韓国人「大阪の夜の街を見てみよう」
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My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan review – desperately sad study of a boy’s life
Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi have followed Mir for two decades in what is almost a brutal companion piece to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood
This documentary following one boy’s life in Afghanistan feels like a brutal, desperately sad companion piece to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Its co-directors, the British documentary-maker Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi, first started filming Mir Hussein aged seven in 2002, and they haven’t stopped. They have already made two previous films – The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004) and The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Afghanistan (2011) – and this third gives us the complete picture: Mir pulled along by time’s current from boyhood to the present day, married with three kids in Kabul. To be honest, it’s the opposite of life-affirming.
The story begins in 2002, a year after 9/11. US troops have landed in Afghanistan. Seven-year-old Mir is living with his family in a cave in Bamiyan, having fled their village. They are grindingly poor, but little Mir giggles as he shows the film-makers his “bedroom” in the cave. He grins as a fighter jet roars overhead. “We thought that the Americans would rebuild our country,” Mir remembers on the voiceover, without a trace of bitterness.
Continue reading...Indian government accused of ceding land in Himalayas to China
Locals claim ‘buffer zones’ have been established in areas previously under Indian control
Indian people living near the country’s disputed Himalayan border with China have accused their government of giving away swathes of land after both sides agreed to withdraw troops from some contested areas and create buffer zones.
Earlier this month, Indian and Chinese troops, who have been locked in a tense border dispute since June 2020, began to draw back from the contested area of Gogra-Hot Springs after an agreement was reached to disengage.
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韓国のポータルサイトネイバーから「大統領室”韓日首脳会談不透明”日本の報道に『ノーコメント』」という記事を翻訳してご紹介。 続きを読む
Taliban release American engineer Mark Frerichs in prisoner swap
Navy veteran exchanged for Bashir Noorzai, who had been held in US since 2005 on drugs charges
The Taliban have freed an American engineer in exchange for an Afghan tribal leader linked to the group whom the US had held on drugs charges since 2005.
Mark Frerichs was exchanged at Kabul airport for Bashir Noorzai, the acting Taliban foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, told a news conference in the Afghan capital.
Continue reading...West weighs calling for China Uyghur abuses inquiry at UN
Battle over influence at Human Rights Council, with Beijing warning of ‘politicisation of human rights’
Western powers are weighing the risk of a potential defeat if they table a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council calling for an independent commission to investigate alleged human rights abuses by China in Xinjiang.
The issue is a litmus case for Chinese influence at the UN, as well as the willingness of the UN to endorse a worldview that protects individual rights from authoritarian states.
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韓国のポータルサイトネイバーから「国防委『BTS兵役特例』世論調査…賛成60.9%・反対34.3%」という記事を翻訳してご紹介。 続きを読む
‘Some days we eat grass’: families on the edge in Afghanistan’s food crisis – in pictures
Drought, economic collapse and soaring food prices have pushed millions into hunger. Cash aid from the Disasters Emergency Committee is helping families feed their children and send them back to school
Continue reading...New Zealand National party reinstates MP after inquiry clears him of bullying
Sam Uffindell had been stood down after allegations he had bullied a female housemate while at university
A New Zealand MP who has apologised for attacking a fellow student at high school has been reinstated to the opposition National party after an inquiry cleared him of bullying a female flatmate while at university.
Sam Uffindell had been suspended so the party could carry out an investigation into allegations of violence and intimidating behaviour at university, but on Monday he was reinstated to his former position, after the investigation found no evidence of bullying after high school.
Continue reading...The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado – podcast
When a Romanian businessman returned to his hometown and found a city blighted by mining waste, he hatched a plan to restore it to its former glory. He became a local hero, but now prosecutors accuse of him a running a multimillion dollar fraud
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Joe Biden again says US forces would defend Taiwan from Chinese attack
White House confirms US policy has not changed after president’s remarks on 60 Minutes show
Joe Biden has again said US forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, in his most explicit statement so far on the issue.
Asked in a CBS 60 Minutes interview broadcast on Sunday whether US forces would defend the self-ruled island claimed by China, he replied: “Yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack.”
Continue reading...Taiwan earthquake: survivors rescued after 6.9-magnitude quake topples building – video
At least one person has died after a strong earthquake shook much of Taiwan, toppling a three-storey building and temporarily trapping four people in Yuli. About 400 tourists in the town were stranded on a mountain following a landslide. The 6.9-magnitude quake was the largest of more than 75 that rattled the island’s south-eastern coast between Saturday evening, when a 6.4-magnitude quake struck the same area, and Sunday afternoon
Continue reading...The 2021 Myanmar coup explained in 30 seconds
Country’s military has deployed brutal violence to crush dissent since taking power in a 2021 coup but resistance is growing
On 1 February 2021, Myanmar’s military took power in a coup, abruptly halting the country’s fragile transition towards democracy.
It justified the coup by alleging widespread fraud in the 2020 election – which Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won by a landslide. Independent observers have rejected such claims.
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