Today’s news: South Korea stockpiles salt and shellfish in anticipation of the discharge of contaminated water from Fukushima. Isis claimed responsibility for the attack on a mosque in northern Afghanistan. An Indonesian indigenous community against the hyper-connected world called for an internet blackout. 11% of Indians have diabetes, a population at risk of cardiovascular disease and organ complications. Russian officials and politicians go to war to escape prosecution for corruption and fraud.
ISRAEL
A 21-year-old from southern Israel died stabbed in the early hours of today, and became the 100th victim of the Israeli Arab community to lose their lives violently since the beginning of the year. A spiral of violence and crime that has claimed at least eight lives in two days and against which thousands of people demonstrated last night in the country.
SOUTH KOREA – JAPAN
In anticipation of Japan’s scheduled discharge of contaminated wastewater from the fukushima, scene of the nuclear catastrophe of 2011, in South Korea they rush to buy salt and seafood for fear of a future shortage. Seoul guarantees that there will be strict controls for the possible increase in radioactivity levels, but there is great concern among consumers for public health.
AFGHANISTAN
The militias of the Islamic State (EI, formerly ISIS) claimed responsibility yesterday afternoon for the bloody attempt on June 8 against a mosque in northern Afghanistan, in which at least 11 people were killed. The funeral of the Taliban deputy governor of the province, who had also been killed in a jihadist attack earlier in the week, was being held at the time of the explosion.
INDONESIA
An Indonesian indigenous community called for an internet blackout in the area to minimize the “negative impact” of the hyper-connected world. The protagonists of the unusual petition are the badouyabout 26,000 people from the province of Banten, on the island of Java: a part of the inhabitants have accepted modernity, but a “magic circle” adopted a total rejection of its “traps”.
INDIA
11% of Indians suffer from diabetes, an increasingly common disease along with hypertension and obesity. The study carried out by the government between October 2008 and December 2020 in 31 states or territories and on a sample of more than 113,000 people, shows that 15% suffer from prediabetes and 35% from hypertension. A population at risk of cardiovascular disease and long-term organ complications.
RUSSIA
A special category of Russian volunteers in the Ukrainian war, in addition to conscripts and mercenaries, who are enlisted mainly from among the detainees, are civil servants and politicians. Hundreds of them prefer to go to the front rather than face accusations of corruption or abuse of power, which are canceled with a clean slate and then “return loaded with medals.”
AZERBAIJAN – ARMENIA
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Džejkhun Bayramov told the OECD that the main obstacles to the normalization of relations between Yerevan and Baku are “the illegal presence of Armenian soldiers on the sovereign territory of our country” and government interference. “on the question of our relations with the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh”.
