News of the day: First agreement to pacify the Kurram district in Pakistan. The United States accuses 14 North Koreans of transferring funds to the Pyongyang regime. International Islamic schools in Malaysia are increasingly popular among Singaporeans. Türkiye and Azerbaijan agree on humanitarian action for Syria.
INDIA
The Indian Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, yesterday defeated the Chinese Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship in Singapore, becoming the youngest player to hold the title throughout history. Originally from Chennai, he is also the first Indian grandmaster to win the title since Viswanathan Anand, who won it in the early 2000s.
PAKISTAN
A jirga was held yesterday in the Kurram district that should restore peace in the region, where more than 130 people have died in recent weeks due to violence: the agreement foresees a demilitarization of the district, since, according to government officials, the presence of numerous weapons is the main cause of the violence. At the moment, the highway connecting Parachinar with other cities remains closed.
NORTH KOREA – USA
A United States federal court accused 14 North Koreans of alleged conspiracy: Under a scheme established by North Korea, thousands of contract workers in the United States with false identities allegedly extorted American companies to finance Pyongyang’s weapons programs. According to the indictment, this amount amounted to at least US$88 million over a six-year period.
MALAYSIA – SINGAPORE
International Islamic schools in the Malaysian state of Johor also attract more and more students from neighboring Singapore. These institutions respond to the growing demand from Singaporeans who cannot enroll their children in local madrassas.
CHINA – EGYPT
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated that China and Egypt agree in which both nations must promote peace and negotiations to achieve stability in the Middle East. The statements, in which he expressed his concern about events in Syria, were made after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty.
Türkiye – AZERBAIJAN – SYRIA
The presidents of Azerbaijan and Turkey, Ilham Aliev and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed by telephone on joint humanitarian action for Syria after the fall of Bashir Assad’s regime, congratulating the Syrian people on this turn of events and expressing their common and “fraternal” support. » to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the new government in Damascus.
RUSSIA
The Forensic Medicine Office of the Russian republic of Udmurtia, in the Volga area, has decided to invest more than one and a half million rubles (about 15,000 euros), in addition to the significant sums already used for the genetic analysis of the bodies of those killed in the war in Ukraine. It is estimated that at least 1,500 Udmurtian soldiers have fallen, and the subsidy to families requires identification of the corpse, while bodies of unknown people are often presented.
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