Remnants of Typhoon Doksuri are devastating central and northern China. Several cities are on high alert due to the most intense rains and storms in the last decade in the region, which have left at least 11 dead and 27 missing, according to the latest official balance released Tuesday by local authorities.

Among the dead are two emergency services workers who lost their lives while carrying out rescue work, local newspaper the Beijing Daily reported.

The rainfall has affected more than 44,000 people and forced the evacuation of some 127,000, according to the newspaper

Typhoon Doksuri, which made landfall on the coast of the city of Jinjiang in the southeastern province of Fujian on Friday morning, continues its path through the center and north of the country, the state news agency Xinhua reported.

According to the China National Meteorological Center, the average rainfall in Beijing reached 157.8mm, while a maximum rainfall exceeded 538mm in a village in suburban Fangshan district, triggering a landslide that forced to evacuate more than 10,000 residents.

In turn, the Mentougou district of the capital, with average rainfall of 320 mm that caused the overflow of the river that crosses the area, had to evacuate 5,000 of its inhabitants and reported two people killed by the floods this Monday afternoon. .

More than 200 bus lines suspended

The most affected areas in the capital are the western, southern and urban regions, which has led to the evacuation of more than 45,000 people and the suspension of operations of more than 200 bus lines and several train routes in suburban areas.

In Hebei province, meteorological authorities forecast cumulative rainfall is likely to exceed 250mm in some areas.

Affected cities in the region include Zhangjiakou, Chengde, Tangshan, Baoding, Xiong'an New Area, Langfang and Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital.

Specifically, the city of Baoding has been hard hit by powerful flooding, leading to the evacuation of more than 54,890 people.

The flood risk level in north Baoding, where a bridge collapsed causing two trucks to fall into the water and one person missing, reached level II, the second highest.

Typhoon Khanun is coming

Meanwhile, a new typhoon, Khanun, is approaching the Philippines, following a path similar to that of Doksuri.

The typhoon has gained strength as it moves towards the northern waters of the archipelago, raising concerns in a country still reeling from the impact of Typhoon Doksuri, which left at least 25 people dead and more than 300,000 homeless.

Meanwhile, the authorities in Beijing are taking all the necessary measures to protect the population and minimize the damage caused by these heavy rains and storms, given the forecast that the meteorological phenomenon will continue for the next few days in northern China and that the Typhoon Khanun will affect the south of the country in the near future.

The Russian authorities have denounced a new night attack by Ukraine in the Russian capital, Moscow, which has forced the temporary closure of the Moscow Vnukovo airport.

Emergency services have informed the TASS news agency that both arrivals and departures from the airport have been suspended and planes are being redirected to other airports.

The Russian Defense Ministry has detailed that two drones have been shot down by air defense systems, while a third has been “suppressed by electronic warfare and has crashed in the city of Moscow” in non-residential buildings.

“On the night of August 1, an attempted terrorist attack by the Kiev regime with unmanned aerial vehicles against facilities in the city of Moscow and the Moscow region has been thwarted,” a ministry spokesman explained, according to the report. said news agency.

The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobianin, reported minutes before that several drones trying to fly over the capital have been shot down by air defense systems, despite the fact that one has hit a building.

“A drone has managed to hit the same tower as the previous time. The facade of the building at the height of the 21st floor has been damaged,” Sobianin said on his Telegram channel.

Sobyanin has indicated that at the moment there is no information on possible victims, while the emergency services are at the scene of the incident.

This attack comes less than two days after a similar attack in which three Ukrainian drones headed for the capital, two of which ended up crashing into office buildings in the city center, slightly injuring one woman. person, and suspending the activity of Vnukovo.

Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Ukraine at the end of May for “terrorist” drone attacks in the capital, suggesting that such incidents seek to “provoke a response from Russia” amid the invasion of the neighboring country, unleashed in February 2022 by order of the Russian president himself.

A body inside a barrel was found floating on Monday in the waters of a Malibu (California) beach, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) has reported, which has cordoned off the area.

The barrel was seen floating in the sea off the popular Malibu Lagoon State Beach last night by cleaning and sanitation workers, who decided to wait until daylight to retrieve it, ABC7 television reported.

This Monday morning the workers set about the task of removing the barrel from the sea and found the body.

LASD is investigating how long the barrel was at sea and the person's cause of death.

No information has been released about the gender or possible age of the deceased person.

The authorities closed off a part of the beach to where the barrel was taken.

The death toll rises to 54 in the suicide attack carried out in northern Pakistan on Sunday, which has been claimed by the Islamic State terrorist group. The target of the attack was the rally of a pro-Taliban cleric from the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) religious party.

“The death toll has reached 54, while around 80 wounded are receiving treatment in different hospitals,” said police chief Niaz Mohammed of Khar police station where the attack took place.

The attack was claimed on Monday by the Islamic State of Khorasan, the regional branch of the terrorist group, which according to the agent had already attacked JUI-F leaders and workers on multiple occasions in the past.

