Today's news: reports of workplace abuse have doubled in South Korea in five years; Baghdad will send 10 million liters of fuel to the Gaza Strip; Public apology from a company in Malaysia for a shoe logo that resembles the word "Allah"; The Taliban have built a wall around the Eidgah mosque in Kandahar for fear of ISIS attacks: Moscow has slowed issuing work permits to migrants from Central Asia.
Today's news: Three killed overnight in Gaza as Israeli police arrest dozens after al-Aqsa prayer; In Taiwan over 600 earthquake victims still waiting to be rescued; In India, consumer confidence is at its highest level since 2019; Hundreds of arrests in a joint police operation against child pornography in Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong.
This morning Francis received in audience the participants in the first meeting between the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. In his address, he underlined three "aspects" to focus on, namely respect for diversity, environmental commitment to the common home, and the promotion of peace.
Today's news: Pakistani court suspends sentence against former premier Imran Khan; Southeast Asians would rather side with China than the US; Pyongyang launches another missile towards the coast; King of Malaysia signals the end of 'honeymoon' for head of Anti-Corruption Commission; In Kazakhstan this year's floods were the most disastrous in three decades.
According to data from the Eurasia Development Bank (Eabr), the trade balance of Eurasian countries with China increased by 16% in the first ten months of 2023. While infrastructure is growing to strengthen open new corridors with Beijing, such as the Kazakhstan Bakhti-Ayagoz railway line that will offer a third major passage from China.
After years of calling politics 'the empire of evil', the publisher Ermurat Bapi - a long-standing antagonist of former president Nazarbayev - from Mažilis now fights for the return of assets stolen abroad and participates in the drafting of the new media law. Explaining: 'We must open gaps and create bridges, bringing the upper echelons closer to the masses'.
