Today’s news: 13 people die off the coast of Mumbai in a collision between a Navy speedboat and a passenger ferry. In Malaysia, Rosmah Mansor, wife of former Prime Minister Najib, is acquitted of evasion and money laundering. Indonesian President Prabowo declares in Egypt that he will fight corruption by pardoning those who return. In North Korea, divorces are punishable by prison sentences in labor camps for both spouses.
ISRAEL – YEMEN – GAZA
A series of intense Israeli airstrikes shook the capital of Yemen, Sana’a, causing the death of at least nine people, according to media outlets controlled by the Shiite Houthi militia. The Israeli army claimed to have attacked “military targets” on the western coast. Meanwhile, Israel continued bombing Gazakilling at least 16 Palestinians in the north, including children and a doctor at Al Ahli Arab Hospital.
MALAYSIA
Malaysia’s High Court acquits Rosmah Mansor, wife of jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razakon charges of money laundering and tax evasion. Both were the subject of multiple corruption investigations following a shock election defeat in 2018, when voter fury over their alleged role in a multibillion-dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) ended their nine years in power.
INDIA
At least 13 people killed after Indian Navy speedboat loses control and crashed into a passenger ferry off Bombay. Among the dead were three members of the Navy, while more than 100 people were rescued. The Indian Navy declared that there had been an “engine failure.” According to local media, an investigation has been ordered to find out the cause of the collision.
INDONESIA
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto He stated that he could forgive those who have committed crimes if they return what was stolenunderlining his commitment to fighting corruption. In a speech to hundreds of Indonesian university students in Cairo during his visit to Egypt for the D-8 Economic Summit, Prabowo said he would put in place a plan in the coming weeks or months to recoup ill-gotten gains.
NORTH KOREA
If a divorce occurs in North Korea, the spouses are sent to a labor camp for one to six months to atone for the “crimes” committed, some residents of the country told Radio Free Asia. Divorce is considered an anti-socialist act and is generally frowned upon in Korea, a communist country where Confucian values remain strong. In the past, only the spouse who requested a divorce was punished.
TAJIKISTAN
Makhmadsobir Abdukakkhor, one of the leaders of the “Group 24” movement, banned in Tajikistan for “ideological-religious extremism”, who now lives abroad, reported that, in his country, the authorities constantly put pressure on the relatives of activists exiles, asking them to convince them to “sincerely repent and return home,” where those who have returned are now in prison.
RUSSIA
On the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Justice, a competition has been called for all students of Russian institutes, aimed at developing a “dictionary of traditional values”, as announced by the vice president of the Moscow Duma, Anna Kuznetsova, a project of support for a future law against “destructive information.”
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