House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday won Republican nomination to remain in the position, after US President-elect Donald Trump appeared to have backed him during a meeting with House Republicans.
Yoon will travel to Peru from Thursday to Friday for the APEC summit and head to Brazil on Sunday for the G20 summit slated for the next two days, Yonhap news agency reported.
Voting in Sri Lanka's parliamentary poll started on Thursday to elect 225 members to the Parliament with President Anura Kumara Dissanyake seeking a majority.
The Australian government has announced a new plan to force social media companies to take proactive steps to ensure the well-being of their users.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Thrusday for an official visit.
"So they took Ukraine as a platform for experiments, the unfortunate Ukrainian people - multinational, by the way," Zakharova was quoted as saying by Sputnik.
Some of these students arrived just days before the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. As the conflict kept brewing the US embassy in Kabul was also closed.
The Omicron variant, first reported from South Africa and Botswana in late November, has now been detected in 171 countries so far.
In line with this, the WHO has already formed the Technical Advisory Group on Covid-19 Vaccine Composition (Tag-Co-Vac) for this purpose.
Outbound shipments came to $10.94 billion, surpassing the $10 billion mark for the first time ever, according to the data from the Ministry.
