Today’s news: Israel bombed the outskirts of Beirut; knocked down a Unifil tower in the south. An American ship and a Canadian ship crossed the waters between Taiwan and China. New cases of polio in Pakistan, endemic as in Afghanistan. Publications from an anti-war Catholic parish judged as “extremist material” in Belarus.
INDIA
Seven people died yesterday in a attack on the construction of a tunnel in the Ganderbal district, in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The victims are a Kashmiri doctor and at least six migrant workers. The attack is the deadliest against civilians in Jammu and Kashmir since the one carried out on June 9 in Reasi, when nine pilgrims were killed after a bus was hit by gunfire from attackers.
INDONESIA
The former military general Prabowo Subianto sworn in as Indonesia’s eighth presidentannouncing the largest cabinet in the country since the 60s (46 ministers). The inauguration of the 73-year-old former general, already accused of human rights violations, marks the end of the government of former leader Joko Widodo.
ISRAEL – LEBANON
He Israeli army bombed southern suburbs of Beirut and hit southern Lebanon: Gallant claimed that the army was “destroying” the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. Furthermore, the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) declared that a Israeli army bulldozer deliberately demolished an observation tower and they added that their forces remain in all positions “despite the pressure exerted.”
TAIWAN – CHINA – USA
A Yesterday, an American warship and another Canadian ship crossed the waters that separate Taiwan from China, less than a week after China carried out a new series of war “games” around the island. The US and its allies regularly cross the 180 kilometers of the Taiwan Strait to reinforce its status as an international waterway, which infuriates Beijing.
PAKISTAN
Pakistani health authorities confirm six more cases of polio, bringing the number of infected children to 39 this year. The new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) include three cases in Balochistan, two in Sindh province and one in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the last countries where it remains endemic. The disease has no cure and the paralysis caused by the infection is irreversible.
BELARUS
The persecution of Catholics continues in Belarus, where for the second time the Telegram page of the Catholic journalist Maksim Gatsak has been declared “extremist”, while a parishioner from the province of Miorsk, Jurij Borisenko, will be tried by a court for “material extremist”, consisting of anti-war pamphlets and parish publications.
TURKMENISTAN
The police in Mari velayat, in Turkmenistan, monitor citizens who are experiencing economic and health difficulties, and ask for help by spreading appeals and videos through social channels such as IMO and TikTok, summoning them to the police station for questioning and fining them for spreading “defamatory material about our country and its authorities”
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