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Today's headlines: the US imposes new sanctions on Burma's coup junta, but without hitting major projects. In China at least 31 people died in a restaurant explosion. The South Korean president arrived in Vietnam today. Pakistan will grant the port of Karachi to the Emirates in exchange for emergency funds. The Catholic Archbishop of Moscow interviewed by Ria Novosti about the Vatican's peace initiatives.

Thousands of documents have been published on Arkadij and Boris Rotenberg, among those closest to Putin and owners of the 'president's castle' denounced by Naval'nyj. In the network of frontmen in charge of their financial and personal affairs, even a cousin of Queen Elizabeth. Even after the invasion of Ukraine business not touched by sanctions especially in Monaco, Cyprus and Luxembourg.

Today's headlines: Japan's emperor and empress visit a cemetery for independence heroes in Indonesia; Glaciers in the Hindu Kush are melting at an "unprecedented" rate; An activist for independent Sikh state is killed in Canada; Five Palestinians killed in Jenin; In Taiwan kindergarten teachers accused of drugging children; Two Pakistanis aboard submarine lost in Atlantic.

Archaeologist Maria Očir-Gorjaeva: "Imperial states have their own parabola, the flattening of ethnic groups cannot last indefinitely. The independence of the peoples of the Caucasus would also and especially serve the Russians, in a federal unity left only to global issues."

Today's headlines: Thai government holds peace talks in Myanmar but Asean countries decline invitation; Nearly 100 deaths in India from heat waves; Qatar wants to reduce Iraq's energy dependence on Iran; Russia and Algeria vow they "will never be enemies."

The real measure of Ukraine’s counteroffensive will not be military but its psychological and informational impact on public opinion, at home, in the West, and in Russia itself. Meanwhile, the aura of Ukraine’s top military man, General Zaluzhnyi, is shining almost as brightly as Zelensky’s.

Today's headlines: Pyongyang fires two short-range ballistic missiles, "inevitable" response to exercises between South Korea and the US; Tehran denies Hajj permit to Iranian Sunni leader critical of protest crackdown; Taliban officials in Norway to attend peace forum; Indonesian special needs students victimized by serious deficiencies in education system; Japan studies limits on access to Mt. Fuji; New tobacco law in Russia.

Today's headlines: Philippines launches tourist tours to disputed territories on Spratly Islands. Indonesian Constitutional Court rejects request to change electoral system. Japanese opposition ready to file no-confidence vote against Kishida. Indian nun arrested on conversion charges released on bail. Last year nearly 3800 people died on migration routes from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe, the largest increase from Lebanon. With the vacations come an increase in children begging in Turkmenistan.

The risk of a forced and prolonged drought as a consequence of the Nova Khakovka dam explosion is just the latest of the heavy wounds left on the peninsula by seven years grappling with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The harsh repression of the Tatars, the collapse of tourism, and the trenches and fortifications that have stripped farmers of their land among the consequences of the "mobilization."

Today's headlines: in Japan military opens fire on instructors, at least two dead and one wounded. Riyadh draws up $20 billion investment plan in food industry. Tens of thousands evacuated between India and Pakistan for Cyclone Biparjov, already seven casualties. Istanbul, doctors on alert for measles outbreak: first casualties among children. Taipei issues defense manual to "distinguish" Chinese soldiers from Taiwanese.

Today's headlines: Afghan Taliban against music and dancing at weddings; Burmese junta shuts down oil wells in Magway, over 300,000 workers at risk, Beijing studies a new "water network" against drought, Holland and Canada want to try Damascus in the International Court for torture; Bhutan sets its sights on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency to build a 600-megawatt power plant; Tehran ready to build an assault drone factory in Russia.

Demonstrations against the government, which President Maia Sandu accuses of being directly inspired by the Kremlin, have been going on in Chisinau since September. With Moscow's rejection of gas, inflation in the country has reached 33%. A profile of the young Tel Aviv-born oligarch who with his own party from abroad (due to a conviction for fraud) pulls the strings of the opposition.