The police chief has indicated that investigators from the Anti-Terrorism Department (CTD) and other agencies are conducting an investigation of the site of the explosion, where they found various materials that were used to make the explosives.

“Some evidence has been collected from the scene suggesting that between ten and twelve kilograms of explosives were used,” Mohammed detailed.

In addition, it has indicated that three suspects had been arrested so far, of whom, however, they did not know their degree of involvement in the attack.

Taliban condemn attack

Several groups and institutions joined in condemning this attack, including the main Pakistani Taliban group, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The Afghan Taliban government, which shares ties to the JUI-F, also joined in condemning this attack, the fundamentalists' main spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said on Twitter.

The JUI-F is led by cleric and politician Fazlur Rehman, who escaped at least two known bomb attacks in 2011 and 2014.. Rehman is a strong supporter of the Afghan Taliban government.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack last March that killed ten people in southern Pakistan, including nine police officers.. In January he was the protagonist of one of the worst attacks against the security forces in this country, which resulted in a hundred deaths and more than 50 wounded.

Gun violence has grown since 2021

Pakistan has experienced an increase in armed violence since the Afghan Taliban came to power in Kabul in August 2021, which reignited attacks by its Pakistani ideological brethren, especially in the Afghan border provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

The country witnessed 271 militant attacks in the first half of the year, in which 389 people were killed and 656 others injured, according to a report published in early July by Pakistan's Institute for Security and Conflict Studies.

A significant increase in the figures compared to the same period in 2022, when Pakistan suffered 151 attacks that caused 293 deaths and 487 injuries.

An agent of the French Police has killed this Monday an “aggressive” individual and armed with a katana or Japanese saber Isbergues, in the Calais region, in the north of France.

The agents responded to a call for a neighborhood conflict, but they found a man of about 66 years of age with violent behavior. One of the agents opened fire with his service weapon and mortally wounded the individual, who was carrying a katana more than 60 centimeters in length, reports the local press.

The incident occurred around 11:00 a.m. when the agents mobilized in response to a dispute with “an individual who threatened his neighbor,” according to the Béthune prosecutor's office.

The man did not go back despite the orders of the agents, so one of them fired twice. The second shot fatally hit the abdomen of the man, who died in his own garden despite the rapid intervention of the emergency services.

There are currently two investigations open.. One refers to an “attempted assassination of persons with public authority and threats to the neighbours” in the hands of the Lille Investigation Section.. The other is for “voluntary violence resulting in death” by the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie.. The officer who opened fire is in custody.

The lawyer of Nicolás Petro Burgos, Juan Trujillo, denounced this Monday “serious irregularities” in the capture of the first-born of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, and regretted the “disproportionality” of the Prosecutor's Office in his arrest last Saturday since, according to what he says, they filmed him naked.

Trujillo also criticized that in the hearing in which the arrest in Barranquilla of Petro Burgos and his ex-wife Daysuris Vásquez was formalized, for the possible crime of money laundering, “the defense was not summoned, which has no way to dispute the disproportionality and the excess made by the Prosecutor's Office”.

“However, yesterday we informed the judge of some serious irregularities that were committed in the search proceedings, and the judge considered that the issue was indeed very serious, but required more evidence,” added the lawyer in statements to Caracol. Radio.

stealth operation

According to Trujillo, Laura Ojeda, Petro Burgos's current partner, who is eight months pregnant, recounted that “the agents of the Prosecutor's Office entered the apartment at six in the morning, stealthily, without knocking or ringing the door, so much so that they say that Laura's mom, who was awake, didn't hear anything, the dog didn't bark.”

In this context, “they opened the door to Laura's room, she was there naked, they recorded her, they recorded Nicolás entering the shower naked, they never stopped filming despite Laura's request,” Trujillo recounted. “These videos are held by the Prosecutor's Office, we do not have them,” said the lawyer, who has requested them because it would show that “there were serious irregularities.”

In addition, Trujillo denounced that the agents of the Prosecutor's Office rented an apartment in the residential complex where Nicolás Petro lives and had been living there “between one and two weeks” and from there they planned everything to carry out the operation without the need to present court orders at the gate. “as is normally done in these proceedings”. All this “would have done without the prior authorization of a guarantee control judge,” the lawyer concluded.

Trujillo also questioned that the alleged evidence that Nicolás Petro received illegal money for his father's campaign had been known for five months and, therefore, the capture would have had to be done then.

It is expected that this Tuesday the Prosecutor's Office will hold the hearing to charge Nicolás Petro for money laundering and illicit enrichment, and against his ex-wife for money laundering and personal data violation.

peter's capture

Petro Burgos, who is a deputy of the Atlantic Assembly, was arrested in Barranquilla as part of an investigation launched by the Prosecutor's Office last March.

