China will build a new nuclear power plant in Pakistan

Today's headlines: Police in India still use carrier pigeons; Rohingya refugees will be allowed access to university in Malaysia; In Vietnam, Facebook continues to censor content unwelcome to the Communist Party; The Knesset wants to prevent a summer camp for Israeli and Palestinian orphans; Moldova declares a pro-Russian party illegal.

CHINA - PAKISTAN

The China National Nuclear Cooperation and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission have signed a .8 billion agreement to build a nuclear power plant, Chashma 5, in the eastern province of Punjab. Work on the project will begin immediately, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said. Two years ago, the country's sixth nuclear power plant was inaugurated in Pakistan.

MALAYSIA

Malaysia's Education Minister announced that Rohingya refugees in the country will have the opportunity to study at the International Islamic University thanks to a million donation from the Qatar Development Fund. Responding to the criticism, Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said, "This will not compromise the sovereignty of the country. We are one of the civilised countries that understand that we have to help the refugees".

VIETNAM

According to former Meta employees and human rights activists, Facebook, in order to retain large numbers of users, has made several concessions to Vietnam's authoritarian government, systematically censoring dissent and allowing those seen as threats to be kicked off the platform. Meta adopted an internal list of Vietnamese Communist Party officials who should not be criticised on Facebook and included it in the content moderation guidelines.

INDIA

The police in the eastern state of Orissa continue to use carrier pigeons in case of communication breakdown during natural disasters. This is a service that dates back to the rule of the British colonial empire. "We kept the pigeons for their historical value and to preserve them for future generations," explained Satish Kumar Gajbhiye, Inspector General of Police in Cuttack district.

ISRAEL

During a meeting of the Knesset Education Committee, Likud MP Hanoch Milwidsky warned the director of the Ben Shemen Youth Village that it will not be able to host a summer camp for orphaned Israeli and Palestinian children sponsored by the Parents Circle organisation this summer, threatening to closely scrutinise all public funds allocated to the initiative.

RUSSIA

Moscow Duma Speaker Volodin urged all relokanty, the Russians who fled abroad due to the war, to return by 2 July, after which date they would lose their Russian Federation tax residency and suffer a tax increase from 13% to 30%. According to Putin, 'half of the Russians abroad have already returned', and of those abroad only 9% still work for remote Russian firms. A third of the relokanty consider their condition 'very heavy'.

MOLDOVA

The Constitutional Court of Moldova recognised the pro-Russian party 'Šor' as illegal. The deputies elected with it can continue their parliamentary activity as independents, as the party 'acted in contradiction to the priority of the law, endangering the sovereignty and independence of the republic', and called for its complete liquidation.

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