Today’s news: at least 50 dead in new Israeli attacks on Lebanon. On the Indonesian island of Flores the volcano continues to erupt, thousands of people displaced. A video about the persecution of Uyghurs was removed from Tik Tok. In South Korea, marriages with foreign spouses cease. Türkiye forgives Kyrgyzstan’s debt.
CHINA-UNITED STATES
The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that the president Xi Jinping today congratulated Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States. Xi urged the two countries to find the right way to cooperate in the new era to benefit both countries and the world. He expressed hope that the two sides will uphold the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, strengthen dialogue and communication, properly manage differences and expand mutually beneficial cooperation.
LEBANON-ISRAEL
At least 50 people died in new Israeli air strikes against Baalbek (Lebanon) and the central Bekaa region. According to the Lebanese national news agency, more than 30 attacks occurred yesterday across the area, which also injured another 63 people. Meanwhile, the israeli army announced the death of one of its soldiers and the wounding of three others due to some 50 rockets launched by Hezbollah against the Israeli city of Avivim.
INDONESIA
Four days after the first, which claimed 10 lives on Sunday, on the Indonesian island of Flores, the eruptions of the Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano. Today eight have already been recorded, spewing ash up to 8,000 meters high. Some 5,800 of the more than 16,000 people who live in the areas closest to the volcano have been evacuated to other towns and their houses will have to be rebuilt in safer areas.
CHINA-Türkiye
Nefise Oguz, a Uighur student at Istanbul University, denounced the withdrawal on the social network TikTok of a video of a brief debate with Doğu Perinçek, leader of the Turkish Patriotic Nationalist Party, about the Uyghur genocide and China’s oppressive policies in Xinjiang. The video, which had been posted on the popular short video platform on the night of October 24, disappeared the next morning. Tik Tok, controlled by Chinese company ByteDance, said it had removed the video because it violated community guidelines.
SOUTH KOREA
The number of Marriages between South Koreans and foreign spouses increased by 17.2% in 2023 compared to the previous year, according to data provided by Statistics Korea. 20,431 were celebrated, compared to 17,428 in 2022. Of the total number of marriages celebrated in South Korea last year, multicultural ones represented 10.6%, compared to 9.5% the previous year.
RUSSIA
In 2024, 601 cases of incidents related to terrorist actions occurred in Russia, 50% more than in all of 2023 and 15 times more than in 2021, before the invasion of Ukraine, as Verstka reports, mainly with cases of fires in military districts and sabotage on railway lines, classified by the prosecution as attacks and punishable by life imprisonment.
Türkiye-KYRGYZSTAN
Turkey has forgiven Kyrgyzstan its foreign debt, as announced by President Sadyr Žaparov in a joint statement with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in exchange for the implementation of “green economy” projects with agreements in the fields of health, energy, economic , agriculture and also security and culture.
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