Dario Salvi

Daw Ni Ni May Myint, Daw Chit Chit Chaw and U Min Aun are running for office in Taungup. For their release, the kidnappers demand the release of detained Rakhine politicians and students arrested in recent protests. For the rebels, the NLD is “democratic authoritarian regime”.

From coffee to cheese, Saudi supermarkets are taking products from Turkey off their shelves. An unofficial and undeclared trade war, so as not to incur WTO sanctions. According to Ankara, the Saudi companies forced to sign letters in which they undertake "not to import products".

Card Sako and the bishops approve a new missal to respond to the challenges imposed by modernity. A renewal to take up the demands of the faithful and promote the understanding of the many faithful of Islam who follow Christian services. Mass "is not a museum, but a common heritage to speak to the people".

At the funeral of a colleague who died of the new coronavirus, the Medical Guild attacks the executive on the pandemic. The numbers "are a big lie". At least 120 health workers have died so far since the start of the health emergency. The AKP's "erroneous policies" have increased the number of victims.

The White House has sent an important official to talk with Syrian authorities in order to secure the release of two Americans. For some, this is the first contact after many years, but others note that two other meetings did occur previously. For the Syrian government, the withdrawal of US troops is a precondition to talks. Fr Kassar notes that Card Zenari is one of the few people who remembers the tragedy of ordinary people who have to wait in line for hours to buy bread, and have no fuel for the winter. For them, COVID-19 is one of many problems.

Floods hit a region already in the grips of a health emergency due to the new coronavirus pandemic. In Vietnam, the death toll is 90 and at least 34 people are missing. In Laos 100 villages flooded, submerged, at least 10 thousand hectares of cultivated land. In Cambodia 25 victims and 40 thousand displaced. Dams and barriers increase the scale of the disaster.

This is the project that animated the annual meeting of the Vietnamese Bishops' Conference. Msgr. Alphongso Nguyễn Hữu Long wants to rebuild a work started in 1971 and interrupted due to the war. Among the examples of youth mission is the Italian Carlo Acutis, the first blessed of the digital age.

Since a truce was agreed in October 2019, Turkey’s military and allied militias have attacked Syrian (and Iraqi) territory hundreds of times, an average of 2.3 violations per day, including battles, bombings, looting and drone strikes. Tel Tamer, a largely Christian area, is one of the affected areas. The goal is demographic change.

The signing took place yesterday in Manama, in the context of an official visit by a mixed Israeli-US delegation. The goal is to strengthen the regional alliance in an anti-Iranian key. Major agreements in trade, telecommunications, financial, banking and agricultural sector.

The head of the private hospitals association sounds the alarm, warning that “Hospitals are completely full. We don’t know where to put patients any more.” The country’s 127 private hospitals have made available so far only 400 beds for patients affected by the novel coronavirus, including a hundred intensive care beds. Lockdown is once again the only solution to reduce the burden on the health care system.

The head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi, signs the ban in order to boost transparency in the legal system and uphold the presumption of innocence. In the past, the UN, Western countries and NGOs have repeatedly criticised Iran for human rights abuses and violations.

Under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross, operations involving Houthi rebels and pro-Saudi government have begun. The agreement, reached last month in Switzerland, is the most important with a view to detente between the parties. Two US hostages freed and the remains returned of a third, who died during his imprisonment.