International news brief: PM Modi in Germany for G7 summit, Russia to send Belarus nuclear-capable missiles

International

oi-Deepika S

Moscow,
Jun
26:
G7
summit
kicks
off
in
Germany
under
shadow
of
Ukraine
war
Russia
to
send
nuclear-capable
missiles
to
Belarus.
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Russia
to
send
Belarus
nuclear-capable
missiles

Russia
intends
to
supply
nuclear-capable
Iskander-M
missile
systems
to
Belarus
in
the
coming
months,
President
Vladimir
Putin
said
on
Saturday.

“In
the
coming
months,
we
will
transfer
to
Belarus
Iskander-M
tactical
missile
systems,
which
can
use
ballistic
or
cruise
missiles,
in
their
conventional
and
nuclear
versions,”
Putin
said
in
a
broadcast
on
Russian
television
at
the
start
of
his
meeting
with
Belarusian
strongman
Alexander
Lukashenko
in
Saint
Petersburg.

Monkeypox
is
not
international
health
emergency:
WHO

The
World
Health
Organization
(WHO)
on
Saturday
said
monkeypox
was
not
a
“public
health
emergency
of
international
concern.”

Stopping
short
of
declaring
it
a
public,
international
emergency,
WHO
Director-General
Tedros
Adhanom
Ghebreyesus
said
on
Twitter:
“The
response
requires
urgent
coordinated
action
now
to
stop
the
further
spread
of
monkeypox
virus,
using
public
health
measures
and
ensuring
health
tools
are
available
to
at-risk
populations
and
shared
fairly.”

Iran
and
EU
say
Vienna
nuke
talks
will
resume
in
coming
days

The
European
Union
and
Iran
agreed
to
resume
negotiations
in
Vienna
in
the
coming
days
over
Tehran’s
tattered
nuclear
deal
with
world
powers.
The
agreement
could
help
relieve
tensions
after
the
talks
stalled
for
months,
while
Iran
enriches
uranium
closer
than
ever
to
weapons-grade
levels
under
decreasing
international
oversight.

Pope
hails
families,
blasts
”culture
of
waste” after
Roe

Pope
Francis
celebrated
families
and
urged
them
to
shun
“selfish”
decisions
that
are
indifferent
to
life
as
he
closed
out
a
big
Vatican
rally
a
day
after
the
US
Supreme
Court
ended
constitutional
protection
for
abortion.
Francis
didn’t
refer
to
the
ruling
or
explicitly
mention
abortion
in
his
homily.
But
he
used
the
buzzwords
he
has
throughout
his
papacy
about
the
need
to
defend
families
and
to
condemn
a
“culture
of
waste”
that
he
believes
is
behind
the
societal
acceptance
of
abortion.

PM
Modi
in
Germany

Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
on
Sunday
departed
for
Germany
to
attend
the
G7
Summit,
scheduled
from
June
26-27,
where
he
will
hold
meetings
with
over
12
world
leaders
and
will
have
over
15
hectic
engagements.

PM
Modi
will
also
speak
at
an
Indian
community
event
in
Munich,
which
is
expected
to
be
the
largest
such
programme
post-COVID-19.

What
happened
in
Russia’s
war
in
Ukraine
on
Saturday

British
Prime
Minister
Boris
Johnson
on
Saturday
urged
fellow
G7
leaders
not
to
“give
up”
on
Ukraine
four
months
into
Russia’s
war.
He
also
pledged
fresh
financial
support
for
Kyiv.

In
a
late-night
video
address,
Ukrainian
President
Volodymyr
Zelenskyy
said
his
country
had
been
hit
by
45
Russian
missiles
over
the
previous
24
hours,
which
he
described
as
a
cynical
attempt
to
break
Ukrainians’ spirits.

The
Ukrainian
city
of
Sievierodonetsk
in
Luhansk
Oblast
is
now
completely
under
Russian
control,
a
senior
official
from
Russia’s
Defense
Ministry
has
said.