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Swastika-wearing gunman kills 13 at Russian school

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A gunman with a swastika on his teeshirt killed 13 people, including seven children, and wounded more than 20 at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators said.

The identity of the attacker and the motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, about 970 km (600 miles) east of Moscow, were not clear.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, which handles major crimes, said the gunman was wearing a balaclava. It released a short video showing his body lying on the floor of a classroom with overturned furniture and papers strewn on the floor. He was dressed all in black, with a red swastika in a circle drawn on his teeshirt.

The committee said the six adult victims included teachers and security guards. It said 21 people, including 14 children, were wounded.

Tass news agency quoted investigators as saying the attacker was armed with two pistols and a large supply of ammunition.

Russia has seen several school shootings in recent years.

In May 2021, a teenage gunman killed seven children and two adults in the city of Kazan. In April 2022, an armed man killed two children and a teacher at a kindergarten in the central Ulyanovsk region before committing suicide.

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Speculation mounts over Kim Jong Un’s alleged daughter on state media

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Seoul said on Monday it is analysing recent North Korean state-run television footage of a girl whom South Korean media reported as could be Kim Jong Un’s daughter.

The girl, whom North Korea’s KRT showed on Sept. 8 performing with other children at an event celebrating the country’s founding anniversary, fuelled speculations she was allegedly the North Korean leader’s daughter after reports by South Korean local media on Sunday, citing Chinese experts.

South Korea’s Unification Ministry acknowledged the reports and said it is analysing the footage, spokesperson Cho Joong-hoon said at a news conference. The possibility of the girl being Kim’s daughter is low and there was no way to confirm the reports, the ministry said.

South Korean media reports said the KRT footage focused heavily on the child and she was the only girl who did not tie her hair, claiming it was a form of special treatment. It also said Kim Jong Un’s wife Ri Sol Ju was seen approaching the girl to talk to her while patting her back after the performance. Reuters cannot independently verify the reports.

South Korean media reports said the KRT footage focused heavily on the child and she was the only girl who did not tie her hair, claiming it was a form of special treatment. It also said Kim Jong Un’s wife Ri Sol Ju was seen approaching the girl to talk to her while patting her back after the performance. Reuters cannot independently verify the reports.

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Vietnam’s northern and central provinces prepare for arrival of typhoon Noru

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Northern and central provinces have been told to prepare for super typhoon Noru, which is heading in a northwest direction with wind speeds of up to 183km per hour.

The typhoon is set to enter Vietnam’s East Sea later today, becoming the fourth to hit the country in 2022.

The typhoon was about 250km off Luzon Island in the Philippines at 10am on Sunday, with wind speeds of 167-183km per hour, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

By 10am on Monday, it will be about 740km off the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands with wind speeds slowing to 134-149km per hour.

All vessels working in the danger zone are at high risk of strong winds, high waves and tornadoes. The disaster risk level is at level three (five is the highest).

By 10am on Tuesday, the typhoon will be about 140km off the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands and its wind speed is forecast to be 134-140km per hour.

Parts of the South China Sea are already seeing the effects, with strong gusts and waves of between six to eight metres in height.

​Thua Thien-Hue Province, home to more than 2,000 fishing ships with about 11,350 fishermen, on Sunday morning banned all vessels from going to sea. The provincial port authorities are working to ensure safety for ships anchored in Thuan An and Chan May ports. The province also asked localities to assign workers to be on duty all day to monitor the typhoon’s progress and arrange any response measures.

Residents are being moved to safety, with priority given to children, the elderly, pregnant women and disabled people. There are also plans to move 26,255 households with 99,424 people in case of flooding.

The provincial Department of Industry and Trade has prepared 100 tonnes of noodles and 100 tonnes of rice to serve people in need.

Thua Thien-Hue Province has 56 irrigation reservoirs and 12 hydropower reservoirs with a total capacity of about two billion cubic metres. Currently, the water level in the reservoirs is safe, and the reservoirs are ready to take on flood water.

Nghe An Province has witnessed heavy rain over recent days, causing flooding of agricultural and aquatic areas, and landslides in some mountainous areas.

In Phu Yen Province, the provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control on Sunday sent letters to localities and concerned organisations calling for preparations ahead of the typhoon. Heavy rain since Saturday evening submerged some low areas in Song Cau Town.

Localities have been told to closely monitor forecasts and bulletins while keeping search and rescue forces ready for deployment.

