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- India and South Africa proposed for IP waiver at the World Trade Organisation in 2020.
- Now US President Joe Biden's administration announced its support for a global waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines and will negotiate the terms at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
- Hollywood star Tyler Perry took home the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2021 Oscars ceremony.
- He has been at the forefront of the entertainment industry's recovery amid the coronavirus pandemic.
- India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar attended the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting in London virtually.
- He deliberated on increasing support for the global vaccine distribution scheme COVAX and ensure fair access to vaccine stocks, along with girls’ education, arbitrary detention, and media freedom on the agenda.
- China "indefinitely" suspended all activity under the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue.
- This recent trade sanctions have affected several key Australian industries including wine, barley and coal.
- South Carolina lawmakers have passed a bill to allow inmates on death row to be executed by firing squad in the absence of lethal injection drugs.
- If this becomes a law, it will make South Carolina the fourth state in the country to offer this option as a method of capital punishment.
- The first-ever India-France-Australia Trilateral Foreign Ministerial Dialogue was held in London, UK, on the side-lines of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.
- The meeting was attended by External Affairs Minister, Dr S. Jaishankar from India, France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian and Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Marise Payne.
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