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China is asserting Soverignity over East China Sea particularly in Senkaku islands , which are controlled by Japan, it pushes claims in the South China Sea leading to heightened tensions with SE Asian countries

🔆India to host ITU-WTSA24

✅The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will be held in New Delhi from October 14 to 24, 2024.

✅This will be the first time in the history of ITU that event is happening in Asia-Pacific region.

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🔳Romania, Bulgaria will join EU's Schengen area on January 1, 2025

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✅What is happening in DRC?

🅾️Hutu-Tutsi Conflict: Longstanding ethnic struggle dating back to colonial rule under Germany & Belgium, where Tutsis were given administrative dominance.

🅾️1959 Revolution: Hutus revolted against Tutsi rule, leading to longstanding tensions.

🅾️1994 Rwandan Genocide: Triggered by the assassination of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana (a Hutu); led to mass killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

🅾️M23 Origins: Named after March 23, 2009 peace deal, which they claim was violated by the DRC government.

🔰Great Barrier Border: Strategic location for cross-border insurgency.

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