JournaBulletin - Global - Week 27

World this Week

Here is a summary of the top international news last week

Sri Lanka Crisis: Soldiers Permitted to Use Force to stop the damage to property and life.  

Sri Lanka Crisis: Soldiers Permitted to Use Force to stop the damage to property and life. [Photo Courtesy: AntanO]

People of Sri Lanka protesting against the government for mismanaging the Sri Lankan economy. On July 14, Sri Lankan army authorized the members of the armed forces and the police were allowed to exercise their force, to prevent the destruction of property and life. The Sri Lankan army take this decision after they refused acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe's directive to use forces on the protesters. The army said, we can’t exercise force in peaceful protest, but we will use minimum force if they became violent or damaged public property.  

Sri Lanka’s president Rajapaksha fled to the Maldives on July 13 and shortly after reaching Singapore, he submitted his resignation letter through email 

Pakistani Man Boiled His Wife in Cauldron  

 A Pakistani man intentionally killed and boiled his wife in the cauldron on July 13 in front of his six children. Police found Nargis’s body in a cauldron in a kitchen of a private school on Thursday in Gulshan -e-Iqbal area. Ashiq worked as a watchman in the school and fled away with three of his children and their 15-year-old daughter called the police to inform them about this terOver the last week, Canada now has 477 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the country. Since July 4, the case numbers are increasing that a total of 177 new cases which leads to a 59% rise in monkeypox.  

Quebec continues the highest number of cases, with 285 cases as of July 13 up from 211 cases last week. Ontario also saw a high number of cases, from 77 cases as of July 4 to now confirmed 156 cases. British Columbia saw an increase in cases this week from four cases to 29 cases.  

James Webb’s Telescope Delivers Spectacular images  

James Webb’s Telescope Delivers Spectacular images [Photo Courtesy: NASA]

James Webb’s space telescope sent his first science images. These images reveal the birth of stars the most distant galaxies that formed within less than a billion years of the Big Bang;  or the presence of biomarkers in the atmosphere of exoplanets (planets outside our solar system), only time can tell. NASA released these five pictures from about 700 images of the cosmos JWST collected soon after his launch on December 25, 2021. “Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known!” NASA administrator Bill Nelson aptly quoted these words of Carl Sagan at a worldwide online event.  

Forest fires engulfed in sweltering southwest Europe 

Forest fires engulfed in sweltering southwest Europe [Photo Courtesy: AP]

It is the second heatwave engulfing parts of southwest Europe in weeks. Scientists blame climate change and predict more frequent and intense episodes of extreme weather such as heatwaves and drought. 

In France, Greece, Portugal and Spain, blaze destroys thousands of hectares of land, forces thousands from their homes and kills several emergency personnel since last week 

Rishi Sunak will make good PM, says the U.K. Opinion Poll

Rishi Sunak will make good PM, says the U.K. Opinion Poll [Photo Courtesy: Simon Walker HM Treasury]

Almost half of the voters for the U.K.’s governing Conservative Party believe Rishi Sunak will make a good Prime Minister, according to the results of a new opinion poll on July 17. 

Sunak, 42, has topped the first two rounds of voting among Tory MPs last week and the next few rounds of voting in the coming week are set to narrow down the field further, with only two left in the race by Thursday. 

The poll puts Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in second place, with 39% backing her for Prime Minister and 33% in favour of Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt 

‘The Sunday Telegraph’ reports that the JL Partners poll of more than 4,400 people found that 48% of those who backed the Tories in the 2019 general election felt the British Indian former Chancellor would be a good Prime Minister. 

Author 

Debomita Dey