Today’s news: Xi Jinping visits Xinjiang to extol crackdown on Uyghurs; India requests authorization from the WTO to export grain from its public reserves to countries in food crisis. Demining operations begin on the border between Turkey and Armenia. Kazakhstan wants to attract foreign companies that have left the Russian market.
ISRAEL-GAZA
Just as US President Joe Biden was leaving Israel and Palestine for Saudi Arabia, the skies of Gaza lit up again in the Middle East. Last night, they intercepted two rockets launched from the Strip in the direction of Ashkelon. There was no damage. At dawn, the Israeli Air Force responded by bombing Hamas positions. Subsequently, other rockets were fired from Gaza in the direction of Israel.
CHINA
Chinese official media reported that this week the president Xi Jinping paid a visit to Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. This is the province where a harsh repression against the Uyghurs is deployed. It is the second time in eight years that Xi Jinping has visited Xinjiang. According to the news agency Xinhua, the Chinese president praised the Communist Party’s policies for local governance, the overall goal of which is “social stability and lasting security.”
INDIA
India has officially applied to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to be allowed export grain from its public reserves to countries in food crisis. Under WTO rules, countries cannot export food grains from their public reserves because they are purchased at subsidized prices.
JAPAN
In the context of the investigation into the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, more details emerge about the huge sums of money that the mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, the murderer, paid for years to Reverend Moon’s Unification Church. An uncle of the man said the woman would pay the religious organization part of the insurance settlement she received after her husband’s death in 1984 and proceeds from the sale of land after her father’s death in 1998. The donations they would have continued even after it was officially declared bankrupt in 2002.
TURKEY-ARMENIA
According to the Turkish newspaper GazeteKars, joint demining maneuvers began on the border between Turkey and Armenia. The tasks are carried out by a specialized Israeli company and began after a phone call on July 11 between Prime Minister Pashinian and President Erdogan in which congratulations were exchanged for the respective religious festivals of Kurban-Bayram and Vardavar.
KAZAKHSTAN
President Tokaev instructed the Nur-Sultan government to prepare favorable conditions for relocating to Kazakhstan foreign companies that left Russia due to the war in Ukraine. “We are watching the development of a global war for investment capital,” Tokaev said, referring to the nearly 1,500 companies that have left the Russian market.
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