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During Friday’s meeting, the two sides reaffirmed their commitment to enhancing their bilateral relations, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).The Chinese party-government delegation arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday to attend anniversary celebrations held the following day, reports Yonhap News Agency.Led by Li Hongzhong, a member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo, the delegation was one of the first foreign groups to visit Pyongyang since North Korea implemented border lockdowns due to Covid-19 in early 2020, alongside a Russian delegation.Kim met the Russian delegation on Wednesday.On Friday, Kim expressed gratitude to China for its help during the…

At the same time, the official figures for the previous two quarters were corrected upwards, Xinhua news agency quoted Destatis as saying on Friday. Instead of shrinking by 0.5 per cent and 0.3 per cent respectively, the German economy contracted by 0.4 per cent in the final quarter of 2022 and 0.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year.”There are slightly positive trends in private consumption and investment, but this is not enough, and it is anything but satisfactory,” Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck said in a statement on Friday.German consumer prices are normalising…

As part of his wider visit to the South Pacific Region, Macron arrived in Colombo on Friday following which he held talks with his Sri Lankan counterpart Ranil Wickremesinghe.“President Macron reaffirmed France’s willingness and commitment to supporting Sri Lanka in its economic recovery. As the fourth-largest creditor to Sri Lanka, France pledged its assistance in the debt restructuring process, aiming for a positive outcome for the country,” the President’s Media Division (PMD) said in a statement.In a Twitter post following the discussions, the French leader said: “Sri Lanka and France are two nations in Indian Ocean sharing the same goal:…

On Friday, the tech billionaire posted a graph showing the platform’s growth and wrote: “X monthly users reach new high in 2023. Chart is 1/1 to yesterday. Also, this is after removal of a vast number of bots.”The number 541,562,214 is at the end of the chart.The company has also updated its iOS app on the App Store to replace the blue bird logo with the new X logo.While the blue bird is gone, the platform is still named Twitter on iOS.Musk had started hinting at the rebranding of Twitter as X on July 23 with a series of tweets,…

The Sunday rocketing mission will be the third commercial mission for ISROin 2023.“The countdown began at 5.01 a.m.,” a senior official of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS.The Indian space agency will be launching seven Singaporean satellites onJuly 30 at 6.30 a.m. using its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).The rocket will blast off from the first launch pad.If the mission turns out to be successful, ISRO would have launched 431foreign satellites from 36 countries since 1999.Looking back at the year, ISRO had two successful commercial launches. Thefirst one was the launch of 36 satellites belonging to the UK-based OneWebwith…

The incessant downpours and flyover constructions have led to massive jams in Kotputli and Shahpura on the National Highway-48, which connects Jaipur and Delhi.According to Jaipur Rural SP Rajeev Pachar, there has been jams spanning to around 10 km on both sides of the highway.”Hence its a request that people should take the Dausa Expressway and avoid waterlogged lanes which are blocking traffic at construction sites,” Pachar added. –IANSarc/ksk

Officials said since this year’s Amarnath Yatra started on July 1, more than 3.77 lakh people have performed the pilgrimage so far.”Another batch of 2,050 Yatris left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu for the Valley in an escorted convoy on Saturday.””Of these, 1,618 are male, 357 are female, 12 children, 54 Sadhus and 9 Sadhvis,” officials added.Since it started this year, till now 36 pilgrims have died during the Yatra.Pilgrims approach the Himalayan cave shrine either from the tradition south Kashmir Pahalgam route, which involves an uphill trek of 43 km from Pahalgam base camp or from the north…

“WFP is in the midst of a crippling funding crisis that is forcing us to scale back life-saving assistance right as acute hunger is hitting record levels,” Carl Skau, deputy executive director and chief operating officer of the WFP, told reporters on Friday at the UN Headquarters in New York.At least 38 of 86 WFP country operations have already cut, or plan to soon cut, the size and scope of life-saving food, cash and nutrition assistance programs, he said.In Afghanistan, the WFP was forced to cut rations from 75 to 50 per cent for communities facing emergency level of hunger…

A one-year-old girl died on Thursday in a displacement camp in Idlib after her health deteriorated due to extreme heat, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday.The infant and her family lived in a three-year-old tent in a camp hosting about 860 people. Partners on the ground reported that at least 165 tents in the camp lack proper thermal insulation to protect people from extreme heat and other weather conditions, OCHA added as quoted by Xinhua news agency report.”A plan, launched by the UN and its partners, to move displaced people in northwest Syria…

In a video posted on Friday on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)’s website, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said the paramilitary “can reach an agreement within 72 hours if the command of the Sudanese Army has changed”.At the beginning of the video, Dagalo appeared in a military vehicle surrounded by RSF soldiers before he addresses them, Xinhua news agency reported.He accused the Sudanese Army’s command of working according to instructions from the leaders of the former regime in Sudan.Sudan has been witnessing deadly clashes between the Sudanese Army and the RSF in Khartoum and other areas since April 15, resulting in over…