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 Cities in central China hastily drew up plans to isolate migrant workers fleeing to their hometowns from a vast assembly facility of iPhone maker Foxconn (2317.TW) in COVID-hit Zhengzhou city, fearing the returnees may trigger coronavirus outbreaks.

Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, reported 167 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in the seven days to Oct. 29, up from 97 infections in the prior seven-day period. Taiwan-based Foxconn, which has about 300,000 workers in Zhengzhou, has not disclosed the number of infected workers.

Under China’s ultra-strict zero-COVID policies, localities are mandated to act swiftly to quell any outbreaks, with measures that could include full-scale lockdowns. On Oct. 19, Foxconn  banned all dining-in at canteens and required workers to take their meals in their dormitories, but assured that production was normal.

In an apparent show of support, residents in the vicinity left bottled water and provisions next to major roads with signs such as: “For Foxconn workers returning home”, according to social media posts.

A Foxconn official had no immediate comment in response to Reuters queries.

“They were Foxconn employees who escaped from the factory and were walking home,” wrote a user of WeChat in a post about the social media images.

“Some people were walking amid wheat fields with their luggage, blankets and quilts. I couldn’t help but feel sad.”

Late on Saturday, cities near Zhengzhou including Yuzhou, Changge and Qinyang, as well as the Weiqu district and Xihua county in the city of Xuzhou, urged Foxconn workers to report to local authorities in advance about plans to return home.

Returning workers are to travel “point-to-point” in pre-arranged vehicles en route, and are to be quarantined on arrival, they said in separate letters on their respective social media accounts addressed to Zhengzhou Foxconn workers

Xihua county said it was organising a special vehicle from Sunday to bring back directly from the Foxconn plant workers who were originally from the county, assuring them that they would not be turned away but that counter-epidemic measures needed to be observed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied on Thursday that he has any intention of using nuclear weapons against Ukraine

Putin described the war in the country as part of the West’s efforts to assert its power in the world, which he said would fail.

Speaking at a conference of international experts on foreign policy, Putin said it would make no sense for Russia to launch a nuclear attack on Ukraine.

“We don’t see the need for that. It makes no sense politically and militarily,” Putin said.

Putin said his earlier warning that he was ready to use “everything available to defend Russia” did not mean using nuclear weapons, but was in response to Western talk of a possible nuclear attack. use nuclear weapons

He singled out Liz Truss, who in August said she would be ready to use nuclear weapons if she became prime minister, a statement Putin said had worried the Kremlin.

Truss became Britain’s prime minister in early September but resigned after 44 days

“What should we think?” said Putin. “We saw that as a united stance, an attempt to intimidate us.”

Putin accused the United States and its allies of trying to impose their rules on other countries, which he described as a “dangerous, bloody and dirty” game of domination.

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Putin, who sent his troops to Ukraine on February 24, described the West’s support for Kyiv as part of a wider effort by Washington and its allies to impose their will on others.

The Russian leader said that the policies of the West will increase the chaos, adding that “everyone will reap the fruits of what they sow.”

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters on Thursday that the US has yet to see any indication that Putin has decided to use nuclear weapons.

The United States said on Friday its policy towards North Korea had not changed after a senior U.S. official responsible for nuclear policy raised some eyebrows by saying Washington would be willing to engage in arms-control talks with Pyongyang.

Some experts argue that recognizing North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, something Pyongyang seeks, is a prerequisite for such talks. But Washington has long argued that the North Korean nuclear program is illegal and subject to United Nations sanctions.

Bonnie Jenkins, State Department under secretary for arms control, was asked at a Washington nuclear conference on Thursday at which point North Korea should be treated as an arms-control problem.

“And not just arms control, but risk reduction – everything that leads up to a traditional arms-control treaty and all the different aspects of arms control that we can have with them. We’ve made it very clear to the DPRK … that we’re ready to talk to them – we have no pre-conditions,” she said, referring to North Korea by the initials of its official name.

Referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, she added: “If he picked up the phone and said, ‘I want to talk about arms control,’ we’re not going to say no. I think, if anything, we would want to explore what that means.”

The United States and its allies are concerned that North Korea may be about to resume nuclear bomb testing for the first time since 2017, something that would be highly unwelcome to the Biden administration ahead of mid-term elections early next month. North Korea has rejected U.S. calls to return to talks.

Asked about Jenkins’ comment, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said: “I want to be very clear about this. There has been no change to U.S. policy.”

Price said U.S. policy remained “the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” while adding, “we continue to be open to diplomacy with the DPRK, we continue to reach out to the DPRK, we’re committed to pursuing a diplomatic approach. We’re prepared to meet without preconditions and we call on the DPRK to engage in serious and sustained diplomacy.”

‘KIM JONG UN’S TRAP’

Asked if it was time to accept North Korea as a nuclear state, she replied: “Wording aside, we are committed to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. We do not accept North Korea with that status. But we are interested in having a conversation with the North Koreans.”

Daniel Russel, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia under then-President Barack Obama and now with the Asia Society, told Reuters Jenkins had “fallen straight into Kim Jong Un’s trap” with her remarks.

“Suggesting that North Korea only has to agree to have a conversation with the U.S. about arms control and risk reduction is a terrible mistake, because it moves the issue from North Korea’s right to possess nuclear weapons to the question of how many it should have and how they are used,” he said.

“Kim would love nothing better than to push his risk reduction agenda — the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea.”

Other experts played down Jenkins’ remarks.

Daryl Kimball, executive director of the U.S.-based Arms Control Association, said she was not making a statement recognizing North Korea as a nuclear weapons state under the international Non-Proliferation Treaty.

