Welcome to December, the last month of 2022.
World Today has summarized key reports from a number of countries and we’ll start with Australia.
Supporters of the Australia national soccer team in Qatar have expressed their happiness, after they didn’t expect their favorite team to progress to the round of 16 of qualifying.
Australia beat Denmark
The Australian national team managed to advance to the round of 16 of the Qatar World Cup thanks to Mathew Leckie’s only goal against Denmark.
“My first goal in the World Cup is probably one of the most important goals for me and for the national team,” enthused Leckie.
When asked if the Australian national team would be celebrating, Socceroos manager Graham Arnold emphatically replied: “No celebrations”.
“As I told them [para pemain], that’s why we won again after winning against Tunisia. No celebrations, no emotions. Sleep. Do not [main] social”.
Players may be barred from celebrating, but hundreds of people in Melbourne can’t hide their pride.
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin died on Wednesday afternoon (11/30) of leukemia and organ failure in Shanghai at the age of 96.
Jiang came to power after the Tiananmen Incident in 1989, then retired in 2002, which was the Communist Party of China’s first peaceful leadership change since the 1949 Revolution.
He has also been credited with improving relations with the United States and leading China to an unprecedented boom in economic progress.
Under Jiang’s leadership, China weathered the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, and won the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Racism took place in Buckingham Palace
A senior royal official at Buckingham Palace has apologized and resigned from his posts after repeatedly asking a charity worker where he was from.
The charity worker, Ngozi Fulani, who helps victims of domestic violence a lot, said he was shocked by what he experienced at an event held by Camilla, wife of King Charles.
She said an elderly employee who called “Lady SH” brushed her hair to see the name on her badge as she repeatedly asked her to state her ethnicity.
Although the palace has not named the employee, several British media including the BBC have identified her as Lady Susan Hussey, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth and godmother to Prince William.
Bomb attack in Afghanistan kills a schoolboy
At least 19 people were killed, mostly schoolchildren, and 24 others were injured in an explosion at a madrasah in the northern Afghanistan city of Aybak.
“Our security forces will find the perpetrators of this crime unforgivable and will punish them for their actions,” Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Nafay Takor said.
Since the Taliban returned to power in August last year, there have been dozens of bomb attacks against civilians, most of which have been claimed by a group calling itself the Islamic State.
In September, at least 54 people, including 51 boys and girls, were killed when a suicide bombing exploded in a classroom filled with hundreds of students who were taking university entrance tests.
Chinese and Russian warplanes enter Korean territory
The South Korean military deployed its fighter jets when two Chinese warplanes and six Russian planes entered its air defense zone on Wednesday.
Two Chinese H-6 bombers repeatedly passed in and out of the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) off the south and northeast coasts at around 5:50am.
They reentered the area hours later from the Sea of Japan, along with Russian warplanes, including TU-95 bombers and SU-35 fighters.
“Our military sent Air Force fighter planes ahead of the entry of Chinese and Russian planes into KADIZ to carry out tactical measures in preparation for a possible emergency,” the South Korean military said.
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force also deployed fighter jets after Chinese bombers flew from the East China Sea to the Sea of Japan, where they were joined by two Russian drones.
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