In China, authorities stated they may quickly shoot down an ufo over waters close to the northern metropolis of Rizhao, The South China Morning Publish reported.

Turkey pledges to research contractors

Turkey vowed to pursue contractors linked to lethal constructing collapses after an earthquake killed greater than 33,000 folks there and in neighboring Syria final week.

The nation’s justice minister instructed reporters on Sunday that 134 folks had been detained on costs associated to collapsed buildings. Greater than 24,000 buildings out of some 170,000 surveyed had been closely broken or had collapsed, its atmosphere minister stated.

Constructing consultants are blaming inferior development for at the least a number of the collapses, and Turkish engineers and designers are gathering samples of rubble from the quake zone that may very well be used as proof.

Rescuers had been nonetheless looking the rubble in Turkey on Sunday, and two folks, together with a 6-year-old boy, had been pulled from ruins after having survived for about 150 hours.

Context: Turkey upgraded its constructing codes after an earthquake in 1999 killed greater than 17,000 folks, however consultants stated the codes had been usually ignored. One city planner stated that the issue was systemic and that concentrating on solely contractors wouldn’t repair it.

Syria: Virtually no support has reached northern Syria due to the advanced political state of affairs that greater than 12 years of civil conflict has created there. Some Syrians stated the earthquake was worse than something they’d endured in the course of the conflict.

Russian troopers stated that earlier than they might be a part of the unit they needed to bear an in depth background test that included polygraph checks. Russian spies have repeatedly tried to infiltrate the Legion, a spokesman for Ukraine’s navy intelligence service stated.

Nonetheless, the Legion has earned sufficient belief from Ukrainian commanders to take its place within the Ukrainian navy, and several other hundred Legion members are actually concentrated close to Bakhmut, a strategically important metropolis in japanese Ukraine.

Motivation: The troopers have taken up arms due to ethical outrage, a want to defend their adopted homeland of Ukraine or a visceral dislike of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.

Quotable: “An actual Russian man doesn’t interact in such an aggressive conflict, gained’t rape kids, kill ladies and aged folks,” stated one fighter. “That’s why I don’t have regret. I do my job, and I’ve killed lots of them.”

What’s subsequent: These maps present what the following section of the conflict would possibly appear like.

Extra information of the conflict: The Wagner paramilitary group stated it had captured a village close to Bakhmut. Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner’s billionaire chief, has grow to be a distinguished public determine, elevating questions on his political ambitions.

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Lives Lived: Grasp Hsing Yun constructed a world community of Buddhist temples that helped popularize the religion in China, whose authorities had lengthy been hostile to faith. He died at 95.

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Stemming inhabitants decline

There’s little or no {that a} authorities can do to reverse a shrinking inhabitants. Most initiatives that encourage households to have extra kids are costly, and the outcomes are sometimes restricted.

Specialists say the best efforts tackle social welfare, employment coverage and different underlying financial points. When Sweden expanded its parental depart within the Seventies, as an example, its fertility price rose, and it stays one in all the best amongst superior economies. However it has trended downward over the previous decade, like these of most developed international locations.

Nonetheless, China may study from Sweden’s instance. Housing subsidies, prolonged parental depart and elevated funding for schooling and pensions may ease the burdens on younger households. That would sluggish the shrink and even stave off an financial downturn.

Associated: A Yale professor recommended “mass suicide” for Japan’s older folks to deal with the nation’s quickly growing older society. He later stated his feedback had been taken out of context, however they’ve pushed the nation’s hottest button.

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P.S. The phrase “depackagers,” used to outline garbage-sorting robots, appeared for the primary time in The Instances yesterday, in an article about Phoenix’s preparations for the Tremendous Bowl.

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