Today’s news: UN Security Council closed-door meeting on Rafah tent city massacre. An imminent vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Marape overshadows the news of the gigantic landslide in Papua New Guinea. Hong Kong renounces waste containment plan. In Chechnya, Kadyrov elects Daudov as the new prime minister.
NORTH KOREA
He rocket announced by Pyongyang that was to put a military satellite into orbit exploded in the air minutes after its launch. The launch took place last night from the Sohae base, on the northwest coast of the country. North Korean authorities attributed the failure to problems with the propellant. The launch came just hours after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese Premier Li Qiang held a trilateral summit in Seoul, reaffirming their commitment to promoting peace in the Korean peninsula.
GAZA-ISRAEL
At the request of Algeria, the UN Security Council has scheduled a meeting for this afternoon emergency meeting behind closed doors on the situation in Rafah following the massacre caused by the burning of a tent city triggered last night by an Israeli airstrike, in which at least 45 civilians were killed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the deadly attack a “tragic incident” that his government is “investigating.” UN Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths replied that “calling it ‘a mistake’ is a message that means nothing to those who died, to those who are grieving and to those trying to save lives.”
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape will face a motion of censure in Parliament after the opposition party appointed Rainbo Paita, a former finance minister who left the government along with a group of deputies, as alternative prime minister. Port Moresby newspapers are dominated by this political standoff, which overshadows the devastating landslide that buried around 2,000 people in remote villages in Enga province on May 24.
INDIA
At least 14 people died in the Indian state of Mizoram in the collapse of a quarry caused this morning by heavy rains caused by the cyclone Remal, which since Sunday has hit large areas of Bangladesh and India with showers and wind gusts of 110 kilometers per hour. Nearly a million people have been evacuated from their homes.
HONG KONG
The Hong Kong government decides postpone the entry into force of a new tax system that was to optimize garbage collection. The plan (which has been debated for 20 years) has failed in the testing phase, so it will not come into force in August, as planned. According to the Department of Environmental Protection, the municipal solid waste disposal rate in Hong Kong in 2022 was 1.51 kilograms per person per day. About 30% was food waste.
RUSSIA
In the rebalancing of leadership in Chechnya, President Ramzan Kadyrov proposed his confidant Magomed Daudov, who had resigned as speaker of the Groznyj parliament, as the new head of the local government, instead of the less close Muslim Khučiev, without explaining the reasons. of the changes. The prime minister replaces the president by law in the event of sudden death, which is feared to be the case of Kadyrov due to illness.
ARMENIA
After the tragedy of Iranian President Raisi, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pašinyan also ran the risk of crashing the state helicopter with which he was flying over the border areas in dispute with Azerbaijan, but managed to make an emergency landing in the city of Vanadzor , and Pašinyan himself reassured everyone that “everything is fine.”
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