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Today’s news: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal released on bail. Indonesia proposes including fish milk in free meals for children. Researchers of modern Chinese history are finding it increasingly difficult to do their work. Israel carries out ground operation in Syria. Tajikistan cracks down on the Pamirs.

NORTH KOREA

North Korea first released Images of centrifuges that enrich uraniumwhich at a certain concentration can be converted into fuel for nuclear bombs. State media described dictator Kim Jong Un’s visit to the Nuclear Weapons Institute, without clarifying when it took place and where the production base is located, reiterating the threat of “vassal forces led by the US imperialists.”

CHINA

Although Beijing wants to increase academic exchanges, scholars working on modern Chinese history say that Censorship makes independent investigations impossible. In recent years, more and more researchers who had managed to visit China in the past have been denied visas. Documentary research “has basically gone out of fashion because it has become too complex, difficult and dangerous,” said Daniel Leese, a professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Freiburg.

INDIA

This morning the Supreme Court has granted bail Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has been in jail for five months for alleged money laundering, was arrested. The Aam Aadmi Party leader had increased commissions for alcohol sellers, a policy that was later revoked. His supporters say the arrest was orchestrated by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

INDONESIA

President-elect Prabowo Subianto proposed the inclusion of fish milk instead of cow’s milk as a dish in the country’s free meals programme for all children, a policy that has been talked about since Prabowo was elected (he will be sworn in next month). In Indonesia, fish milk is produced from fish protein, processed into powder and flavoured. It has been produced since 2023 with the support of the Ministry of Fisheries to promote local fishery products.

ISRAEL – SYRIA

Israeli special forces carried out a ground operation in Syria A Hezbollah underground missile production facility was attacked on Sunday evening in several villages around the city of Masyaf, not far from the Lebanese border. Several sources of information have learned that the bombing was part of a larger operation.

RUSSIA – Türkiye

Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed his visit to Turkey for the third time, not only out of fear of international arrest, but also, according to sources Middle East Eyedue to the lack of agreement on the conditions of the trip, since the Russian leader had asked Ankara to allow him to fly with the accompaniment of its fighter planes, for fear of attacks.

TAJIKISTAN

The latest report from Amnesty International denounces the continuing repression in Tajikistan against the inhabitants of the Pamir Mountains, in the Gorno-Badakšan region, which makes up 45% of the country’s territory, often considered dangerous by the authorities in Dushanbe, with humanitarian activists sentenced to ten or more years in prison with violence and torture, and even in several cases of murder.