A meeting of finance chiefs of the Group of 20 leading economies ended on Saturday without a consensus, with Russia and China objecting to the description of the war in Ukraine in a final document. The meeting hosted by India issued the G-20 Chair’s summary and an outcome document stating that there was no agreement on the wording of the war in Ukraine.
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Cyclone Freddy become the longest-lasting tropical storm on record
President Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi has said that nearly half of his country has been damaged by Cyclone Freddy, which has killed hundreds of people and become the longest-lasting tropical storm on record. The president asked for help from the international community and said the structural destruction was vast. By Saturday, the death toll in Malawi stood at 438. The President said the damage is across 13 districts, almost half the country, and it is not just the numbers of our people who have lost their lives, but the damage and devastation.
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Police officers injured in wake of Southport’s deadly stabbing attack
Police officers have been injured in disorder outside a Southport mosque – with the chaos erupting in the wake of a knife attack that left three girls dead in the Merseyside town. A crowd of men, many wearing masks and hoodies, were embroiled in a running battle with officers outside the mosque on Tuesday evening.
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Zelensky meets Rishi Sunak
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak greets Volodymyr Zelenskiy as the Ukraine president arrives in the United Kingdom. The British offer to train Ukrainian pilots on modern Nato fighter jets is a carefully couched hint to the rest of Nato that at some point it may have to provide modern jets to help Ukraine defend its airspace from the Russian air force.
