The Preschool Education Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) shall come into force on June 1, 2025.The development of preschool education adheres to the government’s leadership, mainly organized by the government, and vigorously develops inclusive preschool education.The state establishes a funding system for preschool education,Conditional places gradually promote the implementation of free preschool education.. Kindergartens should scientifically implement conservation and education activities that conform to the laws of preschool children’s physical and mental development and age characteristics, and may not teach primary school courses.

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The adoption of the pre-school education law provides a strong legal guarantee for the universal, inclusive, safe and high-quality development of pre-school education

The revised Regulations on the Payment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises shall come into force on June 1, 2025. The revised Regulations clearly state that,Organs, institutions and large enterprises shall not require small and medium-sized enterprises to accept unreasonable payment terms, methods, conditions and liabilities for breach of contract, and shall not default on the payment for goods, projects and services of small and medium-sized enterprises.. Organs and institutions purchasing goods, projects and services from small and medium-sized enterprises shall pay the money within 30 days from the date of delivery of the goods, projects and services; If there are other provisions in the contract, such provisions shall prevail, but the longest payment period shall not exceed 60 days.

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Guarantee the payment of small and medium-sized enterprises! The State Council’s order is coming!

On June 1, 2025, the "Decision of the State Council on Amending the Provisional Regulations on Express Delivery" came into effect, which filled the institutional gap in the management of express delivery packaging in China. A chapter is added to the revised "Regulations" as Chapter VI, which is entitled "Express Packaging", including Articles 37 to 45. explicitEncourage the establishment of packaging recycling facilities and equipment in express delivery business premises, enterprises and institutions, residential quarters and other appropriate places; Encourage enterprises engaged in express delivery business to guide users to reuse packaging materials through bonus points, delivery discounts and other means..

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Li Qiang signed the the State Council Order to promulgate the Decision of the State Council on Amending the Provisional Regulations on Express Delivery.

The National Internet Information Office and the Ministry of Public Security jointly promulgated the Measures for the Safety Management of Face Recognition Technology Application, which will come into force on June 1, 2025. The "Measures" stipulate the basic requirements and processing rules for the application of face recognition technology to process face information, the safety specifications for the application of face recognition technology, and the responsibilities of supervision and management. Among them, it is clear that there are other ways of non-face recognition technology to achieve the same goal or meet the same business requirements.Face recognition technology should not be used as the only verification method.. No organization or individual may mislead, cheat or coerce individuals to accept face recognition technology to verify their personal identity on the grounds of handling business and improving service quality.

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New regulations on the application of face recognition technology are introduced! It will take effect on June 1.

Six departments, including the National Health and Wellness Commission, jointly issued the Notice on Regulating the Management of Advance Payment in Public Medical Institutions, requiring public medical institutions to completely stop collecting advance payment for outpatients from March 31, 2025.Reduce the amount of advance payment for hospitalization from June 30, 2025.. The notice requires that public medical institutions should refer to the average hospitalization expenses and personal out-of-pocket expenses actually incurred by inpatients in the first three years of the same disease, and reasonably determine the amount of hospitalization advance payment, and the amount of hospitalization advance payment for medical insurance patients will be reduced to the average level of individual out-of-pocket payment in the same disease and protection category.

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Advance payment for hospitalization in public hospitals, health!

In order to further facilitate the exchange of Chinese and foreign personnel, China has decided to expand the scope of visa-free countries, from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026.Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay.Ordinary passport holders who come to China for business, sightseeing, visiting relatives and friends, exchange visits and transit for less than 30 days may be exempted from visas. Those who do not meet the visa-free conditions still need to complete their visas to China before entering the country.

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China has tried visa-free policies for these five countries.

On June 1, 2025, the revised Regulations on the Protection of New Plant Varieties in People’s Republic of China (PRC) came into force. The "Regulations" have improved the relevant systems from these aspects:One isIt is stipulated that new plant varieties that violate the law and endanger social public interests and ecological environment shall not be granted variety rights.The second isIt is stipulated that except for the loss of novelty in sales and promotion, if it is confirmed by the competent departments of agriculture, rural areas, forestry and grassland of the provincial people’s government that the fact has spread according to the planting area, and if the crop varieties have been approved or registered for more than 2 years without applying for the right to new plant varieties, it is deemed to have lost novelty.The third isStrengthen the management of the names of authorized varieties, increase the cases that may not be used for variety naming, and make it clear that the names of authorized varieties do not meet the naming requirements, and shall be ordered to change their names. If they refuse to change their names, the variety rights shall be declared invalid.

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Li Qiang signed the the State Council Order to promulgate the revised Regulations on the Protection of New Plant Varieties in People’s Republic of China (PRC).

