Other news of the day: in Sri Lanka, a curfew was imposed in the capital; Russia vetoed sending aid to Idlib; Maria Ressa lost the first appeal against the accusation of online defamation, in Afghanistan thousands of people still need help after the earthquake.
JAPAN
arrived in tokyo the body of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The killer who shot him yesterday told police he did it because he had a grudge against a religious organization with whom he believed Abe was linked, but no further information was released. What happened has raised questions about the safety of public figures in Japan. At the moment, tomorrow’s elections for the upper house are confirmed.
SRI LANKA
After firing tear gas and using a water cannon against the demonstrators, the Colombo police yesterday imposed the touch staying in the capital. General discontent over the economic crisis has worsened and new demonstrations are planned for the weekend. The president and the prime minister refuse to resign.
PHILIPPINES
Maria Ressa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize last year and co-founder of the Rappler website, reported that she had lost his appeal against a conviction for online defamation. Ressa and his former colleague Rey Santos Jr face long prison sentences. There are at least seven legal cases against the journalist. The ruling was issued just days after Philippine authorities ordered Rappler closed.
AFGHANISTAN
Even weeks after the magnitude 6 earthquake struck Afghanistan’s southeastern provinces, killing more than 1,000 people, help is still having a hard time coming. According to the United Nations, about 362,000 people need immediate assistance. A local clinic said it had been forced to take in hundreds of people despite only having five available beds.
SYRIA
Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would extend aid to Syria’s Idlib region for a year. The authorization for sending humanitarian aid across the border between Syria and Turkey, which has been in force since 2014, expires tomorrow. More than 2.4 million people receive assistance in what is considered the rebel stronghold. Moscow believes that aid should only be delivered from Damascus, across the front line.
RUSSIA
The campaign for the recruitment of volunteers continues in Russia, who every week are added by hundreds to the forces of invasion of Ukraine after a training of three to seven days. The candidates are promised 300,000 rubles per month (almost 4,000 euros) and a few million compensation to relatives in case of death, which is higher if it is the Wagner company.
KYRGYZSTAN
Kyrgyz Imam Sadybakas Doolov explained the rise in meat prices in the country as “women’s too skimpy dresses”. The fact of wearing low-cut dresses or with wide openings, in his opinion, has meant that “women’s meat today costs much less in the market than lamb.”
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