India is hosting the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting. Fractured east-west relations over the conflict in Ukraine and increasing concerns about China's global aspirations are set to dominate the meeting.The meeting is particularly crucial for India's hopes to use its chairmanship of the group to leverage its position on the global stage and adopt a neutral stance on Ukraine. After a welcome dinner yesterday, the main meetings are being held today.

G20 Meet : Indian PM Modi flags deep global divisions

The PDP's Atiku Abubakar and Labour's Peter Obi are the main opposition presidential candidates in the elections held on Saturday. Opposition parties in Nigeria have called for the presidential election to be scrapped, describing it as a sham.

NIGERIA ELECTIONS: What we know so far

The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting that concluded in Bengaluru, India on Saturday failed to issue a joint statement, and the foreign ministers of G20 will meet against this backdrop.

G20 Meet: Ukraine remains the bone of contention

India hosts one of the largest G-20 Foreign Ministers meet under its presidency in New Delhi. G20 Foreign Ministers meeting under India's G20 presidency will be held tomorrow, March 2. This will be the second ministerial meeting held under India's presidency.

India hosts G20 Foreign ministers meet in Delhi

Nigeria announced initial results on Sunday after a tight election for the presidency of Africa’s most populous nation, marked by widespread voting delays and early accusations of attempts to manipulate ballot counts. Nearly 90 million were eligible to vote on Saturday for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, with many hoping a new leader would do a better job tackling insecurity, economic malaise and growing poverty.

Nigeria presidential polls: Delay in results sparks malpractice worries

Nigeria's poll panel has started announcing state-by-state results from the presidential election. A historically tight poll has energised Africa's most populous nation. There have been reports of violence and intimidation, though not on the scale of previous elections. Votes for the presidency are being tallied by hand, and results are being uploaded online to the election commission's central database. According to initial tallies on Monday, Nigeria's ruling party candidate, Bola Tinubu has taken an early lead in the race for the presidency.

Nigeria Elections 2023: Opposition parties allege fraud

Quiet quitting was all the rage in 2022 when workers around the world displayed their anger toward stagnating wages by choosing not to do anything more than what's absolutely necessary to keep their jobs. Watch video to know more.

Are you being 'quiet hired' at your job?

Vikram Chandra brings you a quick round-up of all top headlines and international breakings from all across the globe.

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Nigerians will head to the polls Saturday in a fiercely-contested presidential vote that analysts say is too close to call. It will be the largest democratic exercise on the continent as Africa’s most populous nation picks a new president.

Nigeria goes to poll on February

#Gravitas | Is the Ukraine war set to escalate further? In his state of the nation address, Putin warned Western leaders that 'Russia cannot be defeated'. How do we view this warning? @mollygambhir reports.

Gravitas: Putin's biggest warning to the West

Here we bring you a quick round-up of all latest news, top headlines and international breakings from all across the globe, stay tuned with Gravitas for more!

Gravitas Global Headlines: Air India goes on a hiring spree | Adani- Hindenburg saga continues

#Gravitas | The brother of Qatar's emir Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al Thani has submitted a $6 billion bid to acquire Manchester United, as per Bloomberg. The proposed club takeover will be the biggest in football's history. | @mollygambhir explains

Gravitas: Are gulf states using football clubs for geopolitics?

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan is planning to convert for former foreign military bases into special economic zones to promote economic activities. Acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar held a cabinet meeting in Kabul to discuss plans with officials. Watch to know more.

Taliban plans to turn Foreign Military Bases into Special Economic Zones

#Gravitas | A New York Times' journalist last week had a two-hour-long conversation with Microsoft Bing's yet-to-be-released chatbot. During the interaction, the chatbot expressed its desires to 'destroy' all it could and turn into a human. | @mollygambhir explains

Gravitas: Microsoft's yet-to-be-released chatbot goes rogue

Indian-American Neal Mohan is set to be the new You tube CEO. A growing number of global giants have Indian-origin CEO's. @mollygambhir tells you why

Gravitas: What makes Indian-origin CEO's so sought-after?

