1. Lawmakers in South Korea voted to impeach the acting president, Han Duck-soo. The former prime minister has held the office for less than two weeks after replacing Yoon Suk Yeol, who had been forced out over his brief attempt to impose martial law. The opposition accused Mr Han of stalling the previous president’s impeachment process. Choi Sang-mok, the finance minister, is the next to fill the hot seat.
韓國國會議員投票彈劾代理總統韓德洙。這位前總理接替尹錫悅不到兩週便上任，而尹錫悅因短暫嘗試實施戒嚴而被迫下台。反對派指控韓德洙拖延了前總統的彈劾進程。接下來將接任這個艱難職位的是財政部長崔尚穆。
2. Azerbaijan Airlines paused more than half of its flights to Russia following reports that Russian air defences were to blame for a deadly crash of one of its passenger planes in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Azerbaijani officials have reportedly found that the flight was struck by Russian anti-aircraft fire. Russia warned against such “hypotheses”. At least 38 of the 67 people on board died.
亞塞拜疆航空公司暫停了超過一半飛往俄羅斯的航班，此前有報導稱俄羅斯防空系統是導致週三在哈薩克發生的一架客機致命墜毀的原因。據報導，亞塞拜疆官員發現該航班是被俄羅斯的防空火力擊中的。俄羅斯則警告不要提出此類「假設」。機上67人中至少有38人喪生。
3. NATO will step up its military presence in the Baltic Sea following a suspected act of sabotage that damaged undersea power and telecommunications cables running between Finland and Estonia. Estonia’s navy said it would guard the remaining power cable; Sweden’s coast guard also said it would increase surveillance of ships. Earlier Finland seized a tanker carrying **embargoed **Russian oil to investigate its involvement.
北約將加強在波羅的海的軍事存在，此前有疑似破壞行為損壞了芬蘭與愛沙尼亞之間的海底電力和通信電纜。愛沙尼亞海軍表示將保護剩餘的電力電纜；瑞典海岸警衛隊也表示將加強對船隻的監控。早些時候，芬蘭扣押了一艘運送受禁俄羅斯石油的油輪，以調查其是否涉及此事件。 embargo vs. cargo
4. Israeli soldiers ordered some 350 patients and staff to** evacuate** from Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza before torching sections of the medical facility. Israel’s army said that the hospital had served as a “Hamas terrorist stronghold”. Earlier, dozens of Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike in the area.
以色列士兵命令約350名患者和醫護人員撤離位於加薩北部的卡邁勒·阿德萬醫院，隨後放火燒毀了該醫療設施的部分區域。以色列軍方表示，該醫院曾被用作「哈馬斯恐怖分子的據點」。稍早前，以色列在該地區的空襲中造成數十名巴勒斯坦人喪生。
5. A soldier believed to be the first North Korean prisoner captured by Ukraine has died, according to South Korea’s spy agency. He was reportedly seized in the Kursk region of Russia. Ukraine says that North Korea has supported Russia’s invasion with more than 11,000 troops–and an **estimated **3,000 of them have been killed or wounded. Neither Russia nor North Korea confirmed the claims.
據韓國情報機構表示，一名被認為是首位被烏克蘭俘虜的北韓士兵已經死亡。據報導，他是在俄羅斯庫爾斯克地區被捕的。烏克蘭表示，北韓以超過11,000名士兵支持俄羅斯的入侵行動，估計其中約3,000人已陣亡或受傷。俄羅斯和北韓均未證實這些說法。
6. America imposed sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of Georgia’s governing Georgian Dream party, for jeopardising his country’s “democratic and Euro-Atlantic future”. The pro-Russia party recently suspended efforts for the country to join the European Union, prompting protests and violent repression. Salome Zourabichvili, Georgia’s departing and pro-EU president, accuses her successor (heir) of being illegitimately elected and has refused to step down this weekend.
美國對喬治亞執政黨「喬治亞夢想黨」的創始人比齊納·伊萬尼什維利實施制裁，指控其危害喬治亞的「民主與歐洲-大西洋未來」。該親俄政黨最近暫停了該國加入歐盟的努力，引發抗議並遭到暴力鎮壓。即將卸任的親歐盟總統薩洛梅·祖拉比什維利指控她的繼任者是非法當選，並拒絕在本週末卸任。
7. China approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. It would cost an estimated $137bn to build. It would be the world’s largest infrastructure project, expected to generate three times more power than the Three Gorges dam in China. Since its announcement in 2020, the project has **sparked **rare protests in Tibet and **provoked **environmental and economic concerns downstream in India and Bangladesh.
中國批准在西藏的雅魯藏布江上建造世界上最大的水力發電大壩，預計建造成本約為1,370億美元。這將成為世界上最大的基礎設施項目，預計其發電量將是中國三峽大壩的三倍。自2020年宣布以來，該項目在西藏引發了罕見的抗議活動，並在印度和孟加拉國下游引起了環境與經濟方面的擔憂。
ALLEX Program Interview Questions
1) introduction (30 seconds)
2) Why did you choose Japan and your current major?
3) During these 5 years, how has the experience shaped your career choices?
4) Teaching demo
5) Ask your friend to use 2 adjectives to describe you, one positive and the other negative
6) How much do you want to get into the program? And what's your plan afterward?
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