Today’s news: Tense summit in Ankara with the Iranian Foreign Minister due to the offensive against Syria. A Cambodian court condemns 13 Filipino women contracted for surrogacy accused of “human trafficking.” BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis will lead the Maharashtra government. Due to the war in Ukraine, the level of the Volga also drops.
SOUTH KOREA
After forcing President Yoon, in full view of everyone, to lift martial law, proclaimed a few hours earlier, six Korean opposition parties presented a impeachment motion against the head of state. The motion is expected to come up for debate tomorrow and be voted on by Parliament on Friday or Saturday. On paper, the petitioners are eight votes short of the quorum needed to remove Yoon. But even prominent members of Seoul’s ruling conservative front distanced themselves in the notes from the president’s attempt to declare martial law.
Türkiye-SYRIA-IRAN
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made a tense visit to Ankara in the midst of an offensive by Syrian rebels supported by Türkiye to take Aleppo. Araghchi traveled to Türkiye after Sunday’s meeting with Syrian President Bashar al Assad, in which he reiterated Tehran’s support for Damascus. Observers in Ankara expected Araghchi to convey a message from Assad encouraging a diplomatic solution to the escalating conflict. But it wasn’t like that.
CAMBODIA-PHILIPPINES
A Cambodian court condemned 13 Filipino women accused of human trafficking. The Philippine embassy explained that the women were actually recruited online to become surrogate mothers and were rescued from a house on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The women were pregnant at the time of their arrest in September. The women were sentenced to four years in prison for “attempted cross-border trafficking in human beings,” but they will only serve two years, with the rest of the sentence suspended, the Kandal Provincial Court reported in a statement on Monday.
INDIA
Devendra Fadnavislocal leader of the BJP (Prime Minister Modi’s Hindu nationalist party) will be the new head of government of Maharashtra, the large Indian state that includes the metropolis of Bombay. The inauguration is scheduled for tomorrow. The transfer of the leadership of the executive to the BJP is the result of the broad success achieved in the November 20 elections. He will govern alongside outgoing Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s National Congress Party.
MONGOLIA-AUSTRALIA
Australian mining giant Rio Tinto on Wednesday forecast an increase in consolidated output of mined copper by 2025, mainly due to a 50 percent increase in planned output from its copper plant. Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia.
RUSSIA
The course of the Volga, the main river of European Russia that flows into the Caspian Sea, continually lowers its level due to actions linked to war needs, without care for the surrounding environment, as local ecologists observe, to use the waters in various industrial war production projects, with protests even from local governors.
KYRGYZSTAN
The Kyrgyz authorities intend to start a major housing renovation project next year, as was done in Russia in previous years, demolishing Soviet apartment blocks known as Stalinki, Khruščevki and Brežnevki, depending on their era, to build in modern multi-storey apartment blocks will take their place, and the legislative bases are being prepared.
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