Foreign Tit Bits Today
By Yadnom Awu/ Asaba
Scotland
Trump, On Private Visit, Urges Tighter Migration Policy
Visiting American President, Donald Trump, has called on European leaders to tighten their migration policies, warning that unless they did so, migrants might soon take over the continent.
Fielding questions from newsmen as he landed in Turnberry for a five day private visit to Scotland during which he will open his second Golf Course in Aberdeen, Trump warned that migration had become a major global problem and that European leaders needed to shut their borders against indiscriminate migration .
In his view,the liberal attitude of European leaders would soon create a scenario where the migrant population would overwhelm the indigenous population of the respective countries.
His comments came as most European countries try to fashion potent local solutions to the migration issue, with Germany, Britain and France at the forefront.
Trump himself has introduced stiff immigration policies in his country, including massive restrictions on access, and even the forced deportation of existing migrants.
He is also seeking to scrap the Constitutionally- guaranteed automatic citizenship for children born in the United States.
Trump’s mother was Scottish, while his paternal grandparents migrated from Germany.
Malaysia
Protesters Call For Resignation of PM Anwar Ibrahim
Tens of thousands of Malaysians have taken to the street of Kuala Lumpur in protest at the state of their country and the handling of affairs by the administration of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
The protests, the first major incident in the country in recent times, drew participants from a broad spectrum of the society.
The protesters said they were angry that the administration of Anwar Ibrahim had not been able to deliver on his promise of reforms and transparency.
According to them, Ibrahim came to power in 2022 on the basis of the popular faith in his vow to decisively deal with the huge incidence of corruption across the society and to create potential positive institutional reforms.
But they said that they were now regretting that he had not been able to keep faith with his promises, but had instead, largely sustained the national experience that predated his government..
Malaysia had been bogged by high incidence of corruption and economic decline in the 10 years preceding the Anwar Ibrahim administration.
The administration was yet to respond to the protests at press time.
Cambodia
Cambodia Calls For Urgent Ceasefire Talks With Thailand
Authorities of Cambodia have called for urgent ceasefire talks between its officials and those of neighbouring Thailand.
The administration said the talks would help ease the conflict between both countries over a protracted border dispute.
The call came as troops of both countries continued their mutual exchange of gunfire for a third consecutive day.
Thailand, which had reportedly rebuffed third party mediation in the dispute, was yet to react to the ceasefire talks call by its neighbour, at press time.
Both countries have, in the course of three days of skirmishes, suffered casualties, including fatalities.
Thailand said it had evacuated 130,000 of its citizens along the border, and also declared martial law along its long borders with Cambodia.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, had ruled that the land in dispute belongs to Cambodia.
Turkiye
International Defence Fair Opens in Turkiye
Rising military power, Turkiye, has come into more focus with the opening of a major fair on.defence hardware.
The fair us holding in Istanbul , and has drawn participation from across the Middle East and beyond.
Exhibits on display include various types of military drones, hypersonic ballistic missiles and air defence platforms.
The hypersonic ballistic missiles have attracted attention, as have the missile interceptors missiles modelled after the Israeli variant known as the Iron Dome.
Turkiye has recently ramped up investments in military and other security sectors, and now has an 80 per cent internal dependency status, meaning that it imports only 20 percent of its security kits needs.
Turkiye exports about $7billion worth of security products of annum, and although a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO, but has strong diplomatic and strategic relations with Russia.
Gaza
Israel Okays Airdrop of Aid In Gaza As War Death Toll Reaches 59,000
Credible diplomatic sources have hinted at Israel’ s approval of the airdrop of humanitarian supplies in the embattled Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
Though it has yet to be made official, the development, if confirmed, would be another major twist in the windy search for a potent route for the sustainable supply of aid into the narrow Gaza strip.
It follows mounting global criticisms of the current model of aid distribution in Gaza where only the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is allowed by Israel to distribute aid in the enclave of 2 million people.
The GHF, created and funded by America and Israel to side step the United Nations Relief and Works Agency( UNRWA), has only four centres,three of which it hardly operates.
The GHF is operated by an armed American private security company, and operates in league with the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) which has been regularly accused of opening fire of the regular throng of starving Palestinians attempting to access the aid supplies.
Both the United Nations UN, the Hamas -run Gaza Ministry of Health and other credible transnational and local sources, say that more than 100,000 Gazans have been killed at, or near, the GHF aid centres since May 27, 2025 when it began operations.
Neither the United Nations, nor its member-states have publicly reacted to the policy of airdrop of aid reportedly approved , but the United States and Jordan had attempted it in the early days of the nearly two years old war, but abandoned it after the falling stacks killed Palestinians on the ground.
Meanwhile the death toll in the Gaza war has crossed the 59,000 mark, according diplomatic sources and the Gaza Ministry of Health run by Hamas.
The dead are mainly children and women.
Aside from the dead, it is estimated that more than 100,000 others have been injured in the conflict which began after Israel launched a high heel military campaign on Gaza after Hamas breached its security on October 7 2023, and killed and or abducted 1,500 Israelis, mainly soldiers and policemen.
Israel, which has a tradition of under- reporting its casualty figures in military and other security engagements, said that it had lost 890 soldiers, including the more than 440 who were killed in action in Gaza.
Taiwan
Taiwanese are polling in an election many consider as a referendum on their country ‘s relations with China,which views it as a renegade province.
Taiwan has a peculiar political situation where the Executive arm is in the hands of the Pro- independence government,while the legislature has a majority of opposition figures who are considered Pro- China.
The government is hoping that the poll would lead to the defeat of 31 opposition figures in the legislature, and hence enable it to have a majority and assume control of both arms of government.
Both the Executive and the Legislature had had a fractious relationship, with each arm accusing the other of incendiary motives.
America
Pro- Palestine Protests Hold At UN Hdqtrs
Pro- Palestine activists have held a protest at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York.
The protest held under the aegis of the Palestinian Youth Movement ( PYM), but also drew participants from locals and other interests.
PYM said that it chose the UN headquarters in order to draw the attention of the organization and member -states to how global inaction had enhanced Israeli impunity and worsened the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
They called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and for exponentially increased in the volume of aid into the strip
They equally want the UN to resume responsibility for humanitarian activities in Gaza, via its main structure, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,UNRWA.
The agency had been in charge of aid supplies in the enclave until Israel and America sidestepped it by the creation and operationalization of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF.
Ukraine
Russia Destroys Ukraine ‘s Military Recruitment Centres
Ukraine says that overnight Russian drone attacks had destroyed no fewer than six of its troops recruitment centres across the country.
It said that the centres were “destroyed” by Russia, using drones.
Kiyev did not give the location of the centres nor the casualty figures.
However, the attacks show the plan of Russia to disrupt the troops recruitment process of Ukraine which has been suffering serious shortfalls in the number of manpower needed to ward off escalating Russian assaults.
Diplomatic sources said that Ukraine is now considering the door -to- door module or online variant of personnel recruitment in order to avoid the telling attacks by Russia.
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