The news of the day: a Myanmar militia has captured another city on trade routes to China. In Indonesia, President-elect Prabowo Subianto chooses his ministers. In Japan, a record of women in the elections, but also of candidates who already have relatives in politics. In Moscow, Cardinal Zuppi asks Lavrov for the repatriation of the deported children and a new exchange of prisoners.
ISRAEL – LEBANON
The Israeli army attacked the Lebanese capital Beirut againafter five days, claiming to have targeted “strategic weapons” hidden by Hezbollah in the Dahyieh neighborhood. Yesterday, the United States called on Israel to guarantee access to humanitarian aid in Gaza, otherwise the Jewish State risks losing some of its American military aid.
MYANMAR
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army captured the last remaining military base in the Hsipaw City, where 20,000 people lived in peacetime. Hsipaw is situated on a highway connecting Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, to China, and hundreds of millions of dollars of trade pass through this route each year.
INDONESIA
Consultations continue for the training of the new executive in Indonesiawho will take office on Sunday. In recent days, the elected president, Prabowo Subianto, has summoned dozens of people who are expected to take charge of the different departments. Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak, Prabowo’s spokesman, declared that the future president “wants to make sure that all ministers and all their subordinates are aware that they have to achieve 8% economic growth.”
CHINA – TAIWAN
Chinese state media reported this morning that President Xi Jinping was located on Dongshan Islandin the Chinese province of Fujian, during military maneuvers around Taiwan. It is the place where China repelled an attempted invasion by the army stationed in Taiwan in 1953. According to the People’s Daily, which did not mention Taiwan, Xi was there “to transmit the red genes and strengthen the protection of cultural heritage.”
JAPAN
Yesterday the campaign for the elections to the House of Representatives on October 27 officially began, in which the Liberal Democratic Party, in power, aspires to maintain its majority. Yesterday it was presented the record number of 314 women as candidates, which represents an increase of more than 5 percentage points compared to 2021, while a total of 136 candidates (10% of the total) have at least one family member already in politics.
RUSSIA – VATICAN
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, received Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, special envoy of Pope Francis for humanitarian diplomacy between Russia and Ukraine, and in addition to the issues of the repatriation of deported children and the exchange of prisoners, they discussed “another series of current issues”, highlighting the mediating role of the Holy See at various levels of perspective.
UZBEKISTAN
Uzbekistan has become the main destination for “health tourism” from Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries, in order to receive the highest level of care at affordable prices, according to a Radio Azattyk report that from January to August In 2024, more than 60,000 Tajik citizens went to Uzbek doctors, 100% more than in the entire previous year, although there is no confirmation of these figures from Dushanbe.
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