Actress Alia Bhatt, who was recently appointed as the global brand ambassador for luxury fashion brand Gucci, made her first official appearance as the Gucci brand ambassador at the Gucci Cruise 2024, which is taking place at the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea.
Apart from her, stars including Lee Donghwi, Park Chanwook, Jung Kyungho, Cha Junhwan, Squid Game actor Lee Jung Jae, IVE member Leeseo, Ko Soyoung, Lee Soohyuk, Kim Hyesoo, and more came to grace the event in Seoul.
The 69th National Film Awards was announced on Thursday during a press conference by the Jury at the National Media Center New Delhi. The Jury members for National Film Awards handed over the list of awardees for feature, non-feature and best script category to Union I&B Minister Anurag Thakur. South Indian movie star Allu Arjun bagged the National Award for Pushpa 2. Soon after Allu was announced as the winner of the Best Actor Award, a video of him celebrating the moment with team Pushpa surfaced online.
#NationalAwards2023 #69thNationalAwards #NationalFilmAwards #AlluArjun #AliaBhatt #PankajTripathi #KritiSanon #Pushpa2 #RRR #GangubaiKathiawadi #Mimi #NationalAwardWinners
North Korea fired an N.Korea fires missile“unidentified” ballistic missile today as Kim Jong un held a rare meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "North Korea fires unidentified ballistic missile towards the East Sea," Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan. Japan also confirmed the firing of ballistic missiles, saying that at least two have fallen outside of Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone. The development comes as the North Korean dictator is in Russia with his top military officials to meet Putin for talks focused on defence cooperation.
#Kimmeetsputin #Northkoreamissilelaunch #Putinkimmeetingtoday
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Mohamed Muizzu emerged victorious in the Maldives' presidential election, securing a win in the second-round run-off against the incumbent Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. The election served as a crucial test for the Indian Ocean archipelago's evolving democracy and its diplomatic relations with both China and India, its traditional ally. At 45, Muizzu, leading a party associated with substantial Chinese loans and known for a crackdown on dissent during its previous tenure, will navigate the complex geopolitical dynamics shaping the nation's future.
#MaldivesElections #Muizzi #Solih, #IndiaChina
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Last-gasp moves to prevent a US government shutdown took a dramatic step forward Saturday, as Democrats overwhelmingly backed an eleventh-hour Republican measure to keep federal funding going for 45 days, albeit with a freeze on aid to Ukraine.
#USHouse #USHouseOfRepresentatives #Senate #JoeBiden #StopgapBill #USCongress #USCongressAvertsShutdown
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The British government, led by Defence Minister Grant Shapps, is considering deploying military instructors to Ukraine, supplementing the current practice of training Ukrainian armed forces in Britain or other Western countries. Avoiding a formal military presence in Ukraine to mitigate the risk of direct conflict with Russia, Britain has provided five-week military training courses to approximately 20,000 Ukrainians over the past year.
#Ukraine #TrainingSoldiers #Britain #UkraineRussiaWar
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Noting the remarkable progress in the India-US relationship, external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Sunday highlighted the significance of the alphabet 'I' in various collaborations between the two countries. The minister said many initiatives involving the two nations begin with the letter 'I' as he cited examples such as the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEEC) and the Indo-Pacific concept. Watch what he said.
#EAM #SJaishankar #Jaishankar #IndiaUSTies #IndiaUSRelations #IMEEC #IndoPacific #India #US #PMModi
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NATO member Romania reported a possible violation of its airspace during an overnight Russian attack in neighbouring Ukraine, saying it had not found debris on Romanian territory but would continue the search on Saturday.
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Travis King Is in American Custody , After Being Detained in North Korea.
U.S. Army Private Travis King crossed the military demarcation line between
South Korea and North Korea in July.
Prior to entering North Korea,
King was charged with assault in South Korea and was scheduled to return to Texas'
Fort Bliss to be removed from the Army. .
On Sept. 27, King was released to
U.S. custody in China, Fox News reports.
The relevant organ of the DPRK decided to expel Travis King, a soldier of the U.S. Army who illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK, under the law of the Republic, Via state media outlet Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea also said that King “confessed that
he illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK
as he harbored ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment
and racial discrimination within the U.S. Army and
was disillusioned about the unequal U.S. society.”.
The National Security Council (NSC)
confirmed that King has been returned. .
[The NSC] are very pleased to announce this morning — although events are still ongoing — that the U.S. government has successfully facilitated Private Travis King's departure from the DPRK, NSC Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania Mira Cooper, via statement.
His transfer culminates a months-long
effort involving multiple U.S. government agencies undertaken out of concern for
Private King's well-being and a desire
to reunite him with his family, NSC Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania Mira Cooper, via statement.
King is said to be in
good health, Fox News reports.
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The games have officially begun. Netflix is giving us a closer look at the Squid Game reality competition series, Squid Game: The Challenge. The reality show, based on the streamer's highly popular global dystopian series Squid Game, follows 456 real players from around the world who enter the competition show in pursuit of a record-setting cash prize of $4.56 million.
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