyy will be making his furthest trip from of his war-torn country as leaders are set to unveil new sanctions on Russia for its invasion. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, confirmed on national television that Zelenskyy would attend the summit. “We were sure that our president would be where Ukraine needed him, in any part of the world, to solve the…

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    • 19 May

      US President Biden, UK PM Sunak, French President Macron arrive at Hiroshima

      The G7 grouping comprises Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the US, the UK and Germany. Japan under its G7 Presidency has invited leaders from Australia, Brazil, Comoros, Cook Islands, India, Indonesia, South Korea and Vietnam, according to the statement. Hiroshima [Japan]: US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday arrived at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida welcomed them at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the leaders posed for the pictures. For his visit to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, US President Joe Biden was accompanied by his wife Jill Biden. UK PM Rishi Sunak along with his wife Akshata Murty visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Hiroshima Peace…

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    • 19 May

      Queen Elizabeth II: Funeral cost government £162m

      Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and related events cost the government an estimated £162m, the Treasury has said. The state funeral, held on 19 September 2022, followed a period of national mourning. During that time hundreds of thousands of people visited Westminster where the monarch was lying in state. The biggest costs were covered by the Home Office (£74m) and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (£57m). The estimated costs, published by the Treasury, have to do with the Queen’s funeral and other related events including the monarch’s lying-in-state. John Glen, chief secretary to the Treasury, said the government’s priority at the time had been to make sure “these events ran smoothly and with the appropriate level of dignity, while…

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    • 19 May

      Erdogan rival pledges to send migrants back in lurch to right ahead of run-off

      Turkey’s opposition candidate has pledged to deport all migrants in an apparent attempt to appeal to president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ultra-nationalist base ahead of a run-off election. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a soft-spoken career bureaucrat, was four per cent behind Mr Erdogan in the first round of voting last Sunday despite pre-election surveys predicting a reverse outcome. In his first public appearance since the disappointing election results, the 74-year old politician on Thursday made migration the new focus of his campaign. “Erdogan, you have deliberately allowed 10 million refugees to Turkey. You even put Turkish citizenship on sale to get the foreign vote,” Mr Kilicdaroglu claimed, without providing evidence. “I am announcing it here: I will send all refugees back home once I am elected president. Period.”…

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    • 19 May

      UK PM Rishi Sunak clinches Hiroshima Accord on Japan visit

      British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty arrived in Japan on Thursday for the G7 Summit, on the sidelines of which he clinched a new so-called “Hiroshima Accord” for greater UK-Japan economic, security and technology collaboration. This new UK-Japan global strategic partnership is being seen as a counterbalance to Chinese dominance in the region and also includes a Semiconductors Partnership to pursue “ambitious” R&D cooperation and skills exchange to bolster supply chain resilience in the key sector. The UK also confirmed that its Carrier Strike Group (CSG) warship will return to the Indo-Pacific in 2025, following a maiden voyage to the region including India in 2021, as Sunak became the first British Prime Minister to visit Hiroshima…

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    • 19 May

      Cambridge University names building after Cipla chief Yusuf Hamied, first Indian to get the honour

      The alumnus’ Hamied Scholars Programme had provided funds to support and attract early-career researchers in the field of synthetic organic chemistry and doctoral students from the UK and different parts of the world, a PTI report said. In a bid to honour Indian pharmaceutical major Cipla’s chairman Yusuf Hamied, an entire building in Cambridge University has been named after the scientist. Ever since Cambridge University was instituted more than 800 years ago, this is the first time a building has been named after an Indian. Sharing the heartwarming news, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted, “A heartwarming story about a great Indian now immortalised in @Cambridge_Uni.” Eastern Eye report said “grand opening of Yusuf Hamied Court” at Christ’s was presided over by Lord Simon McDonald, the…

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    • 18 May

      Japan, UK renew security ties, aircraft carrier to deploy in 2025

      Tokyo is seeking to shore up its alliances amid heightened tension in the Asia-Pacific over North Korea, Taiwan. The UK’s Carrier Strike Group made its first visit to the region in 2021 The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will sign a new agreement to deepen security ties, including a UK commitment to deploy an aircraft carrier strike group to the Indo-Pacific in 2025. The so-called “Hiroshima Accord” will also cover trade and investment, collaboration on science and technology and joint initiatives to tackle global issues such as climate change, according to a statement from Sunak’s office released ahead of the signing in Hiroshima on Thursday. “The Hiroshima Accord will see us step up…

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    • 18 May

      Myanmar military has imported weaponry worth $1bn since coup

      UN expert says Russia, China and companies in Singapore top list of those sending weapons to military accused of abuses. The military seized power from the elected government in February 2021 Myanmar’s military has imported arms worth at least $1bn since seizing power in February 2021, despite “overwhelming evidence of its responsibility for atrocity crimes”, a United Nations expert has said. Most of the weapons came from Russia, China and companies in Singapore, Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar said in a report [PDF] released on Wednesday in New York. The exports cover weapons, dual-use technology and materials used to manufacture weapons exported from the day of the coup on February 1, 2021, to December…

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    • 18 May

      Ukraine tells China envoy peace plan must not lose land to Russia

      Ukraine’s foreign minister told China’s envoy that Kyiv would not accept any peace proposal that involved a loss of territory to Russia or that would freeze the conflict. Li Hui was in Kyiv to promote Beijing-led negotiations to resolve the conflict. He is expected to end his European tour in Moscow – Eduard Kryzhanivskyi/Press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine/Handout Ukraine’s foreign minister told a top Chinese envoy that Kyiv would not accept any proposals to end the war with Russia that involved Ukraine losing territory or the placing of the conflict on hold, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba made the remarks during a meeting in Kyiv with Li Hui, who is China’s special representative…

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    • 18 May

      China’s Xi hosts central Asia summit as Russian influence wanes

      The leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are in Xian for a two-day meeting. Chinese President Xi Jinping is hosting the summit in the city of Xian China’s President Xi Jinping is in the central city of Xian where he is hosting his first-ever summit with the leaders of five Central Asian nations, underlining Beijing’s growing influence in a region that Russia has long considered its own back yard. The two-day event brings together the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan whose countries are crucial to China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It is being held in Xian, the historic city that once marked the start of the fabled Silk Road. Yu Jun, deputy director-general of…

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