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- Business Standard
China issues safety warning for its nationals studying in Philippines
China's Education Ministry issued a safety warning for Chinese students in the Philippines after what it said were a series of criminal incidents targeting them. The brief warning Friday did not identify any specific incidents but told students to increase their safety awareness should they choose to study in the Philippines. The number of Chinese students in the country was not given but enrolments have fallen to just a few hundred in recent years, according to the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post. Relations between the governments of China and the Philippines are particularly tense due to disputes over maritime claims in the South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety. China has used water cannons and other non-lethal shipboard deterrents to drive off Philippine fishing boats. Politically, China has dismissed a UN-backed court decision in The Hague that ruled out most of China's claims in the South China Sea and has expressed resentment over close ties between the US and Manila. China often disrupts cultural and economic ties to register their discontent over actions by foreign governments. In April, China issued a similar warning about the risk to Chinese students in the United States.
India Today
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- India Today
Masood Azhar seen in POK, 1,000 km away from Bahawalpur bastion, shows intel
Fresh intelligence inputs seen by India Today suggest that India's most wanted terrorist, Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, has been spotted in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's Gilgit-Baltistan region, more than 1,000 km away from his Bahawalpur was recently seen in Skardu, specifically around the Sadpara Road locality. The area hosts at least two mosques, affiliated madrasas, and multiple private and government guest as a tourist hub with attractive lakes and nature parks, it is a low-profile setting for the chief of a UN-proscribed terror outfit. The latest intel inputs accessed by India Today suggest Masood Azhar has moved over a thousand km from his stronghold, Bahawalpur The revelation comes after Pakistan's former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari recently claimed that Azhar might be in Afghanistan. He even suggested that Islamabad would hand him over to India if he was found on Pakistani soil."If and when the Indian government shares information with us that he is on Pakistani soil, we would be more than happy to arrest him," Bhutto told Al Jazeera in a recent has been the mastermind of several terror activities in India, including the 2016 Pathankot airbase attack and the 2019 Pulwama attack, which left over 40 soldiers dead. Indian intelligence agencies are closely tracking Azhar's movements even as Jaish's online platforms push deliberate misinformation, recycling old audio clips of his speeches to suggest he remained at his long-time Bahawalpur has two known establishments there - Jamia Subhan Allah, Jaish's headquarters targeted by India during Operation Sindoor, and Jamia Usman O Ali, a mosque located in a densely populated part of the city where his old residence also stands in proximity to a have said that India's strikes on Jamia Subhan Allah killed 10 members of Azhar's family. Satellite overview of two old hideouts of Masood Azhar in Bahawalpur. Jamia Subhan Allah (on left seen visibly damaged during Operation Sindoor). Satellite Image: Google Earth/ Airbus Satellite image of Masood Azhar's old house and mosque, Jamia Usman O Ali in Bahawalpur. Satellite Image: Google Earth/Airbus Sanctioned by India, the US and the United Nations, Azhar is believed to be responsible for several terror attacks in India, including the attack on Parliament in was once in Indian custody before his associates hijacked an aircraft and exchanged Azhar for the release of passengers. Soon after his release, Azhar founded Jaish e Mohammad. Masood Azhar's most recent sightings in Skardu This isn't the first time that Azhar has been shifted out of Bahawalpur. After the 2019 Balakot air strikes, he was moved from Bahawalpur to a discreet safe house in is not the only terrorist leader who has found safe sanctuary in Pakistan. Another designated terrorist and chief of terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, Syed Salahuddin, is believed to be operating from a posh locality in Islamabad. Syed Salahuddin's hideout in Islamabad. Satellite Image: Google Earth/Airbus He also has a working office in another densely populated suburban locality in Burma Town, where he is often seen accompanied by gunmen.- Ends
NDTV
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- NDTV
US Destroys 500 Tons Of Expired Food Aid, Assures Won't Affect Distribution
Washington: The State Department says its destruction of 500 metric tons of emergency food aid that was stored in a warehouse in the Middle East was required because it had expired and that the move will not affect the distribution of similar assistance moving forward. The high energy biscuits - used primarily to provide immediate nutritional needs for children in crisis situations - had been stored in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to respond to emergencies and could no longer be safely sent to potential recipients, so it was destroyed, department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters, Thursday. The issue, first reported by The Atlantic, has been raised repeatedly in congressional hearings this week, with Democratic lawmakers accusing the Trump administration of creating a crisis and ignoring urgent humanitarian needs by suspending most foreign assistance in its first month in office. The administration already has dismantled the US Agency for International Development, the nation's main agency for distributing food aid abroad, and is currently trying to rescind billions of dollars in foreign assistance. It comes as 319 million people around the world are facing acute hunger, and people in places like Gaza, Sudan, South Sudan, Mali and Haiti are teetering on the brink of starvation, according to the UN World Food Program. Bruce said the amount destroyed was less than 1% of the 1 million metric tons of food assistance that the United States supplies each year and suggested that the destroyed stockpile would be replaced. But she could not say if the Trump administration would continue to provide the 1 million metric tons going forward. "If something is expired, we will destroy it," Bruce said, brushing aside appeals for the administration to either distribute the assistance itself or give it to aid agencies who could do so. "It's a matter of whether or not it's safe to distribute." Bruce said destroying expired stockpiled food - which is generally stored in warehouses near regions or countries at risk for drought, famine and other disasters - are not unprecedented and have occurred under previous administrations that have not pursued draconian cuts in foreign assistance. The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen, asked Deputy Secretary of State for Management, Michael Rigas on Wednesday about the destruction of the food. The New Hampshire senator secured a commitment from Rigas to produce an inventory of current food aid stockpiles and a pledge from the administration to try to distribute warehoused assistance before it expires. "If the State Department doesn't have the officials to distribute it, let's give it to other aid organisations so that they can distribute it, so it's not going to waste and that people are getting the benefit of not only what American taxpayers pay for, but the people who are truly desperate," Shaheen said. She noted there are stocks of cooking oil sitting in a Houston port and food aid stored in Djibouti that may soon expire. Rigas said the administration's intention was not to deliberately allow food aid to expire and go to waste.
