Presidential pardon for Samsung heir

Other news of the day: China and Nepal announce a network of roads and railways through the Himalayas. In Cambodia, protests by former NagaWorld Casino staff. The famous Mullah Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani is assassinated in Afghanistan. Uncertainty about the Pope’s trip to Lebanon. Russia’s population continues to decline.

SOUTH KOREA

presidential pardon for the vice president and heir to the giant Samsung, It is about Lee Jae-yong, who has just served two and a half years in prison for a corruption case in which former president Park Geun-hye is also involved. The 1,691 people pardoned do not include former President Lee Myung-bak, who remains in prison for bribery.

CHINA-NEPAL

Beijing and Kathmandu have reached an agreement to build the railway network Trans-Himalayan Multi-Dimensional Connectivity Network. The project is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and involves the construction of railways and other communication routes between the two countries.

CAMBODIA

They don’t stop Protests by former NagaWorld Casino workers. Yesterday, about a hundred of them, mainly women, clashed with the police in Phnom Penh. The protesters are among the 1,300 people who were fired from the casino last December and are demanding their reinstatement or payment of adequate compensation.

AFGHANISTAN

Victim of a suicide attack, he died yesterday Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, a high level cleric. The attack took place in his office: the terrorist detonated a bomb inserted in his artificial leg. The Afghan branch of ISIS claimed responsibility for the killing. Despite being a supporter of the Taliban, Haqqani was known for promoting female education in the country, which the government of the integralist group opposes.

LEBANON

The Pope will visit Lebanon when the Vatican “deems it useful”. This was stated yesterday by Monsignor Joseph Spiteri, who leaves the position of apostolic nuncio in Beirut to occupy the same position in Mexico. The Vatican diplomat added that the pontiff is “in continuous contact with the countries involved in the Lebanese crisis.”

RUSSIA

According to the Russian National Statistical Institute, Rosstat, from January to May, the Russian population decreased by 430,000 people -considering a total of 142.7 million inhabitants, plus the 2 million of the annexed Crimea. The trend is much worse than in 2021, when the decline was about one million people.

UKRAINE

In the last two weeks, more than 20 parishes of the former Moscow Ukrainian Church (UPZ) have joined the kyiv Autocephalous Church (PZU). Currently there are 1,200 of the 12,000 communities that have moved from one jurisdiction to another, mainly in the Khmelnytsky region.