Thaksin’s daughter is running for the post of prime minister

Other news of the day: Erdogan wants 130 “terrorists” handed over to him to give the green light for Sweden and Finland to join NATO. Indian mafia boss Ibrahim is hiding out in Karachi. The new representative of Beijing takes office in Hong Kong. Japan: new governor of the Central Bank in February. The Vatican Secretary of State will visit Azerbaijan.

THAILAND

The daughter of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is running for prime minister in this year’s election. Paetongtarn Shinawatra will be presented by the Pheu Thai Party, heir to his father’s political formation. Both Thaksin and his sister Yingluck led governments overthrown by military coups.

TURKEY

To give the green light to its entry into NATO, Ankara asks Sweden and Finland the extradition of 130 people accused of “terrorism”. Most of them are Kurdish militants or figures alleged to have participated in the 2016 coup attempt.

INDIA

The most famous boss of organized crime in India, Dawood Ibrahim, is hiding in Karachi, Pakistan, where he allegedly remarried a local woman. A niece of his revealed it to the national security authorities. In addition to illegal trafficking of various kinds, he is accused of connections with the Pakistani government and enemy terrorist groups from Delhi.

HONG KONG-CHINA

zheng yanxiong took over as the new head of the Chinese central government’s Liaison Office in the former British colony, replacing Luo Huining. Until his appointment, he headed the local office for the protection of national security, which was created as a result of the draconian law imposed by Xi Jinping in 2020.

JAPAN

In all probability, on February 10, the Kishida government will present to Parliament the list of candidates to succeed Haruhiko Kuroda as head of the powerful Central Bank. The favorites are the current vice governor Masayoshi Amamiya and his predecessors Hiroshi Nakaso and Hirohide Yamaguchi.

RUSSIA

Following the appeal of hundreds of doctors, a large group of Russian lawyers also addressed an open letter to President Putin asking for an end to the persecution and humiliation inflicted on Aleksej Naval’nyj. “A real torture,” says his spokesperson, lawyer Viktor Drozdov, who refers to the politician as “a colleague” who is denied his rights.

AZERBAIJAN-VATICAN

The Vatican Secretary of State, Card. Parolin will visit Azerbaijan this year. The decision was announced after a meeting with the ambassador of that country to the Holy See, Ilgar Mukhtarov, who stressed “the importance of Baku’s relations with the Vatican for the exchange of views on dialogue between civilizations and religions.” ”.