#Gravitas | Is China spying on the Andaman & Nicobar Islands? In January 2022, a mysterious 'sphere-shaped object' was spotted near the islands. The authorities are yet to provide a logical explanation. @mollygambhir reports.

Gravitas: Did China send a 'spy balloon' to the Andamans?

Blue ticks have become synonymous with a status symbol in society. Thus, by following the footsteps of Twitter, meta has now come up with its very own verification system called "Meta Verified", which shall enable users to get verified on both Instagram and Facebook.

Trending on WION | Meta to launch its blue verified subscription service for Insta and Facebook

Nigeria will hold general elections on Saturday, February 25, 2023, for presidential and National Assembly elections. Elections for 28 of the 36 governorships and State Houses of Assembly will follow on Saturday, March 11. The elections mark 24 years of uninterrupted democracy—the longest span in Nigeria’s history.

Nigeria goes to polls on 25th February

Gautam Adani's net worth dropped to less than $50 billion for the first time in several years, with Forbes and Bloomberg valuing him at $48 billion and $49.1 billion, respectively. Following which, he slipped to 25th place in the Forbes and Bloomberg real-time billionaires lists.

Gautam Adani slips to 25th spot in Forbes, Bloomberg rich list with net worth below $50 billion

Facebook's algorithm has automatically created over 100 pages for US-designated terrorist groups like Islamic State and Al-Quaeda, according to a new report by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP).

FB algorithm bypassed to create terror pages

For about 200 hours, two Turkish brothers entombed under the rubble of a collapsed building in the earthquake-devastated city of Kahramanmaras held on, rationing bodybuilding supplements, drinking their own urine, swallowing gulps of air.

Gasps of air, protein powder and miraculous rescues from Turkey earthquake

Ever since the Feb. 6 earthquake decimated swaths of Turkey and Syria, survivors have gathered outside destroyed houses and apartments, refusing to leave.

Turkey- Syria earthquake: Survivors express their sadness

Protestors have claimed that the proposed changes would curtail judicial independence, promote corruption and put civil and minority rights at risk in Israel. Israeli lawyer, activist and politician, Simcha Rothman speaks to WION more on this.

Israeli lawyer, activist and politician, Simcha Rothman speaks to WION

G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant and United Nations Resident Coordinator Shombi Sharp today [17th Feb] attended the Model G20 Discussion - 'Youth For LiFE' in Delhi, India.

India: G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant, UN Resident Coordinator attend Model G20 discussion

Over eight people have been killed as New Zealand continues to reel under cyclone Gabrielle. Officials say the death toll is likely to rise as emergency services contact hundreds of communities. @mohammed11saleh brings you this report.

New Zealand reels under cyclone Gabrielle

A leopard that was on the loose in a private housing society in Pakistan's Islamabad was finally contained after more than five hours. It was a pet leopard that escaped from a house in Pakistan capital and roamed the streets for hours before being shot with a sedation dart. @mohammed11saleh brings you this report.

Pakistan: Pet leopard roams streets for hours before being caught

A teenage girl was pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey more than 10 days after an earthquake that has killed more than 39,000 people in the country and neighboring Syria, as families of those still missing await news of their fate.

Teenager rescued from rubble in Turkey 10 days after earthquake

Nigeria's central bank has extended the deadline to exchange old banknotes for redesigned ones. There have been long queues at some banks as Nigerians have struggled to meet the original deadline.

Nigeria extends deadline to exchange old cash

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on February 17 a fresh plea of a Congress leader seeking investigation under the supervision of a sitting apex court judge against the Adani Group of companies in light of the allegations made by the US-based Hindenburg Research.

India's top court to hear plea against Adani

People in Nigeria have taken to sleeping outside banks. They want to be among the first in line to get notes from the cash machine once it is loaded up in the morning.

Nigeria : Anger and chaos outside banks due to Naira shortage

As per reports, Turkey’s Chamber of Geological Engineers had given the government warnings time after time about just such a disaster as that caused by the recent 7.8 magnitude earthquakes.

Did Turkish authorities ignore warnings?

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