China cuts off cooperation with the United States

Other news of the day: several leaders of the Congress Party were arrested in India for six hours; highway construction threatens an indigenous tribe in the Philippines; at least 8 dead in an explosion in Kabul claimed by the Islamic State; in Iraq the Sadrists occupied the Green Zone; Uzbekistan is becoming less and less democratic.

CHINA-USA

China has discontinued cooperation with the United States in several areas, including climate change, military talks and the fight against international crime, in the context of the current confrontation over Taiwan. Beijing also announced that it intends to impose sanctions on the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and her family.

PHILIPPINES

A road providing access to Dumagat land north of the capital, Manila, is raising serious questions about the relationship between development and cultural preservation. The lifestyle of this people, in symbiosis with nature, is in danger of disappearing, says a report from the CNA. Already in the 1970s the tribe had been forced to move to the interior of the island to make room for tourism.

INDIA

Several leaders of the Congress Party, including Rahul Gandhi, were detained six hours by Delhi police during anti-government protests over rising prices and unemployment. The demonstration had been announced in advance but did not have the permission of the authorities. “What we are witnessing is the death of democracy in India,” Rahul Gandhi told reporters.

AFGHANISTAN

The Islamic State yesterday claimed a attack in a residential area Shia from the capital Kabul. Local police reported that at least eight people were killed and 18 injured. According to an Afghan security official, the death toll is set to rise.

IRAQ

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr occupied and prayed in the Green Zone of Baghdad, the area in the heart of the capital where the Parliament and foreign embassies are located. Iraq is in the midst of a political crisis because the political parties have failed to form a government. Al-Sadr called for early elections yesterday, while the UN warned that there is a risk of an escalation against the pro-Iranian Shiite parties.

UZBEKISTAN

In Uzbekistan, public officials are obliged to support the constitutional changes that will take the presidential term from five to seven years, “annulling” the previous forms, according to the Putin model. Some must sign a petition for President Mirziyoyev to remain on the presidential throne for life.

RUSSIA

The court decided to extend the detention of Jakut shaman Aleksandr Gabishev, who for two years has been trying to travel to Moscow to cast a death curse on Putin. At this time he is confined in a psychiatric asylum. His followers are convinced that the authorities fear his pronouncements against the war, which he has been announcing for years.