Donald Trump will not attend the upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa. He is instead sending Vice President JD Vance. I will not go, said Trump on Friday. Instead, he is planning for next year – when he wants the meeting to be held at his own golf club in Miami.
World politicsThe EU's conservative party group is ready to take help from the far-right to quickly get through a first EU list of "safe countries" in asylum contexts.
WorldThousands of villages are uninhabitable and 300,000 people have been evacuated – just in the last 48 hours. In total, 1.3 million people have been taken to safety from the water masses in the Punjab province in Pakistan, near the border to India.
WorldDonald Trump's trade war may have played right into China's hands. When some of the world's most autocratic leaders met in Tianjin, it was Xi Jinping's show. As a "counterweight" to the US and the West, a new world order is emerging – with China at the center and various dictatorships on the flanks. I don't think you should underestimate the danger of this, says China expert Kristina Sandklef.
WorldRussia's president Vladimir Putin has spoken privately with India's prime minister Narendra Modi at the SCO summit in China. The conversation takes place a few days after Modi spoke with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyj.
World politicsThis year's diplomatic highlight in Xi Jinping's China has begun. At the summit, both the Russian leader Vladimir Putin and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi are present, in China for the first time in seven years. Xi and Modi started with a bilateral meeting.
World politicsIndia's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken on the phone with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, ahead of an upcoming meeting between Modi and Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
ConflictsAlmost half a million people have been forced to evacuate due to floods in eastern Pakistan.
WorldWhile many companies are worried about tariffs on imported goods to the USA, the Swedish electric boat manufacturer Candela is establishing production there. The focus is on states that – despite the president's opposition – are investing in green support.
BusinessThe film "Mother" is about a week in Mother Teresa's life when she lived and worked at a monastery in Calcutta, at the same time as she was waiting for an answer from the Vatican about permission to start her own order. The role of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and later canonized nun is played by Swedish Noomi Rapace.
TV & filmOver 1.2 million people are affected by the floods in Pakistan. This is stated by Marriyum Aurangzeb, minister in the Punjab region.
WorldHe knows what the telephone poles look like in Mexico, has a decent grasp of the area codes in Brazil and is familiar with more than 100 Russian cities. Now Hugo Holmryd Malmborg is taking on the world's best in the World Championship in Geoguessr.
SwedenPakistan has called in the army after major floods in the eastern parts of the country. The country accuses India of having worsened the situation with dam releases, which creates tensions between the neighbors.
WorldUSA's punitive tariffs against India have now come into force. Many goods will thus be subject to a tariff of 50 percent, among the highest that Donald Trump has introduced, as pressure for India to buy Russian oil.
BusinessForce Russia to the negotiating table, urges Finland's President Alexander Stubb his American counterpart Donald Trump.
ConflictsOver two billion people lack secure access to drinking water, according to the UN. Now the organization is warning that the goal of everyone on earth having access to drinking water is "increasingly out of reach".
WorldTens of thousands of people have been evacuated in eastern Pakistan after India has released water from overflowing dams and rivers to low-lying border areas.
WorldA number of pilgrims were killed and around 40 injured when a truck crashed into a tractor trailer in Indian Uttar Pradesh.
WorldIn the meeting with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyj on Monday, USA's president Donald Trump claimed that he had succeeded in ending six wars this year, without having to achieve a ceasefire first. But the reality is more complicated.
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