Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to merge its diplomatic and aid departments. He said that a combined department would better promote the interests of the nation without cutting spending on overseas projects. The Prime Minister said the move was aimed at removing the false divide between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development.
In the wake of the coronavirus ravaging the labour market, the number of people on British company payrolls dropped by more than 600,000 in April and May. Vacancies plunged by the most on record, according to official data.
With British businesses expressing concerns over the mandate to maintain a two-metre gap between customers, which is crippling their survival chances in the downturn due to COVID-19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would do everything he could to get the country back to normal as soon as possible without risking lives.
In what is seen as sabre-rattling by Pyongyang, which warned of action if defector groups continued to send propaganda leaflets into the country, North Korea blew up a building housing the joint liaison office set up in 2018 in a border town. Until the spread of the coronavirus, the building was used by officials from both North and South Korea to explore ways to foster ties between the two nations.
One officer and two soldiers of the Indian army were killed in a “violent faceoff” on the contested border with China, the first such incident in decades between the two nuclear neighbours. The latest incident took place in the Galwan Valley in the mountainous region of Ladakh, said a statement of the Indian army.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam exhorted those opposed to Beijing’s plan to impose national security legislation in the financial hub to stop “smearing” the effort. Lam said those who did so were “the enemy of the people”.
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