The starting point was an interview by Vásquez to Semana magazine in which he recounted that Nicolás Petro received a large sum of money from a drug trafficker for the electoral campaign of today's President Gustavo Petro and that he kept that money.

According to Vásquez's account, drug trafficker Samuel Santander Lopesierra, alias “the Marlboro man,” gave Nicolás Petro “more than 600 million pesos (about $153,000 today) for his father's campaign.”

“That never reached the campaign legally because he kept that money, and so did others,” added the woman, who mentioned that Nicolás Petro also received 200 million pesos (about $51,000) from the controversial businessman Alfonso “Turco” Hilsaca, that neither went to give to the campaign.

President Petro, after hearing the news yesterday, stated: “As a person and a father, so much self-destruction hurts me a lot and the fact that one of my children goes to jail; as President of the Republic I assure that the Prosecutor's Office has all the guarantees on my part to proceed according to the law.”

The governments of Denmark and Sweden are analyzing the possibility of “restricting” the controversial burning of the Qur'an and prohibiting those held before foreign embassies, amid protests from the Islamic world over the repeated desecrations of the Muslim holy book.

The right to freedom of expression also contemplates criticism of religions “but burning a Koran or Torah in front of a foreign embassy cannot be understood in any other way than a mockery,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said through from your Twitter account.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson also said on Instagram on Sunday that he is “in close contact” with his Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, to take joint action against the Koran burnings.

“We are facing the most serious security situation since World War II and there are certain actors, be they states or individuals, willing to take advantage of it,” Kristersson said, via Instragran.

Kristersson himself warned at the end of last week of the high-risk situation in the face of new calls to desecrate the Muslim holy book announced for the beginning of this week.

Since mid-July there have been strong protests in the Islamic world against actions of this type carried out both in Sweden and Denmark in front of mosques or in front of the Iraqi embassy.

The most virulent response came in Baghdad, when hundreds of protesters stormed and burned down the Swedish embassy in protest at the summons of an Iraqi refugee, who announced a Koran burning in Stockholm.

In the end, he did not go so far as to burn the holy book, but instead kicked and desecrated it right in front of the embassy of his country of origin amid considerable media coverage and protests by groups of protesters, mainly Muslims.

The action of this Iraqi refugee, welcomed by Sweden since 2019, follows other similar actions carried out both in Denmark and in other Nordic countries by the Swedish-Danish neo-Nazi Rasmus Paludan.

Both the Stockholm and Copenhagen governments have repeatedly expressed their condemnation of these acts, but recalling that they are protected by the right to freedom of expression anchored in their respective Constitutions.

Particularly complex is the situation of Sweden, whose entry into NATO is still pending ratification by the Turkish Parliament, which is expected to take place in the autumn.

At the last NATO summit in Vilnius (Lithuania), Kristersson and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced the end of the blockade on the entry of the Nordic country by Turkey, which for months had denied its ratification.

One of the objections raised by Ankara was that Sweden hosts Kurdish opponents and terrorists on its territory, as well as alleged enemies of Islam.

Turkey, along with Jordan, Iraq and other majority-Muslim countries, has protested police-authorized desecrations of the holy book and called on Stockholm and Copenhagen to ban them.

The foreign ministers of the 57 member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have met on Monday to denounce the “repeated” burning of copies of the Koran in Sweden and Denmark, and affirmed that freedom of expression cannot “serve as a pretext to spread hatred”.

“We condemn in the strongest terms the repeated attacks against the sanctities of the Qur'an and confirm that these provocative acts are not acceptable under any pretext,” Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan said during his opening speech at the meeting. .

In this sense, the diplomat added that the burning of copies of the Koran that have taken place in recent weeks in front of several embassies of Muslim-majority countries in Sweden and Denmark cannot be considered acts of freedom of expression.

“Freedom of expression should be an ethical value that guarantees coexistence, and not to spread violence, hatred and clash between civilizations,” Bin Farhan said.

The emergency meeting of the OIC, convened at the proposal of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, began with the recitation of a verse from the Koran that refers to coexistence between people and took place behind closed doors.

The head of Saudi diplomacy wished the meeting to have “profitable results to stop these provocative acts”, called on the international community to “reject anything that generates hatred and violence” and described the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book as ” extremism”.

He also called on OIC member states to “take practical measures to resist these attacks” and to “coordinate and integrate with international parties to uphold the values of tolerance and peace and show the true image of Islam.”

For his part, the OCI Secretary General, Husein Ibrahim Taha, also expressed the need to “take measures to stop these provocative actions”, and recalled that the organization “has sent clear messages to these governments (Sweden and Denmark) so that take the necessary measures to put an end to this escalation”.

The leader of the Islamic organization regretted that the Swedish and Danish authorities have allowed these acts “under the pretext of freedom of expression.”

“I call on the Swedish and Danish authorities to reconsider the seriousness of provoking the feelings of Muslims around the world,” said Ibrahim Taha, who assured that the OCI “will do everything possible to put an end to these acts.”