An actor playing a spy shows off his multiple identity cards in a propaganda video released by China’s Ministry of State Security to warn the public about foreign spies. Ministry of State Security

By Nectar Gan, CNN Published 8:38 PM EDT, Sun April 21, 2024

TĐH: China sees ghost everywhere and this sickly fear will pull China down to the abyss. You can’t live with fear for so long

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In a slick video marking the National Security Education Day, China’s top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere.

As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion photographer, a lab technician, a businessman and a food delivery driver – he even sets up an online honey trap – to glean sensitive state secrets in various places and industries.

TƯỜNG ANH – 19/04/2024 10:32 GMT+7

TTCT – Các suy đoán về thời gian, địa điểm và cách thức Tehran hoặc các đồng minh của họ sẽ phản ứng trước cuộc tấn công vào lãnh sự quán Iran ở Damascus đã kết thúc vào rạng sáng 14-4, khi cuối cùng, Iran tuyên bố khởi sự chiến dịch “True Promise”.

Trong chiến dịch Lời hứa chân thật này, Tehran đã thực hiện một cuộc không kích chưa từng có vào các mục tiêu quân sự ở Israel, với sự tham gia của hơn 350 máy bay không người lái (UAV) và tên lửa hành trình.

Lực lượng phòng không Israel, với sự hỗ trợ của không quân Mỹ, Jordan và Anh, đã chặn nhiều UAV và một số tên lửa trên bầu trời Syria, Iraq và Jordan vào khoảng 2h sáng giờ địa phương. Các UAV và tên lửa khác thì bị hệ thống phòng không Iron Dome (Vòm sắt) phá hủy trên lãnh thổ Israel.

ĐỖ KH. – 5/04/2024 10:01 GMT+7

TTCT – Do Thái, Ki-tô và Hồi giáo là ba tôn giáo cùng dòng độc thần Abraham ở Trung Đông, chung khu vực và xuất xứ. Họ cùng thờ một đấng tối cao Yahve, Thượng đế, hay Allah. Tổ phụ Abraham hay Avraham hay Ibrahim trong 3 tôn giáo này cũng là 1 người.

Những đảo Ông Hoàng (Adalar) ở trước thành phố Istanbul (Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ) rất đẹp. Tôi đang ở bến phà Buyakada, trên đảo lớn nhất, thì giật mình. 

Bỗng đâu xuất hiện 5-7 thanh niên râu ria mặc áo dài đen tuyền đến chân làm hết hồn, thoạt nhìn tưởng khủng bố IS (Nhà nước Hồi giáo) trên đường hành quân. Nhưng họ không phải Hồi giáo vì có đeo thập giá và là một nhóm tu sĩ của chủng viện Ki-tô Chính thống giáo Aya Yorgi trên đảo đang tính đáp phà về đất liền.

Nếu bạn là người Hồi và kiêng cữ thức ăn theo đúng đạo thì ở New York bạn không có vấn đề gì cả. Bang này có trên 2 triệu người Do Thái, tức trên 10% dân số. Để phục vụ kiêng cữ của họ về thực phẩm, tới lon nước ngọt Coca Cola cũng phải hợp giáo luật (kosher). 

Nhưng thế thì dính dáng gì đến người Hồi? Người Hồi có luật về thực phẩm của họ (halal) và luật này rộng rãi hơn kosher. Bất cứ món gì đạt tiêu chuẩn kosher đều khắt khe và cao hơn tiêu chuẩn halal.

By Simone McCarthy, CNN

Updated 12:18 AM EDT, Thu April 11, 2024 CNN

Chinese official Zhao Leji attends a session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last month. Mark Schiefelbein/AP

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China’s highest-level visit to North Korea in nearly five years is set to get underway Thursday, as Pyongyang seeks to strengthen relations with both Beijing and Moscow amid growing coordination between its neighbors and the United States.

Both sides try to claim victory after Iranian aerial attack on Israel, AP explains Videos

BY TIA GOLDENBERG AND JOSEF FEDERMANUpdated 7:20 AM GMT+7, April 15, 2024Share

Follow AP’s live updates on Iran’s attack against Israel.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli leaders on Sunday credited an international military coalition with helping thwart a direct Iranian attack involving hundreds of drones and missiles, calling the coordinated response a starting point for a “strategic alliance” of regional opposition to Tehran.

The center-left Democratic Party added to its legislative majority after the recent parliamentary election, which would deal a blow to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s domestic reform agenda and possibly his efforts to improve ties with Japan.

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What are the major takeaways from the National Assembly elections in South Korea?

South Koreans went to the polls on April 10 to elect every member of the unicameral National Assembly. To the chagrin of President Yoon Suk Yeol, his conservative People Power Party (PPP) did not secure a majority. PPP lost six seats from 114 to 108 and DPP and allies gained thirty seats from 157 to 187.

The United Nations chief is blaming Israel’s military strategy and procedures for the killing of nearly 200 humanitarian workers and is calling for independent investigations to fix those failures and practices.Photos

BY JULIA FRANKEL, AP Updated 7:02 PM GMT+7, April 6, 2024

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel-Hamas war has stretched on for half a year and become one of the most destructive, deadly, and intractable conflicts of the 21st century.

Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 cross-border attack, Israel has pummeled the Gaza Strip, displacing the vast majority of the population and causing many to flee to Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah. Food is scarce, the U.N. says famine is approaching and few Palestinians have been able to leave the besieged territory.

Meanwhile, Hamas continues to fire rockets into Israel from Gaza, and Hezbollah and other militant groups do so from southern Lebanon, prompting tit-for-tat fighting that has displaced thousands of civilians on both sides of Israel’s borders. Hamas is still holding hostages taken during the Oct. 7 raid, as well as the bodies of some who died in captivity. And cease-fire talks stretch on with no end in sight.

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Palestinians flee from the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza after an Israeli ground and air offensive on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Associated Press photographers have captured what six months of devastating war have brought for Israel and for Palestinians. At its six-month mark, it is not clear what direction the war will now take. Weeks of mediation by the U.S., Egypt and Qatar for a longer cease-fire have so far been unable to make a breakthrough. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

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Updated 10:27 PM EDT, Tue April 2, 2024

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesWashingtonCNN — 

President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, marking the first conversation between the leaders since their historic in-person summit in November and the latest in ongoing efforts by US and Chinese officials to defuse tensions between the two superpowers.

CNA Insider – 28-3-2024

Over the last twenty years, China’s influence in the Middle East has grown substantially. China has major economic partnerships with Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and also Israel.

How is the war in Gaza impacting these investments? Can China be a peace mediator between Israel and Hamas? And how do the current events in the Middle East impact great power competition between the United States and China? Continue reading China’s role in the Middle East: Can China be a peace mediator between Israel and Hamas? →

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Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly

4 March 2024, New York

Mr. President,

Excellencies, 

I am here today because UNRWA, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, is at a breaking point.

75 years after its creation by this Assembly as a temporary UN entity, pending a just political solution to the question of Palestine, the Agency’s ability to fulfil its mandate is seriously threatened.

Your urgent action is needed to facilitate a political solution that will bring peace to Palestinians and Israelis, and in this context alone, allow the Agency to transition.