Today’s news: General Igor Kirillov, head of the nuclear and chemical weapons department, is killed by an improvised explosive device in Moscow. Representatives of the Myanmar junta and some resistance militias hold talks in China. A British court rules that the detention of Tamil immigrants on the island of Diego García was illegal. Iran suspends the application of the “hijab and chastity law”, challenged by activists.
NORTH KOREA – RUSSIA – UKRAINE
The United States declared that North Korean troops died while fighting Ukrainian forces in the Russian Kursk region. These would be the first reported casualties since it was revealed in October that North Korea had sent some 10,000 troops to reinforce Russia’s war effort. In addition, Russian forces reportedly burned the faces of dead North Korean soldiers to hide their identities.
RUSSIA
A bomb hidden in an electric scooter killed a top Russian general in charge of nuclear protection forces in Moscow, the Russian Investigative Committee reported. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, was killed in front of a residential building on Ryazansky Prospekt, at the beginning of a street about seven kilometers southeast of the Kremlin.
MYANMAR – CHINA
Representatives of the Military Junta and leaders of an insurgent militia held talks in the Chinese province of Yunnanas Beijing pressures both sides to find a solution to the civil war in Myanmar. Talks in Kunming began on Sunday. The talks come more than a month after junta leader Min Aung Hlaing traveled to Kunming to meet with the Chinese premier, his first trip to China since the coup.
SRI LANKA – GREAT BRITAIN
A British judge ruled that the detention of Tamil migrants from Sri Lanka in the remote British territory of Diego Garcia, on the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, was illegal and earlier this month, after numerous complaints from human rights organizations, They were transferred “temporarily” to London for humanitarian reasons. In 2021, dozens of Tamils rescued at sea had become the first to request asylum on the island, home to a British and American military base. They were held for years in a small fenced camp.
IRAN
He Iran’s National Security Council suspended the implementation of the controversial “hijab and chastity law”which was to come into force on Friday. President Massoud Pezeshkian called the law “ambiguous and in need of reform,” signaling his intention to reevaluate its measures. The proposed new law – which would introduce harsher penalties for women and girls who expose certain body parts – had been heavily criticized by human rights activists.
GEORGIA
The new president of Georgia, Mikhail Kavelašvili, not recognized by the opposition, declared that “it makes no sense for Georgia to enter the EU, to renounce its values, its character, its culture, its language, its faith, the defense of its homeland. “, because the Georgians want to be part of Europe “as they are, without being forced to enter any organization”, and for now on the part of the West “there is no desire to discuss it.”
TAJIKISTAN
The President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rakhmon, announced that parliamentary elections for the Milli Medžlis and regional administrations will be held on March 28, 2025. There are seven officially registered political parties in the country, practically all loyal to the current regime, which have not yet have declared their participation in the elections, in addition to some opposition movements that are regularly denied registration.
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