Current Affairs – 27 September 2022
Drought puts 3.6m children at risk of dropping out of school in Horn of Africa: UN
Sep 27, 2022
Nearly four million children are at risk of dropping out of school due to the drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations has warned, amid fears that it could lead to “a lost generation”.
US gun violence: 7 killed, 30 injured in bloody weekend shootings in Chicago
Sep 27, 2022
As the epidemic of gun violence assumes alarming proportions across the US, at least 7 people were killed and more than 30 others wounded in a series of shootings across the US city of Chicago over the weekend, according to police.
Putin grants Russian citizenship to Snowden, who exposed US surveillance
Sep 27, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree granting Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who exposed mass spying by the US National Security Agency and then sought refuge in Russia.
North Korea: Naval exercise by US, South driving Korean Peninsula to brink of war
Sep 27, 2022
North Korea has warned that joint naval drills by the United States and South Korea, which started on Monday, may trigger an all-out war on the Korean Peninsula.
EU ‘shot itself in foot’ as anti-Russia sanctions ‘backfired’: Hungarian PM
Sep 27, 2022
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has censured the European Union’s sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, saying the bloc “shot itself in the foot” by the imposition of such restrictive measures and caused a surge in energy prices across the continent.