News of the day: China is considering selling TikTok’s US operations to Elon Musk. The number of victims among Tibetan monks after last week’s earthquake is unknown. Nawaf Salam, president of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, is the new prime minister of Lebanon. More anti-government protests in Georgia, joined by the march of descendants of victims of Stalinist repressions.
SOUTH KOREA
The first hearing of the Constitutional Court of South Korea, which must decide whether or not to dismiss President Yoon Suk-yeol, It lasted only four minutes. due to the absence of the accused: Yoon’s lawyers had already made it known that the president would not appear in court because an arrest warrant for another charge of insurrection remains in force against him. The next hearing is scheduled for two days.
CHINA – USA
The Chinese authorities are considering selling TikTok’s US operations to Elon Musk to avoid a ban on the use of the application in the country. Beijing would prefer that the app remain the property of the parent company ByteDance, which has appealed to the US Supreme Court against the law that requires the sale of assets, but it is likely that in the coming days the judges will agree with the Government. US. Meanwhile, TikTok users in the US are migrating to a Chinese app called RedNotea TikTok competitor very popular among young people in China and Taiwan.
TIBET
At least two Buddhist monasteries were damaged by the strong earthquake that hit Tibet last week, but The number of victims among Tibetan clerics is still unknown. According to information published on the Internet, the earthquake, of magnitude 6.8, reduced the roofs and walls of a monastery and a female convent located about 15 km east of the epicenter, in the Chinese county of Tingri, to rubble. Some nuns were trapped under the rubble. But Chinese authorities did not reveal information about the damage suffered by places of worship.
BANGLADESH
Bangladesh’s anti-corruption agency has presented a series of allegations against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and some members of his family in a case of alleged theft of lucrative building land in a suburb of the capital, Dhaka. Hasina has been a refugee in India since August last year and tensions on the border have not decreased: yesterday Dhaka summoned the Indian ambassador and accused Delhi of building fences along the border and deploying security forces.
LEBANON
Nawaf Salam, president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, has been appointed new prime minister of Lebanona position that, in the system of sectarian division, falls to a Sunni Muslim. His appointment, following that of Joseph Aoun as president, contrasts with Hezbollah’s wishes: Mohammed Raad, a leading member of the Iran-backed Party of God, has accused his opponents of promoting fragmentation.
RUSSIA
The Natsionalnyj Tsentr Informatizatsii group, one of the main Russian IT companies, created by the state agency Rostekh, has declared bankruptcy, after 10 years of enormous state financing that has been exhausted and has not been renewed, abandoning the task of digitizing everything the Russian healthcare system, the Post Office and many other sectors of the economy.
GEORGIA
In addition to the continued protests in Tbilisi, descendants of the victims of the Stalinist repressions of 1937-1938, in which more than 30,000 Georgians died, marched from Philharmonic Square to Rustaveli Prospekt, joining other protesters in front of Parliament to ask for the release of those detained in recent days.
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