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Today's news: Crowds rush to return to Gaza City but the Israeli army does not open the checkpoint. Landslides in Sulawesi cause 18 deaths. Hanoi also wants to establish a demarcation line in the Gulf of Tonkin, in response to China. Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes let their Chinese compatriots win the Beijing half marathon.

INDIA-IRAN-ISRAEL

As international diplomacy debates the possible Israeli response to the drones and missiles fired by Iran on Saturday night, the Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, declared yesterday that he had spoken with his Iranian counterpart, H Amirabdollahian, about the release of 17 Indian crew members of the MSC Aries, captured on Saturday by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard near the Strait of Hormuz. The ship's crew – led by an Indian captain and associated with Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer's Zodiac group – also includes four Filipinos, two Pakistanis, a Russian and an Estonian.

LOOP

Thousands of Palestinians They rushed yesterday on the coastal route north of the Gaza Strip after hearing that some people had managed to cross a closed checkpoint into Gaza City, despite Israel's denial that it was open. An AFP reporter saw mothers holding hands with their children and families piling into donkey carts with their luggage on the way. But the Israeli army described the information about the opening of the route as “false.” The return of thousands of people to Gaza City is one of the sticking points in negotiations on a ceasefire and the release of hostages, stalled in Cairo.

INDONESIA

The landslides landslides that occurred over the weekend on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have left at least 18 people dead, while two are still missing. The landslides, caused by heavy rains, affected two villages in the Tana Toraja region of South Sulawesi, destroying four houses.

VIETNAM-CHINA

The authorities in Hanoi are studying the possibility of creating a line that delimits Vietnamese territory in the Gulf of Tonkin, according to Radio Free Asia. On March 1, Beijing announced a similar measure in the northern part of this gulf. Until now, neither country had recorded landmarks in the area to measure the extent of the territorial sea and other maritime zones. However, in 2000, Hanoi and Beijing had signed a delimitation agreement to indicate their respective parts. It is believed that the new line announced by China does not immediately affect Vietnam's sovereignty in already clearly demarcated waters, but Hanoi is concerned about China's unilateral action.

CHINA

The organizers of the Beijing half marathon said they had opened an investigation after some videos shared on social networks Chinese races appear to show three African runners deliberately allowing China's He Jie to win yesterday's race. After the Kenyans Robert Keter and Willy Mnangat, the Ethiopian Dejene Hailu and the local runner He – a previous winner of the marathon at the Asian Games – ran the 21 km course together, the videos show the three African runners pointing to the finishing line. goal and apparently beckoning He forward, while appearing to slow down.

AFGHANISTAN

The Afghan news agency Al Mirsaad published a video of the interrogation of two young Tajiks, suspected of being Isis-Khorasan terrorists who were planning to arrive at a military training camp in Quetta (Pakistan). In the video, both confess to having been recruited by Isis while they were in Russia, doing seasonal work in the Vladimir region.

RUSSIA

The Russian Metropolitan of Crimea, Tikhon (Ševkunov), chaired a meeting in the archaeological park “Chersonese of Tauride” in Simferopolis, also in his capacity as president of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, to urge the completion of the works on the desired park by Putin at the place of Prince Vladimir's baptism, to show the whole world “the ancient roots of Rus.”