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World in brief: September 6, 2022

POLAND: A Warsaw court opened a defamation case today brought by the country’s most powerful politician, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, against a journalist who publicly alleges that he is gay.

Mr Kaczynski, the leader of Poland’s ruling right-wing party, is demanding an apology and a retraction from journalist Jan Pinski, who made the allegations on his YouTube channel last year.

Mr Pinski claimed that by hiding his sexuality, Mr Kaczynski leaves himself open to blackmail.

RUSSIA: Rabbis have called for an end to the fighting in Ukraine and expressed concern about the conflict creating tension for Jews in Russia.

“Relations between Russia and the rest of the world have rapidly deteriorated since the invasion began in February, resulting in economic uncertainty and a sense of fear and isolation not felt in decades,” the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia said in a statement on Monday.

A conference of the federation issued a resolution calling “for peace and the cessation of the bloodshed.”

SOUTH KOREA: The most powerful typhoon in years battered the country's south today, dumping three feet of rain, destroying roads and felling power lines, which left tens of thousands of homes without electricity.

Two people died  and some of the missing were stuck in a submerged basement car park.

Typhoon Hinnamnor grazed the resort island of Jeju and hit the mainland near the port city of Busan before weakening over the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan.

GERMANY: The government plans to drop a requirement for people to wear face masks on flights to and from the country.

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said today that “next to no masks are worn on international flights,” adding that Germany’s biggest airline, Lufthansa, has repeatedly warned that the mandate “can no longer be implemented, so we have refrained from this and are limiting ourselves to the domestic areas where this is possible.”

But he said the rule could be reimposed if coronavirus cases rise sharply.

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