The White House announced on Thursday that US President Joe Biden will meet his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa this month. The administration considers bringing African nations closer to the US when South Africa and most of its neighboring countries have taken a neutral stand on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The announcement of the September 16 visit followed close post-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to South Africa last month, in which he stated the Biden government sees the 54 nations of Africa as "equal partners" in tackling global issues. However, South Africa
The governor of Arizona, Dough Ducey, arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday on a trip that is focused on securing critical chips that are the focal point of the inflamed tech rivalry between the United States and China. Ducey is expected to meet the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, as well as business tycoons and university representatives in the semiconductor industry during his three-day visit to the self-ruled island. He becomes the latest US politician to visit Taiwan after recent trips by the US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, and some US senator
Bali, the capital of Indonesia, hosted a meeting of senior officials from the Group of 20 major (G20) economies, to discuss climate talks. Indonesian cited that failure to work together to reduce emissions would push our planet toward “unchartered territory”. Indonesia’s Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said countries must come together to address global warming or witness the planet pushed to a point “where no future will be sustainable”. “It is our responsibility to be part of the solution. We build bridges, not walls,” she said. The G20 climate meeting was held a
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will be on a three-day visit to the United Arab Emirates from August 31 to carry out a review of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries. Mr. Jaishankar, alongside his UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will review the partnership during the 14th India-UAE Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) and the third India-UAE Strategic Dialogue. "These meetings will provide an opportunity to both the ministers to review the entire spectrum of comprehensive strategic partnership between India and UAE and regional and glo
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will go on a three-day trip to Uzbekistan on Tuesday for SCO Defence Ministers' meet aiming to broaden the defense partnership with Eurasia. In September, Singh is planning to tour Egypt for a long-awaited bilateral engagement that has received enormous attention since last year. Singh will meet his Chinese and Russian counterparts at the SCO meet. The meeting held in the countdown to the SCO Summit gathers importance amid current geopolitical stress. He will also meet the defense Minister of Uzbekistan, Lieutenant General Bakhodir Kurbanov. Furthermore, t
Israel has launched flights allowing Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to fly abroad from an airport in the Negev region in Southern Isreal. The first flight, which had a tourist group from the West Bank consisting of doctors, pharmacists, and their families, took off on Monday from Ramon Airport to Larnaca Airport in Cyprus. Ghassan Olyan, the Israeli government’s activities coordinator in the Palestinian territories, said that the Palestinian's travel from the West Bank through an Israeli airport “is historic and unprecedented. It was a dream and became a reality.” How
China and India could become world leaders in “clean” hydrogen, according to Jane Nakano, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. However, Nakano found China is still making and using gray hydrogen — a type of hydrogen obtained from natural gas and produced from fossil fuels and is the least renewable form of hydrogen. She also said that the hydrogen market is not big at present and that it will take time to commercialize it. "I think both China and India have potential to become major powers… not just as a potential supplier and also expo
Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have stressed the importance of strengthening joint Arab action and Arab unity to address the challenges facing the Arab world. On Sunday, Egypt's presidential spokesman Bassam Rady said that both leaders discussed both regional and international issues during their meeting at El Alamein, a coastal city in northern Egypt. During their meeting at El Alamein, a coastal city in northern Egypt, the two leaders also exchanged views on both international and regional issues, Egypt's presiden
On Friday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met envoys of Latin American and Caribbean countries. The focus of the meeting was to boat overall bilateral ties ahead of Jaishankar’s visit to South America. He tweeted on his official handle, “Pleasure to host Ambassadors in New Delhi from the Group of Latin America and the Caribbean countries- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican, Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, and Uruguay”. He further added that there is a lot of potential for growing the cooperation between the nations and
On Wednesday, information released by the country's Finance Ministry, Japan resumed its purchases of Russian oil in July. Due to the sanctions related to Ukraine, imports of Russian crude fell to zero in June. Despite not disclosing the exact volume, the oil ministry said July imports from Russia were 65.4% lower than last year. In July 2021, LNG imports from Russia decreased by 26.1%, while coal imports decreased by 40.1%. The price of global commodities rose 45.1% despite the decline in physical volumes of Russian fuel exports to Japan last year. Tokyo will gradually reduce its dep