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A government decree came into force in Russia recently (11th), under which Russians who have been banned from traveling abroad are required to surrender their passports to the relevant authorities within five days of being notified of the ban. When the travel ban is lifted, they will be able to get their passports back after completing the application process.

Japan Yomiuri News (Yomiuri) on the 9th cited reliable sources, the ruling party Liberal Democratic Party, the first major faction of the Seiwa Policy Research Association (Abe faction), involved in part of the party fund-raising dinner income for personal use, the storm has endangered the Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office Special Investigations Department, and so on, is now investigating the matter.

The British government announced this week that it will tighten its immigration policy and plan to reduce the annual net migration to the UK to 300,000, mainly targeting student and healthcare visas. James Cleverly, the UK Home Secretary, said that the authorities will raise the income threshold and reduce the number of job vacancies, and that the immigration policy must be fair and sustainable.

The bipartisan U.S. Congress is divided over U.S.-Mexico border security reforms, and the Republican Party continues to boycott the Biden administration's $106 billion national security budget, which includes aid for Ukraine, leading to the unilateral cancellation of Ukrainian President Zelens' scheduled video address to the U.S. Senate on the 5th.

Tensions between Venezuela and Guyana escalated on May 5 when Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposed in a government meeting to submit a bill to the National Assembly to create a state called Guayana Esequiba in the area that Guyana has governed for more than a century, and to order the state oil company to issue licenses to extract crude oil.

In recent years, South Korea's rapidly declining fertility rate has caused concern among international observers, with experts saying that South Korea's rapidly declining population poses a serious threat to its economy and defense, and is even facing the risk of being annexed by North Korea to the south.

According to media reports, citing U.S. officials, Israel plans to install large pumps to divert seawater into the tunnels at Hamas to force out the militants, a move that could affect the water supply for people in the Gaza Corridor and cause ecological damage, but is also one of the options for permanently destroying the tunnels at Hamas.

Indonesia West Sumatra (West Sumatra) Merapi volcano (Marapi) erupted a few days ago (3), the Indonesian rescue team actively launched a search and rescue, found the remains of 11 mountaineers, 3 mountaineers survived, there are still 12 mountaineers unaccounted for.

The civil war that started in Burma the year before last has not yet subsided. On the 3rd of March, Thailand's foreign minister declared that if the conflict in Burma continues to escalate, there is a danger that refugees will be displaced, and that Thailand is ready to set up refugee shelters on the Thai-Burma border.