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All India Radio AIR International News http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419687 INT Ukraine on Friday said it had downed a barrage of 21 Russian missiles and two attack drones overnight, in Moscow's most recent deadly wave of strikes targeting cities across the country. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419679 INT Dubai-based airline Emirates has unveiled its latest innovation, the world's first robotic check-in assistant named Sara. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419655 INT The United States will grant 115 million dollars in cooperation aid to El Salvador to slow migration from the Central American country. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419643 INT NATO leaders have declared China a constant security challenge and said the Chinese are working to undermine global order. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419641 INT British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced to delay the lifting of all restrictions in England till 19th of July as delta variant of COVID-19 spreads. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419635 INT External Affairs MInister Dr S Jaishankar met Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta today. In a series of tweets, Dr Jaishankar said India-Kenya partnership is an example of South-South cooperation. He said India is committed to working with Kenya to realise its Big Four priorities. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419628 INT The COVID 19 situation in Bangladesh showed deterioration on Monday with 54 deaths and 3050 fresh Corona Positive cases reported from the country in the last 24 hours. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419621 INT The trial of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has got underway, four months after a military coup removed the elected government from office. She is charged with owning unlicensed walkie-talkies and violating COVID restrictions. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419607 INT The government of Bangladesh has extended the closure of the land border with India for passenger travel till June 30 to contain the spread of the Corona virus in the country. However, the border will remain open for the movement of cargo between the two countries. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419602 INT Israel's new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has vowed to unite the nation frayed by four elections in two years of political stalemate. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419579 INT Israel's new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has vowed to unite the nation frayed by four elections in two years of political stalemate. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419575 INT Leaders of the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, the US and the European Union have reaffirmed shared belief in open societies, democratic values and multilateralism as foundations for dignity, opportunity and prosperity for all. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419580 INT In Switzerland, voters rejected key climate change measures in a popular vote. The climate proposal was one of several measures that Swiss voters cast their ballots nationwide yesterday. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419557 INT The COVID 19 situation in Bangladesh continued to remain worrying with the highest level of deaths in a day reported from the country on Sunday. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419540 INT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year reign is set to end as the country's Parliament, Knesset will vote on a new government today. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419534 INT Switzerland heads to the polls today in a batch of referendums which could see the country become only the second in the world to ban artificial pesticides. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419533 INT US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-Yong have reaffirmed a commitment between their countries and Japan to work closely towards the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419526 INT G7 leaders have launched a new global infrastructure initiative Build Back Better World (B3W) to help developing nations, countering China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419500 INT Saudi Arabia has restricted the annual Haj pilgrimage to its own citizens and residents for the second year running in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419470 INT Today is World Day Against Child Labour. The theme of this year's World Day Against Child Labour is: ‘Act now: end child labour.’ http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419499 INT Two blasts in buses killed seven people in western Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday. According to the Police, the explosions took place in a neighbourhood dominated by the minority Hazara community where similar attacks on buses earlier this month killed 12 civilians. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419502 INT The Pentagon on Friday announced a new package of 150 million US Dollars in military assistance for Ukraine that will include counter-artillery radar, electronic warfare equipment and counter-drone technology. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419497 INT The Group of Seven will seek to rival China’s multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative by announcing a global infrastructure plan to help developing nations. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419491 INT The meteorological department of Bangladesh has advised the maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra to hoist the local cautionary signal number 3 as a low pressure area has formed over the Northwest Bay and the adjoining coastal areas. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419486 INT The ongoing closures of educational institutions in Bangladesh has been further extended till June 30. The current closure of schools, colleges and universities was coming to an end on Saturday, June 12. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419464 INT About 33,000 severely malnourished children in the Tigray region of Ethiopia are at high risk of death, the UN children's agency Unicef has warned. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419451 INT UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged fellow world leaders to build back better after the COVID pandemic. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419448 INT United Nations Development Programme India has lauded the Aspirational Districts Programme as a very successful model of local area development. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419442 INT The European Medicines Agency, EMA today approved a new manufacturing site in France for the production of Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419441 INT More than three lakh 50 thousand people in Ethiopia's Tigray are suffering famine conditions, with millions more at risk. The United Nations agencies and aid groups blame the conflict for the worst catastrophic food crisis in a decade. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419438 INT Kenya has received a 750-million US Dollar loan from the World Bank to support its budget and help the East African economy recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419437 INT A week-long Indian Mango Promotion Programme began in Bahrain today. The Ministry of Commerce & Industry has said that 16 varieties of the fruit including three Geographical Indications certified are on display. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419432 INT The United States has repatriated 27 antiquities to Cambodia, including Hindu and Buddhist statues, after years of work by New York investigators to recover the smuggled artefacts. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419419 INT The death toll due to COVID 19 in Bangladesh crossed 13,000 on Friday with 43 deaths being reported over the last 24 hours. During this period, 2454 fresh corona cases were also reported in the country. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419410 INT The Border Security Force (BSF) on Thursday arrested a Chinese national at the border post in Milik Sultanpur of Malda district in West Bengal on the India-Bangladesh border. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419409 INT A new research by Chinese, British and Canadian researchers has found that thousands of wild animals were sold in markets in the Chinese city of Wuhan ahead of the Covid-19 outbreak. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419407 INT Three people including a child were shot dead in a grocery store in Florida on Thursday, the latest in a series of shootings in the southern US state. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419405 INT The Nigerian Government created its account on Indian microblogging platform Koo, days after the African country banned Twitter. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419392 INT The United States has repatriated 27 antiquities to Cambodia, after years of work by New York investigators to recover the smuggled artefacts. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419391 INT At least eight people were killed in explosions that shook the Yemeni city of Marib. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419378 INT Chinese authorities have not given any response so far on the visa facilitation to the Indians who have been inoculated with Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines, despite announcements made by its Embassy in New Delhi on 15th March in this regard. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419377 INT The largest reservoir in the US has dipped to its lowest ever level, officials say, as an extreme drought continues in the region. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419376 INT UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock has said there is famine in northern Ethiopia after the release of a UN-backed analysis of the situation. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419375 INT France is to scale down counter-terrorism operations in the Sahel region of West Africa after eight years. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419371 INT Pakistan's National Assembly has approved a bill allowing Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav to appeal his conviction in the high courts of the country. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419370 INT Myanmar's military authorities have charged deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi with corruption, the most serious charge laid against her till now. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419357 INT External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar held discussion with his Kuwait counterpart Dr. Ahmed Nasser Mohammed Al Sabah. In a series of tweets, Dr Jaishankar welcomed the openness to address the issues of Indian community in Kuwait. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419360 INT Leaders at the G-7 summit in UK will call for a new transparent investigation by the WHO into the origins of Coronavirus. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419354 INT Group of Seven, G7 leaders are meeting in Cornwall, England to discuss agreements on global taxes and COVID-19 vaccine distribution. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419347 INT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh has urged the Islamic scholars, teachers, political leaders and activists to make efforts to keep the youth away from the destructive path of militancy and terrorism. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419345 INT India is in touch with the Chinese side in order to seek an early resumption of travel by Indian citizens to China, especially for those who work or study there. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419343 INT The External Affairs Ministry today said the material seized last week in Bokaro, Jharkhand is not uranium and not radioactive. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419328 INT China’s national legislature has approved a new law against foreign sanctions, aimed at providing a legal basis for the country’s countermeasures against such actions. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419318 INT Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan today held a virtual meeting with Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia Mahendra Siregar. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419315 INT A military plane crashed near Mandalay in Myanmar killing 12 people onboard on Thursday morning. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419306 INT Fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi has been declared a prohibited immigrant in Dominica. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419303 INT President Joe Biden has revoked an executive order from his predecessor Donald Trump banning Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat in the US. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419285 INT The US government has agreed to pay about 1.2 billion US Dollars for 1.7 million courses of Merck’s experimental COVID-19 treatment, if it is proven to work in an ongoing large trial and authorized by US regulators. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419278 INT US President Joe Biden on Wednesday began his first trip abroad after becoming the President of America. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419267 INT The first edition of the two day Arab-India Energy Forum which was held in a virtual format concluded today. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419266 INT El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. President Nayib Bukele proposed the bill last week to embrace cryptocurrency. Sixty two lawmakers voted in favour of the bill, out of 84 votes cast. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419253 INT External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar had discussions with Federal Councillor of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis today. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419249 INT The COVID-19 infection continued to show an upward trend in Bangladesh as 2537 new Corona positive cases were detected in the country on Wednesday. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419234 INT External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar today met Qatari National Security Adviser Mohamed Bin Ahmed Al Mesned. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419218 INT The World Bank has predicted a GDP growth rate of 5.1 percent for Bangladesh in the financial year 2021-22 starting July this year. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419208 INT Thousands of protesting students held a school principal hostage over fears their degrees would be devalued, Chinese police said on Tuesday. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419179 INT A major outage affected a number of high profile websites including Amazon, Reddit and Twitch. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419163 INT Te COVID 19 cases and deaths in Bangladesh showed a sharp increase on Tuesday as 44 people died and 2322 fresh corona positive cases were reported in the country over the last 24 hours. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419138 INT US and Australian authorities hacked into an app used by criminals to read millions of encrypted messages, leading to hundreds of arrests of suspected organised crime figures in 18 countries. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419105 INT Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid was yesterday elected as the President of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419085 INT External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar has congratulated Foreign Minister of Maldives Abdulla Shahid on his election as President for 76th United Nations General Assembly. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419050 INT Two passenger trains collided in southern Pakistan today, killing at least 40 people and injuring dozens more. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419054 INT A prominent Chinese expert has said that Indian students may be allowed to return to China. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419049 INT Heavy rains lashed Sri Lanka, triggering floods and landslides that have killed at least 17 people and forced tens of thousands from their homes. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419048 INT India says, the world is combatting another serious emerging challenge of fugitive economic offenders and their assets flew across the national jurisdictions. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419047 INT One hundred former presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers have urged the Group of Seven, G7, rich nations to pay for global coronavirus vaccinations to help stop the virus mutating and returning as a worldwide threat. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419041 INT The High Commission of India in Dhaka has taken up the case for the entry of the Indian medical students who are scheduled to appear for their MBBS final professional examination in Bangladesh in June. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419011 INT The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) of Bangladesh has approved the second Chinese COVID 19 vaccine ‘CoronaVac’ manufactured by the Sinovac company. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419007 INT The death toll from one of the deadliest militant attacks in West African country, Burkina Faso has risen to 132 after armed assailants laid siege overnight to a village in the jihadist-plagued northeast of the country. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=419006 INT In Afghanistan, at least 11 civilians including four women and three children were killed when a roadside bomb struck a bus in the western province of Badghis on Saturday. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418992 INT The Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to transfer Covid-19 vaccine technology and to expand production abroad. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418987 INT In Nepal, a new Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court has been formed today to hear a bunch of petitions against the May 22 dissolution of the House of Representatives after differences among justices over its composition delayed the crucial hearing. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418984 INT The ongoing COVID 19 restrictions in Bangladesh have been extended till June 16. The Cabinet Division issued a notification to this effect on Sunday. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418981 INT Bangladesh has announced extension of the land border closure with India for two more weeks till June 14 in view of the ongoing Covid situation. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418980 INT The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) of Bangladesh has approved the second Chinese COVID 19 vaccine ‘CoronaVac’ manufactured by the Sinovac company. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has already approved the Sinovac corona vaccine on June 1. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418946 INT Asia Pacific Group (APG) of global terror funding watchdog - FATF has retained Pakistan on "enhanced follow-up" list. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418947 INT British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called upon G7 leaders to make a commitment to vaccinate the entire world against COVID-19 by the end of 2022 when they meet in Britain next week. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418942 INT Group of Seven (G7), a group of the world's richest nations, have reached a landmark deal to back a global minimum tax of at least 15 percent on multinational companies. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418933 INT The Group of Seven (G7) agreed yesterday to speed up cooperation on vaccine and therapeutic trials to tackle COVID-19 and future pandemics. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418915 INT In Sri Lanka, a group of climate and fishermen activists has filed a lawsuit against the government and operator of MV X-Press Pearl over the ship wreck that caused severe damage to the environment. