PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Province asks for outside aid
Enga Governor Peter Ipatas yesterday called for help from foreign police forces, including neighboring Australia, after more than 50 people were killed in a clash in the highlands. “We are so close to Australia, our security is important to Australia,” he told parliament, calling for a deployment to Enga. “They can give us the manpower and the number of manpower we want, to finally get the culture of policing right.” The brutal killing of as many as 64 tribal fighters along a remote stretch of road in the nation’s highlands on Sunday has fueled fears that violence is spiraling out of control. Prime Minister James Marape has labeled the attack “domestic terrorism.” He is facing a vote of no confidence following deadly riots in major cities last month.
AUSTRALIA
Taekwondo coach kills family
A taekwondo instructor killed a seven-year-old student at his academy and the boy’s parents before going to a Sydney hospital with stab and slash wounds on his body, police said yesterday. Kwang Kyung Yoo, owner of the Lion’s Taekwondo and Martial Arts Academy, is to be charged with three counts of murder, Homicide Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty said. The bodies were discovered on Tuesday after the instructor admitted himself to a hospital on Monday night with “stab wounds or slash wounds” to his chest, stomach and arms, Doherty said. Police allege that Yoo killed Min Cho, 41, and her son at his academy after a class on Monday before driving to their home, where he killed Cho’s husband and the boy’s father, Steven Cho, 39. All four were born in South Korea and the slain boy had been a regular taekwondo student. “We’re still establishing what other connections or ... what other relationships may have been or may not have been,” Doherty said.
SOUTH AFRICA
‘Death ship’ heads for Iraq
A “death ship” carrying thousands of cattle whose foul smell caused a stink in top tourist city Cape Town was on Tuesday to continue its voyage to Iraq, port officials said. The ship, en route from Brazil and carrying an estimated 19,000 cattle, docked in Cape Town on Sunday, bringing with it a nauseating odor that permeated the city center. A city councilor on Monday confirmed that the smell was from the Al Kuwait vessel, which was immediately boarded by inspectors from the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Sunday evening. It dubbed the vessel a “Kuwaiti death ship” and attributed the smell to the awful conditions animals endured, having spent two-and-a-half weeks on board, with a buildup of feces and ammonia. “The feces that the cattle were standing is already basically up to the top of their hooves in some pens,” said Grace le Grange, a senior inspector who boarded the vessel. Several animals had to be euthanized due to injuries, she said.
TURKEY
Six arrested for spying
Authorities have detained six people suspected of spying on Uighurs in Turkey for China’s intelligence service, and another suspect was being sought by police, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday. Prosecutors in Istanbul identified seven people believed to be gathering information on notable individuals from the Uighur community and some associations tied to them in Turkey, Anadolu said, without providing further details. About 50,000 Uighurs are estimated to live in Turkey, the largest Uighur diaspora outside Central Asia.
‘UNUSUAL EVENT’: The Australian defense minister said that the Chinese navy task group was entitled to be where it was, but Australia would be watching it closely The Australian and New Zealand militaries were monitoring three Chinese warships moving unusually far south along Australia’s east coast on an unknown mission, officials said yesterday. The Australian government a week ago said that the warships had traveled through Southeast Asia and the Coral Sea, and were approaching northeast Australia. Australian Minister for Defence Richard Marles yesterday said that the Chinese ships — the Hengyang naval frigate, the Zunyi cruiser and the Weishanhu replenishment vessel — were “off the east coast of Australia.” Defense officials did not respond to a request for comment on a Financial Times report that the task group from
DEFENSE UPHEAVAL: Trump was also to remove the first woman to lead a military service, as well as the judge advocates general for the army, navy and air force US President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and pushed out five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of US military leadership. Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that he would nominate former lieutenant general Dan “Razin” Caine to succeed Brown, breaking with tradition by pulling someone out of retirement for the first time to become the top military officer. The president would also replace the head of the US Navy, a position held by Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead a military service,
Four decades after they were forced apart, US-raised Adamary Garcia and her birth mother on Saturday fell into each other’s arms at the airport in Santiago, Chile. Without speaking, they embraced tearfully: A rare reunification for one the thousands of Chileans taken from their mothers as babies and given up for adoption abroad. “The worst is over,” Edita Bizama, 64, said as she beheld her daughter for the first time since her birth 41 years ago. Garcia had flown to Santiago with four other women born in Chile and adopted in the US. Reports have estimated there were 20,000 such cases from 1950 to
CONFIDENT ON DEAL: ‘Ukraine wants a seat at the table, but wouldn’t the people of Ukraine have a say? It’s been a long time since an election, the US president said US President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and added that he was more confident of a deal to end the war after US-Russia talks. Trump increased pressure on Zelenskiy to hold elections and chided him for complaining about being frozen out of talks in Saudi Arabia. The US president also suggested that he could meet Russian President Vladimir Putin before the end of the month as Washington overhauls its stance toward Russia. “I’m very disappointed, I hear that they’re upset about not having a seat,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida when asked about the Ukrainian
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