Trump to run for the White House for a third time

Trump to run for the White House for a third time

• Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched his third campaign for the White House just one week after a disappointing midterm showing for Republicans, forcing the party to again decide whether to embrace a candidate whose refusal to accept defeat in 2020 sparked an insurrection and pushed American democracy to the brink.
• “In order to make America great again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for President of the United States,” Mr. Trump said before several hundred supporters at his Mar-a-Lago club, where he stood flanked by American flags and banners bearing his “Make America Great Again” slogan.

U.K. and India to launch a Young Professionals Exchange in 2023

• British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will announce a new “partnership” with India on Wednesday, at the G20 summit in Bali, Downing Street has announced.
• Under the U.K. India Young Professionals Scheme, the U.K. will offer, annually, 3,000 degree holding Indians in the 18–30 year age group places to work in the U.K. for up to two years. 
• The scheme will commence in early 2023 and be on a reciprocal basis.
• Indians comprising almost a quarter of all international students in the U.K. and Indian Investment in the U.K. supporting 95, 000 jobs in the country.

Lula offers to host 2025 UN climate talks in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

• Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received a warm welcome eat the COP27 summit in Egypt on Wednesday, where he pledged to recommit the rain forestation to tackling the climate crisis and offered to hold future U.N. climate talks.
• A leftist who won his third term in office last month, Mr. Lula said he would seek to make Brazil the host of COP30 in 202 5and would aim to put the venue in the Amazon rainforest, rather than the more populous coastal region.
• Brazil’s 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro set the stage for all major international environmental agreements since, with the signing of U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is aimed at preventing extreme climate change and was the foundation of the COP meetings.