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418913 INT US airline 'United' has announced plans to buy 15 new supersonic airliners and return to supersonic speeds to aviation in the year 2029. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418905 INT Bangladesh reported 43 deaths and 1447 new COVID 19 infections in the country since the last 24 hours on Saturday. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418904 INT The World Bank has temporarily paused payments to operations in Mali following a military coup. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418889 INT A controversy has arisen in Bangladesh over the issue of the price disclosure for the purchase of 15 million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID 19. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418886 INT Top American infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has called on China to release the medical records of nine people whose ailments might provide vital clues into whether COVID-19 first emerged as the result of a lab leak. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418872 INT US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that bans US entities from investing in many Chinese companies with alleged ties to defense or surveillance technology sectors. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418871 INT US has so far contributed 2 billion US dollars to GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, for COVAX facility, a global risk-sharing mechanism for pooled procurement and equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418870 INT Britain's medicines regulator has approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for use on 12 to 15 years old children, following similar clearances in the US and the EU. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418864 INT The government of Bangladesh will provide tax incentives to the companies which hire transgender people. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418861 INT Britain's medicines regulator has approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for use on 12 to 15 years old children, following similar clearances in the US and the EU. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418857 INT Belarus carriers will be banned from flying over European Union territory or having access to its airports from today. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418856 INT Top American infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has called on China to release the medical records of nine people whose ailments might provide vital clues into whether COVID-19 first emerged as the result of a lab leak. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418850 INT US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that bans US entities from investing in many Chinese companies with alleged ties to defense or surveillance technology sectors. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418841 INT The European Union has submitted to the World Trade Organization a plan it believes will more effectively broaden supply of COVID-19 vaccines than the intellectual property rights waiver backed by the United States. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418838 INT The number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low last year, as more couples put off marriage and starting a family amid a global pandemic. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418818 INT Senior United States officials met visiting Israeli Defence Minister Benjamin Gantz in Washington yesterday, reaffirming US commitment to Israel's security. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418811 INT Colombia approved the reopening of most large events it had banned to contain the pandemic, even with intensive care units likely to be full until the end of June and more than 90,000 dead from COVID-19. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418805 INT Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a third wave of Corona virus infections, with its epicentre in the capital, Kinshasa, one of Africa's most-populous cities. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418796 INT Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at a newly agreed coalition which looks set to remove him from power after 12 years as Prime Minister. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418795 INT France is halting joint military operations with Mali over last week's coup in the West African country. France said the suspension would continue until it received guarantees about a return to civilian rule in Mali. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418794 INT A series of hearings begins in London today aiming to gather evidence on whether the Chinese governments alleged human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region constitute a genocide. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418790 INT Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed grief over the demise of former President and Prime Minister of Mauritius, Padma Vibhushan Sir Anerood Jugnauth. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418778 INT US President Joe Biden is set to ban Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese tech and defence firms with alleged military ties. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418759 INT US Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other world leaders yesterday on US global allocation plan of Covid vaccines. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418755 INT The Bangladesh budget for the Financial Year 2022 has allocated Tk 10,000 crore to meet the emergency requirements arising out of the COVID pandemic in the country. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418748 INT India and Germany held bilateral consultations on UN issues today via video conference. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418731 INT Chinese social media is abuzz with skepticism, ridicule, and sorrow on the newly announced three-child policy in a bid to reverse the country's falling birth rate. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418728 INT Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla has said that India is working with several other countries in the World Trade Organization on a targeted and temporary waiver under TRIPS . http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418681 INT China’s President Xi Jinping has asked officials to strengthen the country's international communication to present an image of a "reliable, loveable and respectable China" in an attempt to repair the country’s image and win a battle of narratives with the west. http://newsonair.nic.in/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=418678 INT In United States, a Florida man yesterday became the second person to plead guilty for his role in storming the US Capitol on 6th of January this year.