The Military govt of Myanmar has extended the state of emergency by 6 months till February 2023. Head of the military government General Min Aung Hlaing said that elections could be held only when the country was ‘stable and peaceful’.

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih is on a four-day visit to India from August 1, which will provide an opportunity to review the progress made in the wide-ranging partnership.

Sakurajima volcano, located on the Japanese island of Kyushu, erupted in the wee hours of 31 July, spewing rocks and ash around. While there aren’t any casualties reported so far, the eruption has prompted evacuations in the region.

The Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) and the Indian Vegetable Oil Producers’ Association (IVPA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand their cooperation in promoting the usage of palm oil.

A rare pink diamond discovered in Angola is thought to be the largest of its kind to be found in 300 years. The 170-carat stone, which weighs just 34 grams, has been named the ‘Lulo Rose’, after the alluvial mine where it was discovered. Alluvial means that the stones are recovered from a river bed.

India contributed USD 2.5 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).India is a dedicated donor to UNRWA, having given USD 20 million in support of core UNRWA services to Palestine refugees across the Middle East since 2018.

The European Union’s executive arm has approved a smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared its spread a global health emergency.The European Commission has extended the marketing authorisation for the company’s smallpox vaccine, Imvanex, to include protection from monkeypox” in line with a recommendation by the EU’s medicines watchdog.

India and Maldives on Wednesday signed MoU for judicial cooperation to accelerate court digitization and boost prospects for IT companies & start-ups in both countries. India was among the first to recognise the Maldives after its independence in 1965 and to establish diplomatic relations with the country.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Mutual Recognition of Academic Qualifications was signed between India and UK.In May 2021, during the Virtual Summit between Prime Ministers of India and UK, a comprehensive Roadmap to 2030 was adopted for an enhanced bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Both sides also agreed to a new Enhanced Trade Partnership. Education forms an important pillar of this roadmap. In light of India’s National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), the two sides agreed to expand educational by agreeing to a mutual recognition of academic qualifications.

The Modi government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Namibia to bring back cheetahs to India. The Asiatic cheetah was declared extinct in India in 1952.The plan to bring African cheetahs to India has been decades in the making. India had approached Namibia and South Africa to source cheetahs for the introduction plan.

In the United Kingdom, a national emergency has been declared after a red extreme heat warning was issued for the first time, as temperatures could hit 40 degrees Celsius. The heatwave originating in north Africa is spreading across Europe and has fuelled wildfires in Portugal, France and Spain.

The TIME magazine has named Kerala and Ahmedabad among the 50 extraordinary destinations to explore in its list of the World’s Greatest Places of 2022. Other cities that made to the list include Seoul, Buahan in Bali, Mandeira in Spain and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the first-ever I2U2 Virtual Summit along with the heads of state of Israel, the UAE, and the US July 14. I2U2 stands for India, Israel, the UAE, and the US, and was also referred to as the ‘West Asian Quad’ by Ahmed Albanna, Ambassador of the UAE to India. Its stated aim is to discuss “common areas of mutual interest, to strengthen the economic partnership in trade and investment in our respective regions and beyond”.

Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world's richest person, said that he was terminating his 44 billion dollar deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving leader of modern Japan, was gunned down while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country where guns are tightly controlled and political violence almost unthinkable.

Uganda, a country in Eastern Africa, has recently announced the discovery of a deposit of 31 million tonnes of gold ore, with extractable pure gold estimated to gross 320,000 tonnes worth over $12.8 trillion.

India and Armenia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on High Impact Community Development Projects in Armenia with financial and technical assistance from India.The MoU was signed at the 8th India-Armenia Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological, Cultural and Educational Cooperation (IGC) held in Yerevan.

Ukraine and Russia carried out their largest prisoner exchange since the start of the conflict on February 24. 144 Ukrainians aged 19 and 65 years returned home as a result of the exchange. Under the swap, Russia released 59 soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine, including 43 from the Azov regiment which fought for Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant.

A five-day UN Ocean Conference kicked off with the Kenya and Portugal being the co-hosts. Leaders from over 130 countries from across the world will deliberate for five days to find an international agreement on protecting the world’s oceans, seas and marine resources.

Iran has submitted an application to become a member of the BRICS, an Iranian official said. Iran, which holds the world’s second-largest gas reserves, wants to join the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken today said that the US would provide nearly 55 million dollars in additional immediate humanitarian assistance in response to last week's Afghanistan earthquake. He said, the new funding brings total US humanitarian assistance to over 774 million dollars in the last year.

The European Parliament granted European Union candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova.European Council President Charles Michel made the announcement after discussions among leaders of the EU's 27 member states.

India has dispatched 27 tonnes of emergency relief assistance in two flights for the people of Afghanistan in the wake of the tragic earthquake. The relief assistance consists of essential items including family ridge tents, sleeping bags, blankets and sleeping mats.

US Supreme Court has overturned a 50-year-old ruling that recognised a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 majority ruling, upheld a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.

Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) anounced a 600 billion dollar infrastructure initiative to help developing countries tackle climate change. The initiative is seen as the West's response to China's massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is facing the real risk of multiple famines this year. In video message to the Uniting for Global Food Security ministerial conference in Berlin, he said, 2023 could be even worse because of the growing shortage of food around the globe.

President Joe Biden signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades. The legislation will toughen background checks for the youngest gun buyers, keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders and help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged to be dangerous.

Sri Lanka has decided to amend the Minimum Age for Migrant Domestic Workers to 21 years. In January 2011, the Cabinet of the Sri Lankan government approved a proposal to raise the minimum legal age of employment for migrant domestic workers from Sri Lanka, making it 21 rather than 18.

Australia announced that it will provide 50 million US dollars to support Sri Lanka to meet urgent food and health care needs.Sri Lanka currently faces its worst economic crisis in seventy years, leading to shortages of food, medicine and fuel. Australia will contribute an immediate 22 million dollars to the World Food Programme for emergency food assistance to help three million people in Sri Lanka meet their daily nutritional needs.

Mongolia’s Khuvsgul Lake National Park has been added to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves of UNESCO. Khuvsgul Lake is located in the northern Mongolian province of Khuvsgul near the Russian border, holding nearly 70 per cent of Mongolia’s fresh water, or 0.4 per cent of the world’s total.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that he plans to attend the NATO summit, which is due to take place from June 28 to June 30 in Madrid, Spain.

The WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) took place from 12 to 17 June 2022 at WTO headquarters in Geneva.

Egypt hosted the Eighth Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians in Sharm El Sheikh today. The two-day conference was jointly organized by the House of Representatives and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).