Today’s news: Pakistan develops long-range ballistic missiles. In Hong Kong also drones, artificial intelligence and new surveillance cameras. Adylbek Kasymaliev has been named the new Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan. The Syrian provisional government wants to create special courts for those who committed crimes during the regime.
MYANMAR
Myanmar’s military is also imploding from within: the BBC reports on the case of spies secretly working for pro-democracy rebels. The military only has full control over less than a quarter of Myanmar’s territory. The junta continues to control major cities and remains “extremely dangerous,” according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar. But it has lost significant territory in the last 12 months. The spy soldiers appear loyal to the army, but secretly work for pro-democracy rebels.
PAKISTAN
Pakistan, which has a nuclear arsenal, is developing long-range ballistic missiles that could allow it to attack targets far beyond South Asia, making it an “emerging threat” even to the United States. The surprising revelation by Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer underscores how once-close ties between Washington and Islamabad have deteriorated since the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021.
HONG KONG
Hong Kong authorities are stepping up surveillance of the city’s 7 million residents with plans to deploy automated police drones, artificial intelligence and thousands of new cameras in public places, including taxis, according to a recent Government announcement. Police are currently installing another 2,000 surveillance cameras in public places, including the controversial smart streetlights that protesters protested against in 2019.
KYRGYZSTAN
President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Žaparov officially appoints Adylbek Kasymaliev as new prime minister and head of the presidential administration, also appointing the new Deputy Prime Minister Daniar Amangeldiev and the new Minister of Economy, Bakyta Sydykova, explaining that the previous Prime Minister Akylbek Žaparov was dismissed for “violation of the tax system”, urging not to “politicize the issue ».
SYRIA
The new Syrian rulers have pledged to create special courts for those who “committed crimes against Syrians” under the regime of deposed President Bashar al Assad, according to the spokesman for the interim government. In an interview with Al Jazeera’s Osama bin Javaid, Obaid Arnaut stated that a key part of the mission of the new government, which inaugurates a “new era”, is to restore the population’s confidence in the rule of law and the system judicial of the country.
RUSSIA – UKRAINE – NORTH KOREA
According to what Currentime military affairs specialists inform us, in the Kursk region attacks are taking place against Ukrainian positions by groups of North Korean soldiers, whose ranks have been replaced by new units after serious losses suffered, with the attack tactic front in compact ranks under Russian cover passing over the corpses of comrades, literally like “cannon fodder.”
ARMENIA
The director of the consulting company Ameria, Tigran Džrbašyan, declared that Armenia faces a “difficult demographic challenge”, which he described as a “perfect storm”, given the global decline in birth rates as a consequence of women’s activism in the social sphere. , the predominance of industry over agriculture and the transmigration of the population from the countryside to the cities, and Armenians also participate in these processes.
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