News of the day: Putin and Kim will sign a “comprehensive strategic partnership” in Pyongyang. Religious parties are also threatening to abandon Netanyahu’s government over the law on how rabbis are chosen. Curfew in Orissa after the attack by Hindu fundamentalists on the slaughter of cows for Eid. Germany wants to repatriate Afghan asylum seekers through Uzbekistan. The Japanese, in favor of an “official” application of government meetings.
ECUADOR-CHINA
Ecuador announced the suspension as of July 1, an agreement with China that allowed Chinese citizens to travel visa-free to the South American country, citing a “worrying” increase in irregular immigration. As of 2023, Chinese are among the top nationalities of migrants arriving in the United States. Ecuador – which, along with Suriname, are the only two American countries that offer visa-free travel to Chinese citizens – has become a starting point for Chinese emigrants who then travel north through Central America before to enter the United States.
NORTH KOREA-RUSSIA
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are expected to sign a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty in the talks that began today in Pyongyang. The summit was held after an official welcome ceremony in Kim Il Sung Square. In his keynote speech, Putin thanked North Korea for its support of Russian policies, including Moscow’s war against Ukraine.
ISRAEL
Just as the threat of a large-scale conflict also looms on the northern front with Lebanon, the religious parties of Israel They are now threatening to leave Netanyahu’s government. The reason for the confrontation is the prime minister’s decision to block a bill that would have changed the way rabbis are appointed in local communities. Pointing the finger at the internal divisions of the Likud, Shas representatives made it known that the fall of the Executive would now be only a “matter of time.”
INDIA
A curfew and the suspension of the Internet have been decreed in the coastal town of Balasore, in the Indian state of Orissa, after clashes over allegations of cow slaughter during the Eid celebration by the Muslim community. In the clashes, which took place on the afternoon of June 17, at least 15 people were injured, including five police officers, and in several towns there were assaults on the homes of the Muslim minority, which represents only two percent of the population. local population.
GERMANY-UZBEKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN
The German authorities are discussing with those in Tashkent the possibility of repatriate Afghan asylum seekers through Uzbekistan with flights of a private company. According to Bloomberg, this “migration pact”, discussed by a German delegation in May, would prevent Berlin from carrying out direct negotiations with the Taliban in Kabul.
JAPAN
According to a survey by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, most Japanese citizens wouldn’t mind a state-supported dating app to encourage marriages in the face of declining birth rates. 54% of those surveyed are in favor and 36% against. The survey follows the Tokyo metropolitan government’s recent announcement that it will launch such an initiative powered by artificial intelligence. The capital’s administrators emphasize credibility and a feeling of security for users.
RUSSIA
In the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderful in Moscow, a 19th-century copy of the Vladimir icon of the Virgin Mary, which had been saved from the destruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in 1931 by order of Stalin, has been recognized in a corner of the altar and will now be solemnly returned to the cathedral rebuilt in 1997, seat of the Patriarch of Moscow.
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