24 dead, separatist group claims responsibility

Today’s news: 540 civilians have been killed in 10 months by the military junta’s aviation in Myanmar. Taiwan offers rewards of thousands of dollars for reports of Chinese activities at sea. North Korea carries out GPS signal jamming attacks, affecting civilian ships and aircraft in Seoul. A 29-year-old man tells Al Jazeera of his childhood in the Christian community of Gaza after a year of bombing.

PAKISTAN

At least 24 people killed and 46 injured after suicide blast at Quetta railway station. This comes a week after a bomb blast near a girls’ school and a hospital in Balochistan’s Mastung district left eight people dead. Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces have seen a sharp rise in terrorism-related incidents in the last one year. The ethnic Baloch separatist group Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack.

MYANMAR

At least 540 civilians killed by junta airstrikes in Myanmar in the first 10 months of the yearwith the highest number of fatalities in Rakhine state. The count by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) came as the United Nations Development Program warned in a report that Rakhine faces an “imminent threat of acute famine”, with more than 2 million people “at risk of starvation” due to the ongoing conflict and restrictions on the entry of goods into the state.

TAIWAN – CHINA

The coast guard of Taiwan declared yesterday that it will offer rewards of thousands of dollars for detecting Chinese activities at sea, including warships or submarines, stating that he wants to take advantage of “people’s power.” Over the past five years Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained about increased Chinese military activities and the Taiwanese coast guard has become increasingly involved in patrolling marine areas.

NORTH KOREA – SOUTH KOREA

North Korea carried out GPS jamming attacks yesterday and todayaffecting several ships and dozens of civilian aircraft in South Korea, according to the Seoul military. The jamming charges come about a week after the North tested what it claimed was its most advanced and powerful ICBM, its first such launch since it was accused of sending soldiers to help Russia fight Ukraine.

GAZA – ISRAEL

More than a year until October 7, 2023, Palestinian Christians despair at the destruction of Gaza at the hands of Israel, while Trump prepares to return to the presidency of his most powerful ally, the United States. Khalil Sayeghm, a 29-year-old Christian, tells Al Jazeera about his childhood in the Christian community of Gazadevastated by a year of Israeli bombings.

RUSSIA

The Moscow court has just sentenced Aleksandr Krajčik, a 34-year-old bank employee, to 13 years in harsh prison on charges of high treason, for transferring 50 euros to a German bank, which supports the Ukrainian army, on February 26 2022, two days after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when the aggravated penalties were not yet applied.

GEORGIA

The Georgian state security services have summoned the founder of the opposition television channel Mtavari Arkhi, Georgij Rurua, for questioning as a witness to a “terrorist plot”, and for many this is a sign of the beginning of the regime’s persecution of the Georgian Dream to silence criticism and accusations, and control the country.