South Korea and Britain have launched a new high-level dialogue channel meant to discuss ways of stronger cooperation on a wide range of economic and financial issues, finance ministry said on Sunday.
On 6 August, when the world’s eyes were on the growing violence in Bangladesh, Ukraine launched an offensive into the Kursk region of Russia. Ten thousand Ukrainian troops entered Kursk without encountering any resistance.
The riots, which followed the killings of three young girls in the northern English town of Southport, began after the July 29 attack was wrongly blamed on a Muslim migrant based on online misinformation, Reuters reported.
Reduced to playing with only ten men for two thirds of the match, India brought off a Houdini-like escape act to get past Britain via the penalty shootout and enter the hockey semifinals in the Olympic Games here on Sunday.
New UK chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ ambitious plan to “get Britain building again” marks a bold step toward addressing the nation’s chronic housing shortage, stagnating infrastructure projects, and renewable energy needs.
The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and a few other British officials have been barred from entering Russia because of their support for Ukraine.
Many a story has come to light of individuals being obliged to maintain a distance from a dying parent around the same time that Johnson’s staff were busy socialising. Particularly cringeworthy, perhaps, was No.10’s abject apology to Buckingham Palace for a well-attended farewell do last April on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral — where Queen Elizabeth notably sat alone in a pew. (Mind you, the farewell wasn’t for Philip.)
The Treasury chief, Rishi Sunak, a potential rival for the PM’s office, tweeted, ”I stand behind the PM hundred per cent as he takes our country forward. The PM was right to apologise and I do support his request for patience while Sue Gray, a public service veteran with a reputation as a straight-shooter, carries out her enquiry.”
The meeting with the British foreign minister came a day after the UK announced new COVID-related travel restrictions which have caused a furore in India.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said she expected questions about the Afghanistan evacuation timeline to be part the G-7 meeting.
