World in brief: July 22, 2024

BELARUS: Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov is to visit North Korea this week, the two countries announced today.
The three-day visit, at the invitation of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, is expected to focus on discussions of trilateral co-operation involving Russia in the face of their separate confrontations with the West.
PAKISTAN: Islamabad today lodged a strong protest with Germany over its failure to prevent protesters getting into the grounds of the Pakistani consulate in Frankfurt.
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