Morning news brief: Modi meets Kishida in Hiroshima, Kyiv faces overnight attacks, and more
Morning news brief
On the sidelines of the G7 summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida. The duodiscussed India's G20 presidency as well as Japan's G7 presidency. In other news, Moscow launched yet another overnight attack on the capital city of Kyiv. The military officials in Ukraine said air defence system remained active but debris led to fire on the roof of one of the residential buildings.
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PM Narendra Modi meets Japan's Kishida on sidelines of G7 in Hiroshima
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) leaders' summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on Saturday (May 20).
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Another 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked east of New Caledonia Saturday in the Pacific Ocean, the US Geological Survey said. This comes a day after a major quake of magnitude 7.7 hit the same area.
Russia intensifies attack on Ukraine overnight; Kyiv says air defence active
Loud explosions were heard as Kyiv came under heavy air attack from the Russian side overnight. Authorities on early Saturday informed that falling debris were reported in three districts of the capital city while a residential buildingroof caught fire.
G7 Summit: Biden 'looks forward' to meeting Ukraine's Zelensky, says White House
United States President Joe Biden "looks forward" to holding talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Hiroshima, stated the White House on Saturday, confirming the meeting of the two leaders on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
WATCH |Pakistani police besiege Imran Khan's home as deadline for him to hand over suspects expires
Pakistani police kept up their siege around the home of Imran Khan as a 24-hour deadline given to the former premier to hand over suspects allegedly sheltered inside expired on Thursday.