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1.India is a global strategic partner of the United States, the Biden administration said on February 27 as Secretary of State Tony Blinken left for New Delhi to attend a host of key conferences including the G-20 Foreign Ministers' meeting.Mr. Blinken will also attend a Quad Ministerial meeting and hold a bilateral talk with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.-thehindu.com 2.The Canadian government has banned the social media app TikTok from all its devices as of Tuesday.A release issued by the nodal agency, the Treasury Board Secretariat said the decision to “remove and block TikTok from government mobile devices is being taken as a precaution, particularly given concerns about the legal regime that governs the information collected from mobile devices, and is in line with the approach of our international partners. On a mobile device, TikTok’s data collection methods provide considerable access to the contents of the phone.-hindustantimes.com 3.The Indian government made si...

1.Chancellor Olaf Scholz, wrapping up a two-day visit to India, urged the country’s IT specialists and other skilled workers to consider working in Germany.Looking for ways to tackle labor shortages in Europe’s largest economy, Scholz said his coalition government was planning to reduce immigration hurdles and introduce a point-based system that would grant visas even to specialists who don’t yet have a firm job offer in hand.-hindustantimes.com 2.Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will head to Turkey and Syria Monday morning, his office said, for the first such visit in a decade of tense relations with both countries.The trip aims to show "solidarity with the two countries and their brotherly peoples" after the devastating earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey earlier this month, a foreign ministry statement said.-hindustantimes.com 3.India’s role on the global stage continues to grow and the India-U.S. ties are one of the consequential relationships, a senior State D...

 1.India was among 32 countries that abstained as the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday calling for an end to the war in Ukraine, with India’s envoy to the world body saying the move wasn’t enough to achieve the goal of a lasting peace.A total of 141 member states voted in favour of the resolution at an emergency special session hours before the conflict entered its second year, while seven countries, including Russia, Belarus and North Korea, voted against it.-hindustantimes.com 2.The United States (US) President Joe Biden has nominated corporate leader Ajay Banga, vice chairman of General Atlantic and a former president and chief executive of MasterCard, to be the next president of the World Bank. The nomination comes at a time when the Bank is in the middle of an ambitious internal transformation. 3.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to India next week to attend the meeting of G20 foreign ministers and meet senior Indian officials to reaffirm Ameri...

 1.Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who also holds the finance portfolio, will travel to India this week to attend the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meetings in Bengaluru. The Department of Finance Canada announced that she will be in India from February 23 to 25. “At these meetings, the Deputy Prime Minister will work with Canada’s international partners to address global challenges, including the economic impacts of Putin’s illegal war, elevated inflation, climate change, international tax fairness, and global sovereign debt challenges,” a release said.-hindustantimes.com 2.Six people were killed in an earthquake which struck the border region of Turkey and Syria, CNN Turk reported on Tuesday, two weeks after a larger quake killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes. Monday's quake, this time with a magnitude of 6.4, was centred near the southern Turkish city of Antakya and was felt in Syria, Egypt an...

  1.Another earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on Monday, just two weeks after the area was devastated by a larger quake that killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes.Monday’s quake, this time with a magnitude of 6.4, was centred near the southern Turkish city of Antakya and was felt in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon.It struck at a depth of 10 km, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.-theindianexpress.com 2.President Joe Biden's surprise visit Monday morning to wartime Kyiv began in the dead of night at a military airport hangar outside Washington.At 4:00 am (0900 GMT) Sunday -- unbeknown to the world's media, the Washington political establishment or American voters -- the 80-year-old Democrat boarded an Air Force Boeing 757, known as a C-32.The plane, a smaller version of the one US presidents normally use on international trips, was parked well away from where Biden would usually board. And a...

1.US Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accused Russia of committing "crimes against humanity" in Ukraine and Russian forces of conducting "widespread and systemic" attacks on the country's civilian population.She made the comments at the Munich Security Conference, days ahead of the one-year anniversary of Moscow sending its forces into Ukraine, unleashing war in Europe for the first time in decades.-livemint.com 2.A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Japan's Hokkaido island, Reuters reported.A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Japan's Hokkaido, Reuters reported Monday citing EMSC. The report earlier stated the magnitude of the quake to be 5.5, however it said Paris-based EMSC revised its readings later.-hindustantimes.com 3.The UAE Federal Authority for Identity, Customs and Ports Security announced fifteen new updates in the smart services system, according to a report by Emirates News Agency (WAM). The updates come as part of a plan to develop the s...

  1.A massive earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hit the north west of Wellington, New Zealand on Wednesday. According to preliminary data, the quake was located at a moderately shallow depth of 57.4 km. The earthquake struck at 7.38pm at a depth of 76km. It was centred 50km north-west of Paraparaumu. Within 15 minutes, over 31000 people reported on GeoNet that they had felt the earthquake.-hindustantimes.com 2.Marking one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, the UN General Assembly will vote next week on a draft resolution stressing "the need to reach, as soon as possible, a comprehensive, just and lasting peace" in line with the founding United Nations Charter. It again demands Moscow withdraw its troops and calls for a halt to hostilities. The 193-member General Assembly is likely to vote next Thursday after two days of speeches by dozens of states to mark the Feb. 24 anniversary of the start of the war.-hindustantimes.com 3.Ahead of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to India l...