Today’s news: The two-day meeting between members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization begins today in Pakistan. Israel attacked a Christian village in northern Lebanon. The Taliban prohibit television broadcasting images of living beings. India and Canada once again expel their diplomatic representatives.
NORTH KOREA – SOUTH KOREA
The North Korean Army destroyed, with several detonations, some roads symbolic of inter-Korean cooperation that connect the peninsula and “is carrying out new activities using heavy equipment,” the Seoul Joint Chiefs of Staff told local journalists. Last week, North Korea announced a plan to “completely separate” the territories and accused Seoul of sending three drones over Pyongyang in the last month.
PAKISTAN
Today starts in Islamabad the meeting between government representatives of the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Several leaders from China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus are present to discuss regional security. Maximum security measures in the Pakistani capital for today and tomorrow after the attacks in recent days in Balochistan.
MIDDLE EAST
Lebanese authorities reported that at least 21 people died in a Israeli attack in the north of the country which targeted a residential building in Aitou, a predominantly Christian town. Meanwhile, according to some sourcesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed the US administration that he had no intention of attacking Iranian nuclear power plants or oil targets. Yesterday, Unicef reported that at least 400,000 children They had to flee their homes in Lebanon in the last three weeks.
AFGHANISTAN
The Taliban have prohibited television stations, both public and private, from broadcasting images of living beings. This is a directive derived from a strict interpretation of Islamic law. According to the Center of Afghan Journalists, TV channels in Takhar province have ceased operations. Local authorities have also been ordered to avoid video appearances, and only provide information in audio or written format.
INDIA – CANADA
Yesterday, Canada expelled (again) six Indian diplomatsincluding the ambassador, due to new investigations indicating that Indian agents were directly involved in the murder, in June last year, of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and activist for the independence of the Sikhs of Delhi. India denied all charges and expelled six Canadian diplomatic representatives from its territory.
TURKMENISTAN
Several single mothers with many children in the Turkmen province of Gammar Baba, in the Mari region, protest before the local authorities who do not assign them housing to which they are legally entitled, since all the kommunalke, the longhouses of Soviet heritage, They have been privatized by state officials to rent them at high prices.
RUSSIA – UKRAINE
As reported by the Russian human rights ombudsman, Tatiana Moskalkova (known for her pro-Kremlin stance), 112 thousand people were evacuated from the Kursk region after the Ukrainian attack, and currently about 12 thousand, including 3.5 thousand children are housed in temporary assembly points, but 40 thousand inhabitants of the area have refused to be evacuated, and many have already returned to their homes in territory occupied by Ukraine.
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