Today’s news: after days of ‘siege’, Philippine preacher Apollo Quiboloy, a friend of Duterte, arrested. Another Burmese general visits China. Indian doctors in West Bengal continue protesting in defiance of Supreme Court order. For Kim Jong Un, North Korean nuclear weapons ‘pose no threat’. In Russian local elections, all outgoing governors confirmed.
Gaza – Israel
At least 40 people died in a Israeli attack on a camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza and more than 60 were injured. The area of Al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis, had been designated safe by Israel. Local sources reported that at least four rockets hit shops.
PHILIPPINES
Filipino preacher Apollo Quiboloy, wanted in the Philippines and the United States for child sex trafficking, He was arrested in Davao thanks to heartbeat detection by Philippine police equipment. Quiboloy, who until 2022 enjoyed the protection of former President Rodrigo Duterte, was hiding in an underground bunker within a vast complex of buildings belonging to the congregation that he founded, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
MYANMAR
Lieutenant General Yar Pyae, the interior minister of the Burmese military junta, is another of the personalities who has traveled to China in recent months. He left on Sunday to attend a security forum that ends today. In April, Yar Pyae was awarded the Great Wall Gold Medal by Beijing for protecting Chinese citizens (and investments) in Myanmar, a point that Beijing continues to insist on given the ongoing fighting in Shan State.
INDIA
Doctors protesting in West Bengal following the rape and murder of a 31-year-old student intern on August 9 have announced that would continue their strike until the government met their demands, violating a Supreme Court order that would force them to return to work.
NORTH KOREA
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has said that Pyongyang has been trying to steadily increasing its nuclear arsenalwhile noting that North Korea is a responsible state and that “defensive nuclear weapons pose no threat to anyone.” The country has also recently announced the installation of 250 ballistic missile launchers on the border with South Korea.
RUSSIA
Autumn elections have been held in 21 Russian regions, confirming all outgoing governors except for one independent in Zabakhkal, and electing only deputies from Putin’s United Russia party to parliamentary seats. Even in Khabarovsk, where the liberal-nationalists of the LdPR had long prevailed, no one turned up.
KYRGYZSTAN
The municipal authorities of Os, the capital of southern Kyrgyzstan, have announced their decision to begin the process of returning all private water sources and reservoirs in the area to the municipal administration in order to finally resolve the problem of supplying drinking water to citizens. Several of them had been privatised by politicians.
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