“She was acknowledging, as other officials in other administrations have, that North Korea does have nuclear weapons, but in violation of its commitments under the NPT not to pursue nuclear weapons,” he told Reuters.

Kimball and Toby Dalton, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which hosted the nuclear conference, said they did not see formal recognition as a nuclear-armed state as a prerequisite for arms-control talks. Dalton said Jenkins appeared essentially to be restating the U.S. position that it was willing to talk to Pyongyang without preconditions.

A woman died after being attacked by a dog in the town of Robertsfors in the Västerbotten region of Sweden, according to Expressen.

The police received a report that two people were bitten by a dog at 9.15 pm on Sunday.

A man was taken to hospital using an ambulance helicopter, while Mary died at the scene.

The police closed the place to arrest what happened. and he says that the dog escaped from the police.

Kooxda aan la aqoonsan oo isku magcawday Black Reward ayaa sheegtay in ay jabsatay qaar ka mid ah computer-ada laga maamulo xilli ay ku aragtay Nukliyeerka dalka Iran. arrimaha nukliyeerka ee meesha

Kooxda Black Reward ayaa sidoo kale sheegtay in ay daabacday waxa ay ugu yeertay xogta xayeysiiska ah iyo muuqaalka la siiyo injineerada iyo shaqaalaha hay’adda maamusha nadiifinta nukliyeerka ee dalka Iran, sidoo kale waxay heleen muuqaalada iyo fiisayaasha khubaro u kala dhalatay Iran iyo Ruushka oo ka hawlgala wershedda tamarta ee Bushehr

Ururkan ayaa dalbaday in Iran sii dayso dhamaan maxaabiista u xidhxidhan arrimaha waxbarashada ee xaqiiqada la dhigay intii ay mudaharaadadii dhowaan ka dhacday.

Ha’aydda tamarta atomiga ee dalka Iran ayaa sheegtay Axaddii in koox ajnebi ahi ay jabsatay ama u dhacday xogtii ku kaydsanaysay mid ka mid ah computer-keeda, oo ay gudan u galeen emailkooda.

Qoraal ay hay’addu soo saartay Axaddii ayay ku xogta xogta ku jirta iimaylada shirkaddu “inay ku bixiyeen waraaqo wata fariimo la xidhiidha dhinaca farsamada iyo xog is waydaarsiga maalinlaha ah”

The Turkish government has refused to allow Syrian refugees to cross the country’s borders to Greece.

As reported by the Reuters news agency, around 600 Syrians crossed the border, but the Turkish army sent them back.

Turkey has already released the refugees in that country who always cross over to Greece, which has come to a halt.

Recently, the Greek government has accused Turkey of deliberately allowing the refugees, which has caused the two countries to have heated discussions.

There are many refugees in Turkey, mostly from Syria where there are Somalis.

The Malaysian police have released a Palestinian man who was secretly kidnapped by Israeli intelligence in Kuala Lumpur, the country’s capital.

Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, hired Malaysian citizens and paid them a lot of money to carry out the kidnapping, while Mossad guided the kidnapping operation by telephone.

The kidnapped Palestinian was kept hidden in a secret house for days, and the Israeli intelligence was asking him questions via video call, as if he had a relationship with the Qassam Brigades fighting against Palestine.

The intelligence of Malaysia who got information about this incident later managed to find the location of the kidnappers, who were arrested and then taken into custody.

Malaysian Intelligence officials have conducted a long investigation and said that they found out that the men who carried out the kidnapping had been trained by the Israeli Mossad.

The Gambia government said on Friday that 70 children have died of severe kidney damage, which is believed to have been caused by cough syrup made in India.

The President of the Gambia, Adama Barrow, announced this news at an emergency meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers held on Thursday in which they were discussing how to deal with this situation, according to a press release from the presidency and published by the Reuters news agency on Saturday.

The syrup was found to be made by New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd, which recently shut down one of its factories in northern India as health officials there investigate.

The Gambia is also investigating the cause of death, and this week a new committee was appointed to investigate, according to the news from the presidency.

A famous prison in the city of Tehran, the capital of Iran, there was a strong fire that caused various casualties, and flames and smoke were seen from the prison.

Videos and pictures taken from the prison showed the flames coming out of the prison, there were also explosions and gunshots heard from the prison as reported by some media.

Evin prison is famous in Iran, and this prison in Tehran city often holds opposition politicians, journalists and other foreigners.

The fire that broke out in Evin prison and the gunshots and explosions that were heard have not been given many details, and so far there is no detailed information from the Iranian government about the situation in the prison.

There are reports that the inmates of the prison have burned parts of the prison, and some media say that this is a continuation of the violent protests that are going on in Iran.

There are strong demonstrations in Iran, mostly women, and this uprising was born when the Iranian police forces killed a girl who was arrested for not wearing a hijab, and the resulting anger caused the death of many other peo

The President of Somalia, Mr. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has sent a message of condolence to his Turkish counterpart, Mr. Rajab Dayib Erdogan, and the Government of that country regarding the citizens who died in the explosion at a coal mine in the north of the country.

The President pointed out that the government and the people of Somalia share the suffering of their brothers and sisters in Turkey and wished God to bless the injured.

“Speaking on behalf of the government and the people of Somalia, we express our deepest condolences to your government and the people of our brothers and sisters in Turkey who have been affected by the tragedy in Bartin region.”

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud prayed to God for the citizens of Turkey who lost their lives in the explosion that God will give them mercy, patience and faith on their families and their government.