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Your Thursday Briefing: Russia Blames its Dead Soldiers


Russia said yesterday that its soldiers’ Unauthorized use of mobile phones in the Donetsk region was the “main reason” that Ukraine could launch a deadly attack on New Year’s Day. The Defense Ministry said Ukraine used mobile phone data to determine their location.

Some Russian legislators and military bloggers have objected to the swift casting of blame. They said the statement from the Defense Department was an attempt to target their rank and profile rather than their commander.

They argued that leaders failed to take precautions to protect troops, such as scattering new soldiers to safer locations and storing them away from ammunition.

Background: Russian soldiers use open telephone lines already a known vulnerability, often revealing the force position. Ukraine kills at least one general and his staff after he talked on an unsafe phoneUS official said.

DEADMAN: Russia now says 89 soldiers died in the strike, including a deputy commander. The change from the original 63 was a rare source of casualties.

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On New Year’s Day, North Korean state media made The photo is not dated of a young girl and Kim Jong-un visiting a nuclear missile facility.

Her name and age were not reported, and she was simply referred to as Kim’s “most beloved daughter”. That’s enough to suggest that she might as well-prepared as his last successor mode inheritance and Its rapidly growing nuclear arsenal. I also bring a daughteridentified by South Korean intelligence as Kim Ju-ae, to a major weapons test in November.

A change is almost imminent: Kim Ju-ae is said to be 9 or 10 years old, and Kim Jong-un turns 39 on Monday. But slowly introducing her to the public may be Kim’s attempt to avoid his father’s mistakes in the succession.

Kim, the youngest son, was his father’s choice for the leadership position. But ordinary people never saw him until he appeared in state media in 2010, a year before his father passed away. It took many years before he founded authority unchallenged through bloody purge.

Analysis: Most analysts agree that by bringing his children to events related to his arsenal, Kim is reminding the North Korean people, especially its youththat dynastic rule and his family’s development of nuclear weapons would continue for the next generation.

Detail: South Korean intelligence officials say Kim has three children, of which the eldest is most likely a boy. Ju-ae was his second child, they said.


For supporters, he was the first pope to meet with victims. He forced the church to disperse hundreds of abusive priests. He raised the age of consent and expanded the law protecting minors to include vulnerable adults. He also granted exemptions from statutes of limitations on sexual abuse.

But one last year’s report authorized by the Catholic Church in Munich accused Benedict of mishandling cases of sexual abuse by priests while he was the city’s archbishop. And as a Cardinal, his office doesn’t act in serious cases either. In the 1990s, it halted a secret trial of an American priest who sexually abused multiple people. 200 deaf boys. Priests are never defrosted.

Background: After the authorized report was released last year, Benedict apologized for any “serious errors” but denied any wrongdoing.

  • Pakistan has ordered the closure of malls early in an effort to save energy and ease the country’s economic crisis. Related press reports.

  • From comments: BTS ruined Euny Honglife of many years. (She may have accidentally started a rumor that they are sponsored by the Korean state.)

  • US retail pharmacies will soon be allowed sell abortion pills with a prescription.

  • European Union Meta fined 390 million euros (about $414 million) yesterday after it was discovered that it illegally forced users to accept personalized ads.

  • Denmark reported no bank robberies last year — for the first time — when the country went cashless, Bloomberg’s report.

Several Indian delivery apps are pushing the limits of logistics and durability for discount and waiting time. Driven by billions of dollars in investment, they rely on busy drivers who are willing to work uncompromising hours for just a few dollars a day.

Hiromi Kawakami, one of Japan’s most famous contemporary novelists, travels with books that help her immerse herself in her destination. Now, Kawakami has recommendations for visitors when visiting Tokyo, her own hometown.

She suggests a 17th-century travel book, “a record of a five-month, 1,500-mile hike.” The historical detective novel takes readers through the city’s isolated 19th-century past. Complicated works on psychology probe the oppression faced by women, or the tensions between traditional Confucianism and European spirituality. And there are even some short novels in the stubborn jet case.

“I started reading as soon as I knew my departure date,” she wrote, “and continued reading throughout my stay, immersed in those novels even after I returned home.”

This is her book list for a visitor to Tokyo.

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