News Highlights| U.N. chief urges G20 nations to work together on climate

India on Monday firmly resisted calls for developing countries to raise ambitions at the ongoing UN climate summit in Egypt, saying "goalposts are being shifted constantly" while rich nations have "enormously" failed in delivering the technology and financial resources needed for low-carbon development.

Biden said he sought to assure Xi that U.S. policy on Taiwan has not changed, seeking to lower tensions over the self-ruled island. "I do not think there's any imminent attempt on the part of China to invade Taiwan," he told reporters.

Ahead of the G-20 summit in Indonesia, a WTO report on Monday said that the G20 countries introduced export restrictions at an increased pace during mid-May and mid-October 2022 in the back of global economic uncertainties.

Delhi's air quality on Monday improved to the poor category while the maximum temperature was recorded at 31.2 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season's average. The capital's 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 294. It was 303 on Sunday, as was on Saturday.

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-Biden and Xi to meet at 0930 GMT.It is their first in person meeting since Biden became president.

-British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will call on G20 for coordinated action to address international economic instability and the rising cost of living in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

-Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would hold a bilateral meeting with Xi on Tuesday, in what would be the first meeting between leaders of the two nations after years of strained ties.

-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said he will address the G20 gathering by videolink on Tuesday.

-Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, the host of the summit, told Biden he expected the G20 meeting to deliver concrete partnerships that might help global economic recovery.

-Billionaire Elon Musk addressed a business forum being held on the sidelines of the summit on Monday

China climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said on Monday that Beijing would like a COP27 deal that contains language similar to last year's agreement in Glasgow on targets for limiting global warming, and was not opposed to mentioning 1.5 degree Celsius.

Tata group-owned Air India on Monday said it has joined two industry bodies, Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) and Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA). FIA is a grouping of domestic airlines while AAPA is a trade association for scheduled international airlines.

- Listing provisions such as gas connections, electricity, free food grains during Covid-19 pandemic, Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah said these are not freebies but efforts to raise the standard of living of the people. “Giving a house to someone, gas connection, electricity, Ayushman card, free food grains during Corona, these are not to distribute freebies, but to raise the standard of living of the people,” he said.

-In a veiled attack against the opposition Congress party, Union Home Minister Amit Shah speaking at News18’s ‘Gujarat Adhiveshan’ event said, “There was a time when there was a Congress government in Gujarat and there was a curfew for 250 days in a year. But today, ask a 20-year-old boy what is the curfew then he will not be able to tell. Because he didn’t even see a curfew in BJP rule.”

-On a question on the role of Aam Aadmi Party in the upcoming Assembly elections in Gujarat, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the people of Gujarat have never accepted the concept of a third party in the state.

- It is a habit of Gujaratis that they listen to everyone that has to say. And if people get influenced by these sayings, then I have nothing to say, the outcome will speak on its own.” (News18)