Today’s news: Macao asks Taiwan’s diplomatic corps to respect the “one China principle.” Japan could take legal action against messages insulting athletes at the Olympic Games. More than 8,000 people infected with dengue fever in Laos in 2024. Floods in South Asia are due to the phenomenon of “atmospheric rivers.”
RUSSIA
Russia carried out a prisoner exchange with the United States and Germany, which resulted in the release of foreign dissidents and detainees Ilja Yasin, Vladimir Kara-MurzaAlsa Kurmaševa, Andrei Pivovarov and Oleg Orlov, Aleksandra Skočilenko, Lilija Čanyševa, Ksenja Fadeeva, Riko Kriger, Kevin Lik, Demuri Voronin, Vadim Ostanin, Patrik Schoebel, Paul Whelan and German Moizes, in exchange for FSB assassin Vadim Krasikov and several other Russian spies and agents. The twelve Russians arrived at Cologne airport last night. Among those freed in the exchange are reporter Evan Gershkovich along with two other US citizens and a German citizen who was detained in Belarus.
TAIWAN
Taiwan declared that it was having difficulties in sending staff to its representative office in Macau The government of the special administrative region requires the signing of a document stipulating compliance with the “one China principle” in order to obtain a visa. Liang Wen-chieh, deputy head of the Mainland Affairs Council, urged Macau to remove the obstacle and deal with the issue amicably, but added that Taiwan would “prepare for the worst,” without elaborating.
JAPAN
The Japanese delegation to the Paris Olympics said it would consider taking legal action against defamatory content posted on the Internet against athletes. The Japanese Olympic Committee issued a statement yesterday explaining that criticism and insults They hurt athletes’ feelings and often cause anxiety or fear.and asks users to behave politely.
LAOS
More than 8,400 people were infected with dengue fever in the first seven months of the year, according to figures released by Lao health authorities. Although this figure is still high, it represents a significant decrease compared to the 15,851 infections recorded in the same period last year. However, the real figure could be much higher because many people do not go to health centres.
INDIA
Torrential rains have always affected South Asia during this period. But climate change has created a new phenomenon, which scientists call “atmospheric rivers” – bands of moisture that evaporate from the oceans and then fall violently as rain or snow, causing floods or avalanches. According to experts from the Indian Institute of Technology, seven of the ten most severe floods that occurred in India during the monsoon season between 1985 and 2020 were due to flooding. related to atmospheric riversbut the phenomenon has worsened throughout Asia.
Türkiye
Türkiye blocked access to Instagram, without specifying the reason or duration of the ban. However, in recent days, Fahrettin Altun, a communications official, had criticized the platform for blocking posts of condolences for the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismai Haniyeh.
TAJIKISTAN
The head of Tajikistan’s drug control agency, Samad Zafar, said drug deliveries from Afghanistan were now largely carried out by drone, following deals concluded mostly through social messaging, refuting claims by the UN and the Taliban that Afghan production was declining given the continued rise in trafficking from that direction.
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