World News in Brief: June 23

India and Bangladesh signed 10 pacts on Saturday during Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's state visit to India.
Flights departing the UK's Manchester Airport faced cancellations and severe delays on Sunday after a power cut in the area caused widespread disruption, an airport spokesperson said.
Flights departing the UK's Manchester Airport faced cancellations and severe delays on Sunday after a power cut in the area caused widespread disruption, an airport spokesperson said.

* Emperor Naruhito and his wife began a week long trip to Britain on Saturday, during which they will visit Oxford University where they both studied and attend a banquet with King Charles.

* Cambodia and the World Health Organization (WHO) have vowed to further enhance cooperation in public health, said a Cambodian foreign ministry's news release on Sunday.

* The first high-level dialogue under the China-Germany dialogue and cooperation mechanism on climate change and green transition was held in Beijing on Saturday.

* Moscow may change the timing for use of its nuclear weapons if threats against Russia increase, the RIA state news agency cited Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the Russian lower house's defence committee, as saying on Sunday.

* Russia will give adequate response if the United States closes Russia's visa center, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Saturday.

* Recent drone attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces on the city of Energodar, home to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), have raised serious concerns about the safety of the nuclear facility, local authorities said on Saturday.

* Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has urged communities and stakeholders to work together to create opportunities for all young school-leavers, adding that being a school dropout should not carry a stigma.

* Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif approved Saturday a re-invigorated and re-energized national counter-terrorism campaign.

*The Egyptian government is set to ban the operation of 16 travel agencies for arranging "fraudulent" Hajj trips to Saudi Arabia for unregistered pilgrims.

* A Long March-2C rocket, carrying an astronomical satellite jointly developed by China and France, lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday afternoon.

* The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Sunday completed its Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) technology demonstration by carrying out its third and final consecutive success in the RLV Landing Experiment (LEX), the space agency announced in an official statement.

* The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police arrested 22 terrorists during 152 separate operations in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Friday night, said a spokesperson on Saturday.

* Thousands of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday to mark the 20th birthday of Naama Levy, who has been held hostage in Gaza since Oct. 7, and to call for an immediate ceasefire in the war with Palestinian militant group Hamas.

* A claim by Yemen's Houthi group on Saturday that its forces had attacked the U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea is false, two U.S. officials told Reuters.

* A militia killed at least 23 people in attacks on several villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province in recent days, local authorities said on Saturday.

* China's National Meteorological Center has renewed an orange alert for rainstorms and issued a blue alert for severe convective weather Sunday morning.

* The water levels of major rivers across Mongolia have exceeded the warning threshold due to continuous downpours, the National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring said Sunday.

* An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck near the coast of Venezuela on Sunday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 93 km (57.79 miles).

* The ongoing bird flu outbreak at U.S. dairy farms has heightened concerns among public health experts as more dairy herds test positive for the virus in recent months.

* Emergency services with helicopters, drones and rescue dogs searched on Saturday for three people who were missing after violent downpours caused floods and landslides in southwestern Switzerland.

* At least four people were killed as tropical storm Alberto passed through Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon, due to heavy rains and other accidents caused by the weather, local authorities said Friday.

Reuters/Xinhua/VNA