Today’s news: Hamas rockets from Gaza and Israeli incursions into the Strip and Lebanon on the first anniversary of the Hamas assault. Five dead due to heat and crowds during a performance by an Indian acrobatic patrol in Chennai. Johor from January 1 will return the weekend to Saturday and Sunday. North Korean officers also among Russian soldiers killed by Ukrainians in Donetsk.
PAKISTAN-CHINA
Two Chinese citizens were killed and at least 10 people were injured last night in a suicide attack near the airport in Karachi, Pakistan. A third body, not yet officially identified, is believed to be that of the terrorist. The Chinese embassy in Pakistan declared it a “terrorist attack” against a convoy of Chinese engineers working on an energy project in Sindh province. The separatist Balochistan Liberation Army, which in recent years has carried out attacks against Chinese citizens working on development projects in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack.
ISRAEL-GAZA-LEBANON
The day when the whole world remembers the first anniversary Following the Hamas attacks that started the war, Palestinian militants fired missiles into southern Israel this morning. Israel claims to have intercepted three, while a fourth fell in an open area. In turn, Israel bombed Gaza’s Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, wounding at least 11 displaced Palestinians. On the northern front, the Lebanese Ministry of Health declared that at least 12 people had been killed, including several children, in two separate Israeli attacks in the country.
INDIA
At least five people died and another 50 were hospitalized in a crowd that gathered yesterday on Marina beach, in Chennaion the occasion of an exhibition of the aerobatic patrol of the Indian Air Force. Local authorities claim the deaths were caused by dehydration and extreme fatigue, while people who attended the event complain of poor crowd management, lack of traffic planning and inadequate public transportation.
JAPAN
According to estimates by a research institute, the number of people over 65 without close relatives in Japan is expected to increase 1.5-fold between now and 2050until it represents more than 10% of the elderly population. People without relatives up to the third degree, including great-grandchildren, would number 4.48 million, according to the Japan Research Institute, raising concerns about who will act as guarantor for hospitals and nursing homes and who will claim their bodies in case of death.
MALAYSIA
The regent of Johor, Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim, announced that the days off of the weekend They will return to Saturdays and Sundays from January 1, 2025. In this Malaysian state, they had been moved to Fridays and Saturdays since January 2014 to allow Muslims to perform their prayers, as decreed by Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar. But the measure created problems due to discrepancies between the public and private sectors.
NORTH KOREA-UKRAINE-RUSSIA
The death of six North Korean soldiers among about twenty soldiers in a Ukrainian missile attack on Russian-occupied territory near the city of Donetsk on Thursday. Citing Ukrainian military intelligence sources, Interfax-Ukraine stated that three other North Korean servicemen were also wounded. According to some Russian bloggers, North Korean soldiers were visiting the front as part of an “exchange of experience” program.
RUSSIA
October 7 is Vladimir Putin’s 72nd birthday, and the first to fly to Moscow to congratulate him was Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukašenko. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Council of Heads of State of the CIS is being held in Moscow for the occasion, “in full format and with a fairly tight agenda.”
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