Singapore sanctions four Israeli settlers. West Bank sees highest number of attacks in 20 years

Today's headlines: four more arrests in connection with the attack near the Red Fort in Delhi; Four Chinese and American citizens arrested for illegally exporting Nvidia chips to China; The (provisional) death toll from the floods in Vietnam rises to 41; Malaysia suspends funding to the football association over the forged documents scandal.

SINGAPORE - ISRAEL - PALESTINE

Singapore will impose financial sanctions on four Israelis and bar them from entering the country, accusing them of “egregious acts of extreme violence” against Palestinians in the West Bank, contrary to the two-state solution. Meanwhile, two Palestinian teenagers aged 16 and 18 were killed by Israeli forces in the Kafr Aqab neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, while the UN reports that Israeli settlers carried out 264 attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank in October, the highest monthly number recorded in the last 20 years.

INDIA

The Indian anti-terrorism agency said it had arrested four more people, including three doctors, in connection with last week's attack in Delhi near the Red Fort. It was the first attack of its kind in the heavily guarded capital in over a decade. A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 32 on 10 November. Of the four “main suspects”, three are from Indian Kashmir and one is from the city of Lucknow.

CHINA - UNITED STATES

Two Chinese and two American citizens have been arrested on charges of illegally exporting Nvidia chips with AI applications to China. Cham Li, 38, Jing Chen, 45, Hon Ning Ho, 34, and Brian Raymond, 46, are charged with conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) and money laundering. They allegedly conspired - receiving million from China - to export Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) via Malaysia and Thailand.

VIETNAM

Relentless rains and flooding have killed at least 41 people in central Vietnam, while the search continues for nine people still missing. According to reports, more than 52,000 homes have been submerged, and half a million families and businesses have been left without electricity. Over the last three days, rainfall has exceeded 1.5 metres, surpassing even the 5.2-metre peak recorded during the 1993 floods in some areas.

MALAYSIA

Malaysia has suspended funding to the football association (FAM) over a scandal involving the falsification of documents for some players. The government says the funds cannot be used to finance an appeal against FIFA's ruling. FIFA has imposed fines and suspensions on the players and initiated criminal proceedings after discovering that FAM had falsified the documents of seven foreign players. Two of these players scored in the victory against Vietnam in the Asian Cup qualifiers in June.

GEORGIA

More than a year has passed since the parliamentary elections in Georgia, which were deemed “rigged” by the opposition, who have been taking to the streets in varying degrees of participation since November 2024, suffering increasingly harsh and widespread repression to the point of reaching “Five minutes from autocracy”, as a lengthy report published by Reuters to understand the opinions of citizens in a country that was one of the leaders of democratic reforms at the end of the USSR.

RUSSIA

The Patriarch of Moscow, Kirill (Gundjaev), spoke at the All-Russian People's Council meeting in Moscow, giving his explanation of how to interpret the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” in times of war: when the enemy threatens the lives of the elderly and the young, it is not acceptable to remain unresponsive, remembering that ‘spiritual and military sacrifice are not only similar, they are equal and indivisible,’ and one cannot ‘help the murderer.’