small island countries also demand compensation from China and India

Other news of the day: new North Korean missile test. The Burmese army continues to bombard the Sagaing region. Cardinal Sako calls for reconciliation between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Police reveal the name of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s assailant. Patriarch Kirill consecrates a new “military church” near Moscow.

CHINA-INDIA

At the Sharm El-Sheik Climate Conference, the Alliance of Small Island States it demands that China and India also pay financial compensation for the effects of climate change, and not just advanced economies. Beijing and Delhi are, respectively, the world’s first and third largest producers of polluting greenhouse gases.

NORTH KOREA

Pyongyang fired what, according to South Korean and Japanese authorities, appears to be a ballistic missile, in the umpteenth missile test of the Kim Jong-un regime this year. The missile was fired from North Korea’s eastern coast and sank in the Sea of ​​Japan, far from Tokyo’s exclusive economic zone.

MYANMAR

The coup junta continues to attack opponents in the Sagaing region, one of the most affected since the outbreak of the civil war, after the military coup in February 2021. artillery strikes in the village of Shein Ma Kar, a woman was killed and two of her relatives were injured.

IRAQ

The Chaldean Patriarch, Card. Louis Raphael Sako, appeals to the Dialogue between Sunni and Shia Muslims to resolve the different crises that are shaking the Middle East. According to the cardinal, reconciliation efforts are especially necessary to pacify countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.

PAKISTAN

Police released the name of the attacker who shot the former prime minister imran khan last week, injuring him in the leg. This is Mohammad Naveed, whom the security forces arrested at the scene immediately after the attack. The former prime minister accused the government of trying to assassinate him.

RUSSIA

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow consecrated another “military church”: it is dedicated to Saint Vladimir of kyiv and the Rosgvardija chaplaincy will function there. It is located in Balashika, on the outskirts of Moscow, where the Dzerzhinsky division operates, whose name honors the founder of the Cheka-Kgb, of which the National Guard is an offshoot. The statues of angels and armed saints that surround the temple act as “permanent sentinels” against satanic attacks.

TAJIKISTAN

Since the beginning of the military mobilization in Russia, reports of the unexplained disappearance of Tajik seasonal workers, especially young people in their 20s and 30s, have increased. The relatives do not rule out the possibility that they will be forcibly recruited to fight in Ukraine, and try in vain to get an answer through the Tajik embassy in Moscow.