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North Korea: North Korean leader Mr. Kim Jong Un convened a crucial party conference to talk about agricultural growth in response to reports of “grave” food shortages in the impoverished nation. These meetings typically only take place once or twice a year, but the plenary is held barely two months after the previous one, which also had an agricultural theme. There have been growing rumours that North Korea may currently be experiencing severe food shortages due to the discussions on agriculture’s unusually high frequency. In order to “analyse and review… the programme for the rural revolution in the new era,…

United States: Mr. Elon Musk has accused the media of being racist towards white and Asian people in the wake of criticism against a well-known cartoonist who made sexist remarks about Black people. Mr. Musk, the CEO of Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX, made the remarks after several US newspapers stopped running the “Dilbert” comic strip after its writer Scott Adams made anti-Black remarks. “For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians, same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America. Maybe they can try not being racist.”…

United States: Everything Everywhere All at Once has dominated the Screen Actors Guild awards, winning four major awards and breaking the record for most wins for a single film. With four wins, Everything Everywhere All at Once has broken the record for most SAG awards won by a single film ever since the awards began in 1995, passing four films, which won three awards. The multiverse fantasy film with the story plot of a Chinese-American family undergoing a tax audit who end up fighting a universe-hopping supervillain won best actress for Ms. Michelle Yeoh, best supporting actor for Mr. Ke…

China: A new report has stated that China has approved the construction of another 106 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity in 2022, which is four times higher than 2021 and the highest since 2015. According to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor (GEM), over the year, 50 GW of coal power capacity went into construction across the country, up by more than half compared with the previous year, driven by energy security considerations. “The speed at which projects progressed through permitting to construction in 2022 was extraordinary, with many projects sprouting up,…

Espoo, Finland: Nokia announced plans to alter its brand identity for the first time in nearly 60 years, complete with a new logo while the manufacturer of telecom equipment concentrates on ambitious growth. The word Nokia is represented by five different shapes in the new logo. Depending on the purpose, the previous logo’s signature blue colour has been replaced with a variety of colours. Chief Executive Mr. Pekka Lundmark devised a three-stage strategy in 2020 after assuming leadership of the faltering Finnish business. The stages were reset, accelerate, and scaled. Mr. Lundmark stated that the second stage has started now…

Jordan: Israeli and Palestinian officials have pledged to de-escalate surging violence and issued a joint statement in which Israel stated it would halt discussions about new settlement units in the occupied West Bank for four months. The meeting agreed to support confidence-building steps and “work towards a just and lasting peace.” In addition to the Israeli and Palestinian delegations, senior US, Jordanian, and Egyptian officials attended the meeting held in Aqaba, Jordan. The Israeli and Palestinian sides noted in their statement that they would work closely to prevent “further violence” and “reaffirmed the necessity of committing to de-escalation on the ground.”…

France: The French President Mr. Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will visit China in April 2023 to seek the Chinese government’s help to end the Russia-Ukraine War. The announcement came after China published a 12-point position paper that called for a ceasefire and a “political settlement” to end the Russia-Ukraine War. “The fact that China is engaging in peace efforts is a good thing. Peace is possible only if Russian aggression is halted, troops are withdrawn, and the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine and its people is respected,” the French President noted. “China must help us put pressure on Russia so…

Ireland: The Prime Minister of Ireland Mr. Leo Varadkar has stated that the United Kingdom and the European Union are inching towards concluding talks on revising post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland. Momentum has been building for weeks for a deal to ease checks on trade that were introduced under the Northern Ireland Protocol, the arrangements agreed to avoid a hard border with EU member Ireland when the United Kingdom exited the EU in 2020. “I think the talks on reforming the protocol are inching towards a conclusion. Certainly, the deal isn’t done yet, but I do think we are…

Australia: The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has attended Sydney’s 45th Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, becoming the first sitting prime minister to join the parade, which celebrates and continues to push for equality for the LGBTQIA+ community. The parade, under the theme “Gather, dream, amplify,”  began with hundreds of thousands of people watching the 12,500 participants dance their way up Oxford Street. The parade started with the Dykes on Bikes and was followed by the 78ers, activists who were part of a protest in 1978 that started the tradition of the Mardi Gras parade.  This was followed by a…

Italy: After a winter with little snowfall, it is more likely than ever that Italy will experience another terrible drought. As Venice struggles with dry canals, a walkway in Lake Garda is exposed. In contrast to the Alps, where snowfall has been less than half typical, Lake Garda in northern Italy has had record-low water levels, allowing people to stroll across an exposed path to the island of San Biagio. Lack of water raises concerns about hydropower, drinking water supply, and crop yields. However, exceptionally low tides are making it impossible for gondolas, water taxis, and ambulances to navigate parts…