Other news of the day: in Singapore a man was sentenced to death for drug trafficking. Money earning apps are becoming popular in South Korea. One of 12 cheetahs imported from South Africa has died in India. Tensions intensify in Nagorno Karabakh. The European Union imposed new sanctions for Captagon trafficking.
PAKISTAN
Two explosions at an anti-terrorist ammunition depotin the northwest of the Swat valley, killed 13 people and injured 50 others. The region was controlled by Islamist militants until 2009. According to the police spokesman, the ammunition caught fire, “probably due to an electrical short circuit. Until At the moment there is no evidence that it was an external attack”.
INDIA
another cheetah died in the Kuno National Park, in the state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the second in less than a month and is part of a group of 12 big cats from South Africa that were brought to India in February. According to a preliminary report, the animal died of heart failure. India last year reintroduced cheetahs, which had been declared extinct 70 years ago.
SINGAPORE
Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was sentenced to death for drug trafficking, because he tried to smuggle 1 kg of cannabis from Malaysia. The Court of Appeals confirmed his sentence a few days ago, and the execution would take place tomorrow. The family claims the man is innocent and has asked authorities for a new trial.
SOUTH KOREA
Taking 10,000 steps, performing simple tasks like signing up for social media or tapping your cell phone screen when other users are nearby can earn up to 10 cents each time for users. Toss app users, of the increasingly popular South Korean startup Viva Republica. Three out of four adults earn money this way in South Korea, against the backdrop of rising youth unemployment and steadily rising inflation.
NAGORNO-KARABAKH
The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh is worsening and even several Russian and Azeri media fear “a new great Armenian military offensive” in the near future. They also point to the “increasingly clear anti-Russian position of the Armenian Prime Minister Pašinyan, who calls on the Western collective to expel Russia from the region,” according to the @Rybar agency.
RUSSIA
The United Russia deputy Sultan Khamzaev presented in the Moscow Duma the proposal to exclude the English language from school programs, in order to “get out of the propaganda vector in the world of education.” He considers that the Anglo-Saxon language has become internationalized precisely because “it is imposed as compulsory in the study plans of the whole world.”
EUROPEAN UNION – SYRIA
The EU extended the sanctions for “drug trafficking operations on a large scale” from the Syrian government to Wasim al-Assad and Samer al-Assad, members of President Bashar al-Assad’s family, two other Lebanese nationals and nearly a dozen others for their alleged role in the Captagon trade, an amphetamine.A Russian company is also cited.Sanctions had previously been imposed on the Syrian president.
