 "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be visiting Turkey. File image/AP")
It is set to be a busy Wednesday with several events lined up for the day.
Firstly, the US-Saudi Arabia investment summit will take place in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to visit Turkey in an attempt to revive peace talks with Russia.
In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu today. The International Children’s Peace Prize ceremony for 2025 will be held in Stockholm today. The world’s first calculator, Pascaline, will go on auction today in Paris.
Here’s all that is set to take place throughout the day.
US-Saudi Investment Summit in DC
The US-Saudi Arabia investment forum will take place in Washington today. The event will take place at the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts and coincides with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s US visit.
The event will include CEOs from Chevron, Qualcomm, Cisco, General Dynamics and Pfizer, reported news agency Reuters quoting sources. Senior executives from IBM, Alphabet’s Google, Salesforce, Andreessen Horowitz, Halliburton, Adobe, Aramco, State Street and Parsons Corp are also expected.
Just a day earlier, the crown prince, widely known by his initials MBS, met with President Donald Trump.
Zelenskyy to visit Turkey
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will head to Turkey today in an attempt to revive talks with Russia amid the ongoing war. According to Reuters, US special envoy Steve Witkoff will also be in Turkey and join the planned talks there.
“We are preparing to reinvigorate negotiations, and we have developed solutions that we will propose to our partners. Doing everything possible to bring the end of the war closer is Ukraine’s top priority,” Zelenskyy, who was visiting Spain on Tuesday (November 18), said about the meetings in Turkey.
No face-to-face talks have taken place between Kyiv and Moscow since they met in Istanbul in July. Meanwhile, Ukraine and Russia have held several rounds of talks in Istanbul that led to the exchange of thousands of prisoners of war and the remains of dead soldiers.
PM Modi to visit Andhra, Tamil Nadu
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu today to participate in various public events. Modi will first travel to Puttaparthi, where he will offer tributes at the mahasamadhi of Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. At a special programme organised in the town, he is expected to release a commemorative coin and a set of postage stamps marking the occasion.
Then he will travel to Coimbatore to inaugurate the South India Natural Farming Summit at around 1:30 pm. More than 50,000 farmers, scientists, agricultural experts and natural-farming practitioners from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Puducherry are expected to participate. The summit aims to promote sustainable and chemical-free farming practices across southern states.
International Children’s Peace Prize
The winner of the International Children’s Peace Prize for 2025 will be announced today during a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. The recipient will be a young change-maker who has made an exceptional difference in promoting children’s rights.
The three finalists for the prize are 15-year-old Bana Alabed, 17-year-old Aeshnina ‘Nina’ Azzahra Aqilani and 16-year-old Divyansh Agrawal. Bana first gained global attention for documenting her experiences during the siege of Aleppo on social media. Meanwhile, a vocal opponent of “plastic colonialism,” Nina has campaigned against the export of plastic waste from Western countries to Indonesia. Through his Junior Philanthropists Foundation, Divyansh has mobilised thousands of young people for environmental reform and climate action, supporting 18 environmental bills in California and improving access to clean water for over a million people.
World’s first calculator goes on auction
An extremely rare calculator known as a Pascaline will go on auction at Christie’s in Paris today. The 17th-century mechanical calculator is considered by many to be the world’s first mechanical calculator. It is the only model remaining in private hands and is expected to fetch between $2.3 million and $3.5 million.
The Pascaline was invented by the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, who designed the first version in 1642 at just 19 years old to help his father, a tax collector, with endless calculations. It will be the featured lot of the Bibliothèque Léon Parcé sale.
With inputs from agencies