News of the day: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol detained and interrogated. In one week, airstrikes by Myanmar’s coup junta have killed 60 civilians. In India there are fewer and fewer camels. In Vietnam, state broadcasters close due to bureaucratic restructuring.
GAZA – ISRAEL
After eight hours of talks in Doha, Qatar, last night a senior Hamas official declared that the group was waiting for Israel’s maps showing the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip before signing the ceasefire agreement. According to mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the United States, the text has been presented to both sides and talks are underway to finalize the final details. In the last 24 hours, the Israeli army has continued to attack several targets in Gazakilling 24 people this morning alone.
SOUTH KOREA
President Yoon Suk-yeol has been detained and interrogated by more than 3,000 police officers who have paraded to his residence this morning. “I have decided to respond to the IOC investigation, even though it is an illegal investigation, to avoid unpleasant bloodshed,” said Yoon, who must answer charges of insurrection and can be detained for up to 48 hours.
MYANMAR
Burmese junta airstrikes They have killed more than 60 civilians in the last weektargeting regions and outposts controlled by ethnic militias, such as the Arakan Army, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army. In Rakhine alone, 40 people died, including children, and 390 houses were destroyed. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, at least 100 people died in December, almost half of them from aerial bombardments.
INDIA
Unlike in the rest of the world, Camel numbers are declining sharply in Indiawhere they have gone from one million in 1961 to around 200,000 today. And the decline has been especially pronounced in recent years. In the state of Rajasthan, there has been a 35% reduction in seven years. According to local residents, the situation is a consequence of a 2015 law, desired by the BJP, that prohibits the transport, illegal possession and slaughter of camels, clashing with traditional breeding methods.
VIETNAM
This morning, one of Vietnam’s largest state broadcasters has suspended its broadcasts after a radical reform that implies a 20% cut in civil servants. Some Communist Party officials have called it a “revolution”: eight ministries and government agencies will suffer cuts and another four television networks have been forced to close.
RUSSIA
Despite the abandonment of Russia by Western companies, American companies still active in Russia (Philip Morris, PepsiCo, Mars, Procter&Gamble and others) paid more than $1 billion to the treasury out of the total of $30.5 billion in tax revenue. , more than they paid before the war due to increased taxes. American companies are followed by those from Germany (693 million) and Austria (579 million).
BELARUS
Starting in early 2025, in Belarus, child protection agencies will be able to more easily separate children from the care of their parents, thanks to a new regulation “on the dissemination of extremist material” that defines as “socially dangerous” people who spread criticism of Aleksandr Lukašenko’s regime on any “undesirable” social platform.
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