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MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) – Authorities were preparing Monday to resume the urgent and dangerous operation of extracting a youth football team from a flooded cave in Thailand after four boys were saved and the rain threatened the cave again. A heavy but brief downpour hit the area on Monday morning, but it was not clear how the rain affected the conditions inside the cave where the 12 boys and their trainer were stuck by the high waters more than two weeks. New oxygen tanks were placed in the cave before the start of the second rescue phase.

Thai authorities resumed operations to rescue members of a team of boys stranded in a flooded cave after successfully getting four boys Sunday. They said that the four boys already saved are hungry but are healthy in a hospital. The second operation began Monday at 11 am local time. It takes several hours. Officials said at a press conference that the parents of the rescued boys, whose names have not been released, have not yet been allowed to have physical contact with them, in part. waiting for a more in-depth examination of their physical condition. Eight boys are still inside the cave and with the coach of the team

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) – The rescuers were looking for dozens of missing people Monday in the southwest from Japan. start recovery and cleaning due to the extent of damage caused by floods and mudslides. At least 100 people have died or are presumed dead, of whom more than 60 are still missing, most in the most affected area of ​​Hiroshima. Seiji Toda was shocked and helpless when he saw his restaurant, which he opened almost 40 years ago, filled with mud huddled about 1 meter off the ground. YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – A judge in Myanmar ruled on Monday that the charges against two Reuters journalists accused of illegally detaining tables were covered with clean white tablecloths before they left. the official information can go to a full trial. The case of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo went through several months of hearings to determine whether there was enough evidence to support the charges, which the reporters denied. The two men were working on stories about the Rohingya crisis in western Myanmar, where state security forces are accused of committing mbadive human rights violations. man who flee 700 000 Muslim Rohingyas to the border.

(AP) – Five people reportedly disappeared from an excursion boat that sank in a storm off the island of Phuket, Thai authorities said Monday, although it was reported that there were no signs of it. it is unclear whether the five survived the sinking ship. Phuket Governor Norrapat Plodthong said the authorities were trying to verify their contact details and that some of them may have left Thailand. Norrapat said the development came after new information emerged from Thai immigration and the Chinese Embbady. The new information also showed that there were 89 tourists, including 87 Chinese, on the boat, instead of the previous figure of 93.

ISLAMABAD (AP) – The Pakistani authorities sent the son-in-law of former Prime Minister Minister at the prison after a court sentenced him to one year's imprisonment in a corruption case. Mohammad Safdar was convicted on Friday and authorities arrested him on Sunday in the garrison town of Rawalpindi. On Monday, he was taken to jail, where he will serve his one year sentence if he does not apply for bail. The development took place a few days after an anti-corruption court sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and Safdar for buying luxury apartments in London. Sharif and Nawaz were sentenced in absentia by an anti-corruption court while they were in London, where Sharif's wife is seriously ill.

BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese Communist Party newspaper on Monday denounced the pbadage of a US Navy ships cross the Taiwan Strait as a "psychological game", while both parties are 39, focus on trade and relations with Taiwan. The Global Times said in an editorial that the United States was exacerbating tensions by pbading Japan-based guided missile destroyers USS Mustin and USS Benfold through the 160-kilometer strait that separates Taiwan from mainland China. Although such missions are not uncommon, Taiwan and the United States have made unusual public confirmations about the pbading of the boats this weekend.