Other news of the day: Taliban sources confirm the presence of foreign fighters in Afghanistan; Shanghai Disneyland Park closed its doors to visitors due to Covid; more and more tigers are disappearing throughout Asia; in Kazakhstan two shelters are opened for Russians who fled the mobilization; the children of Kherson will be transferred to the Crimea.
KOREA
Both North Korea and South Korea They launched missiles for the first time that fell in the waters of their respective coasts.. Seoul responded by launching three air-to-ground missiles three hours after Pyongyang’s rockets landed less than 60 km from the city of Sokcho. North Korea had threatened the South and the US with putting an end to the joint military exercises that are taking place these days.
CHINA
Visitors to Disneyland in Shanghai were trapped inside the park due to a sudden closure after 10 new cases of Covid-19 were registered over the weekend. The local authorities prohibited the entrance to the park and only authorized the exit after the presentation of a negative test. The reopening date has not been reported. Meanwhile, the attractions continue to operate.
AFGHANISTAN
Taliban sources confirmed that several foreign nationals, suspected to be members of Al Qaeda, are in Baghlan province. These fighters were reorganized after the assassination of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri, “they are all armed and circulate in the SUVs that the intelligence services used to use,” they commented. Tajikistan, which shares a 1,400 km border with Afghanistan, has repeatedly expressed concern about the situation.
ASIA
More and more tigers are disappearing in Asia. This is denounced in a report by the organization Traffic, which monitors the poaching of endangered species and the illegal trade in wild animals, which is very active in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Russia, the abduction of tigers in facilities where they grow in captivity has increased. Additionally, 75% of poaching-related social media accounts are based in Vietnam.
MALAYSIA
the party in power, UMNO has excluded eight key allies of Prime Minister Ismail Sabro Yaakob from the list of candidates for the elections next November 19. The move is a sign of the increasingly strained relationship between the prime minister and UMNO chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who also leads the Barisan Nasional coalition. Currently, the coalition has 166 of the 222 seats in Parliament.
EGYPT
The well-known Anglo-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, currently imprisoned in Egypt, started a hunger strike on the eve of COP27 from Sharm el-Sheikh. From Sunday he will also stop drinking water. The activist had already served five years in prison for participating in an unauthorized protest; in 2021 he was sentenced to another five years for “spreading false news”.
KAZAKHSTAN
In Almaty (Kazakhstan) two shelters were opened for Russians who fled the mobilization. Citizens of Russia will be able to stay there for free for a maximum of two weeks, while they find a place to live. The work is financed by the humanitarian association “The Ark” (Kovčeg), which helps needy Russians around the world.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE
More than 4,600 primary and secondary school students were evacuated from the Ukrainian region of Kherson, now annexed to Russia. The minors will be transferred to schools in the Crimea and Krasnodar region, where classes will officially start on November 7. This was reported by the Minister of Education of the region, Tatiana Kuzmič.