The Phu Yen Border Guard Command said that it had 396 fishing boats with 2,377 workers. Of which 294 fishing vessels with 1,799 seamen working offshore, 102 fishing boats with 578 workers working near shore. All of them have received information about the supertyphoon.

The Quang Tri Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said that all 2,397 boats with 6,569 crew members in the province had received information about typhoon Noru. The province has 126 dams with a total capacity of over 260 million cubic metres.

The province asked localities to reinforce houses, schools, healthcare centres, and offices and ensure the power grid system’s safety in strong winds.

Viet Nam News

Asia News Network

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Calls grow for legal measures to protect minors from metaverse sex crimes

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Calls for measures to counter sex crimes in the metaverse are rising with an increasing number of predators targeting teenagers.

Huh Kyung-mi, a professor of police administration at Keimyung University, said that legal measures are essential to respond to sexual exploitation in the metaverse in a paper published on Sunday.

According to Huh, 70 per cent of metaverse service users are teenagers, and criminal attempts on the metaverse platform, especially those that target youthful avatars, have been increasing.

Perpetrators lure minors with virtual items and gradually lead the minors into having inappropriate conversations or filming and sending sexual content. Some cases are not even considered illegal under the current law, such as sexual harassment against virtual avatars.

In some cases, crimes within the metaverse evolve into crimes in the real world. A man in his 30s who forced 11 minors he met through Zepeto – Asia’s largest metaverse platform operated by Naver Z – to film and send sexually explicit content of themselves for about a year since April 2021 was sentenced to four years in prison on Sept. 11.

Amid continuing challenges, both the industry and the government are having difficulties in getting a detailed picture of the situation, as there is no efficient system for receiving reports about such crimes.

The Korea Communications Commission and the Ministry of Justice have been trying to analyze metaverse crime issues since early this year. The KCC is conducting a survey to specify the scope of actions that can be interpreted as a crime. The digital sex crime committee under the Justice Ministry commented on the limit of the current law in January, recommending that criminal acts against virtual avatars and personal accounts should be considered no less than criminal acts against real human users.

Professor Huh pointed out that the core of the controversy comes from the unfamiliar concept of the metaverse. “In order to curb sex crimes in the metaverse, social consensus on the nature of the metaverse should be made first — whether it is an extension of the real world or not. Discussion on a new legal structure to restrain the metaverse should follow,” said Huh said.

Lee Jung-Youn

The Korea Herald

Asia News Network

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German protesters call for opening of Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Some hundreds of Germans protested in the eastern German seaside town of Lubmin on Sunday, calling to put into service the halted Nord Stream 2 pipeline project that was designed to transport fuel from Russia to Germany but was put on ice after the war in Ukraine broke out.

“Open Nord Stream 2” read one placard, “The government must go”, read another. “When someone turns off a gas tap, turns off the heating, these are not normal conditions and they can’t be. Germany is one of the richest countries in the world and then something like that is just not possible,” said protest organiser Martin Klein. Lubmin is the city, where the Nord Stream 2 pipeline lands in Germany.

A group of Ukrainian women got in front of the stage to protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine but were escorted away by security staff.

Recently also German Economy Minister Robert Habeck visited Lubmin, stating that he didn’t see “a scenario, or no foreseeable scenario where Nord Stream 2 would play a role for Germany’s energy security.”

The protest took place on the second day of a two-day trip to the Gulf region by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in order to intensify energy cooperation and secure independence from Russia.

Scholz and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamin Bin Hamad Al Thani, spoke about LNG supplies in the light of the current energy crisis during their meeting in Doha on Sunday.

“We want to make further progress on this soon. At the same time, we will push ahead with cooperation on hydrogen, which will play a key role in the decarbonisation and electrification of our economy,” Scholz told reporters during a joint news conference.

Scholz also commented on the upcoming FIFA World Cup held in Qatar, welcoming “numerous improvements in workers’ rights in recent years” by Qatar, “in particular the abolition of the Kavalah wage system and the introduction of a minimum wage.”

German utility RWE has signed a deal with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to deliver liquefied natural gas to Europe’s largest economy by the end of December, RWE announced on Sunday.

Though the initial amount to be delivered is relatively small, it’s a politically significant deal to shore up supplies of gas from outside of Russia as Scholz seeks to deepen ties with the Gulf and find alternative energy sources.

The deal, which includes a memorandum of understanding for multi-year supplies of LNG, came on the second day of a two-day trip to the Gulf region by Scholz.