Israeli aircraft also attack a church in Dardghaya

Today’s news: at least 20 miners killed in a new attack in Balochistan. At the Vientiane summit, Marcos asks for support in the confrontation with China over the South China Sea, but ASEAN remains divided. The head of the Manipur government threatens to cut off water and electricity to some Kuki villages. Investment in translators, essential for Han Kang to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

LEBANON-GAZA

A church that housed displaced people In the last few hours it was also hit by an Israeli missile attack that killed at least eight people in Dardghaya, southern Lebanon. Local sources informed the Catholic organization Aid to the Church in Need (AIN). On Wednesday the 9th, the church and two adjoining rooms, used as a shelter in the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Tyre, collapsed as a result of the air attack, which according to the Israeli army was directed against militiamen. A priest’s house and a three-story building that housed parish offices were hit, completely destroying them.

PAKISTAN

At least 20 people have died this morning in a stroke carried out by armed men against a coal mine in the Balochistan province of southwestern Pakistan. The attackers broke into the workers’ quarters of the Junaid Coal Company mine, in the Duki district. Police confirmed that four of the victims were Afghan, while the other men came from Pashto-speaking areas of Balochistan. At the moment, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the separatist Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has carried out several deadly attacks in the province.

PHILIPPINES-CHINA

The tensions in the South China Sea are the focus today of the Asia-Pacific summit being held in Vientiane (Laos), attended by the leaders of the Asean countries, the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and the Chinese Prime Minister, Li Qiang. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. urged other ASEAN leaders not to turn a blind eye to developments in the South China Sea. An internal Philippine government document reveals that Marcos on Wednesday asked member countries to join, taking into account China’s actions. “Silence in the face of these violations belittles ASEAN,” Marcos declared. However, some ASEAN states with strong economic ties to China oppose the wording of the issue.

INDIA

The Christians of Manipur, an Indian state torn by ethnic conflict for a year and a half, express their concern about the threat from the state government of deny electrical powerwater and social welfare programs to the “unregistered” towns in the Kuki majority area. On October 8, Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh gave this instruction. “This is a new attempt to attack Christians, mostly belonging to the Kuki-zo community, living in the five mountainous districts of the State,” a local Church leader told UcaNews news agency from Imphal. .

SOUTH KOREA

Behind the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Han Kang, the first awarded to a Korean author, there is also the extremely important role played in recent years by the translatorswhich have taken Korean culture beyond the confines of national borders. This is highlighted by the Korean news agency Yonhap, recalling that, since its creation in 1996, the Literary Translation Institute (LTI) has played a key role in training translators in 44 different languages, while the Daesan Foundation has carried out a important contribution in the private sector.

RUSSIA

On the birthday of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, murdered by Chechen gunmen in 2015, provocateurs attempted to destroy the memorial plaque placed on the Moskvoretsky Bridge, near the Kremlin, the site of his murder, by throwing flowers into the river and threatening activists gathered at the place, where the police arrived very late.

KAZAKHSTAN

The Astana Central Commission announced the results of the referendum on the construction of a new nuclear power plant, in which 5,561,937 citizens (71.12%) voted in favor, compared to 2,045,271 against and more than 130 null votes. In total, 63.66% of eligible voters participated in the vote, a percentage considered quite high compared to expectations.