The General Administration of Market Supervision issued the first industry standard for market supervision-Management Standard for Online Stores of Natural Persons, which came into effect on June 1, 2025. The "Management Specification" clarifies the requirements of online trading platform operators on the entry, operation, exit and data submission of natural person online shop platforms.The first is to unify the entry standards.. In the process of entry, according to the principle of minimum necessity, the scope of information collected by online trading platform operators when natural person online stores enter the platform is clarified to facilitate the market access of natural person online stores.The second is to unify operating rules.. In the operation link, the management requirements of online trading platform operators on the operation inspection, online store display, information publicity, consumer complaints, compliance management, rights relief and other aspects of natural person online stores are clarified, and natural person online stores are urged to operate according to laws and regulations.The third is the unified exit mechanism.. In the exit link, we will implement the statutory information disclosure requirements in detail and emphasize the protection of consumers’ legitimate rights and interests.The fourth is to unify the data submission standards.. Clarify the requirements of online trading platform operators for information record preservation of natural person online stores and the requirements for submitting data to market supervision departments, so as to lay a data foundation for intelligent supervision of online transactions.

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"Natural person online shop management standard" issued

The People’s Bank of China and other six departments jointly issued the Notice on Regulating Supply Chain Finance Business and Guiding Supply Chain Information Service Institutions to Serve SME Financing Better, which will take effect on June 15, 2025. The "Notice" requires that core enterprises in the supply chain pay the funds of SMEs in a timely manner, share the financing costs of the supply chain reasonably, and must not use their dominant position to default on the accounts of SMEs or improperly increase the accounts receivable of SMEs.It is clear that the payment term of accounts receivable in electronic certificate should be within 6 months in principle, and the longest is no more than 1 year.Encourage commercial banks to develop diversified supply chain financial models, and support supply chain enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, to carry out credit loans and pledge financing business based on movable property and rights such as orders, inventories and warehouse receipts.

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The relevant person in charge of the People’s Bank of China answered a reporter’s question on "Notice on Regulating Supply Chain Finance Business and Guiding Supply Chain Information Service Institutions to Serve SME Financing Better"

The Measures for the Promotion and Management of Catering Industry jointly revised and issued by the Ministry of Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission will be implemented on June 15, 2025, and the original Measures for the Management of Catering Industry (Trial) will be abolished at the same time. The revision of the Measures highlights the promotion orientation.Increase the catering industry’s foreign exchange and cooperation, digital development, standard system revision, and cultivation of local specialty catering.And other encouraging provisions to guide the high-quality development of the catering industry. Strictly comply with the requirements of relevant laws and regulations, fromInternal management, reminders, feeding links, consumption scenariosClarify the anti-food waste requirements and encouraging measures of catering service operators, and optimize and adjust the relevant requirements of operation and management. At the same time, improve the responsibilities of relevant competent departments and the terms of law enforcement convergence, and increase relevant contents such as promoting industry development, stopping food waste and safe production.

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The Ministry of Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission revised and promulgated the Measures for the Promotion and Management of Catering Industry.

On June 1, 2025, the "Measures for the Administration of Adopting International Standards" revised by the General Administration of Market Supervision came into effect. The main contents of the revision include:One isClarify the scope of the adopted international standards and the scope of the subject of adopting standards.The second isEstablish a tracking mechanism for the whole process of international standards.The third isClarify the requirements for the formulation cycle of national standards.The fourth isStrengthen the requirements of copyright policy.The fifth isImprove the supervision and error correction mechanism adopting international standards.

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It will be implemented on June 1! "Management Measures for Adopting International Standards" was promulgated

The national standard "Standard for Comprehensive Evaluation of Public Credit" (GB/T 45255-2025) jointly drafted by the National Center for Public Credit and Geospatial Information, China National Institute of Standardization and other units was implemented on June 1, 2025. This standard is based on the general principle, evaluation content, evaluation grade expression method and meaning, evaluation cycle, evaluation verification and evaluation application of public credit comprehensive evaluation.The technical requirements for comprehensive evaluation of public credit are stipulated.It provides reference for all regions and departments to promote the comprehensive evaluation and application of public credit, and is of great significance for accelerating the construction of a new credit-based supervision mechanism.

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The National Development and Reform Commission promotes the publication of the national standard "Standard for Comprehensive Evaluation of Public Credit"

On June 1st, 2025, the Measures for Meteorological Application and Service of Artificial Intelligence issued by China Meteorological Bureau and National Internet Information Office came into effect. The Measures takes "agile governance" as an important principle, respects the development law of artificial intelligence, and adheres to the legislative orientation of promoting innovation and governing according to law. "Measures" revolve aroundData Openness, Algorithm Model Development and Application Scenario EmpowermentAnd put forward specific policy support and promotion measures to strengthenArtificial intelligence and meteorological monitoring and early warning, forecasting and numerical forecastingDeep integration of applications in other fields, and construction of artificial intelligence meteorological application service scenarios. At the same time, it provides for the competent meteorological departments to participate in the development and governance of artificial intelligence application services in the international meteorological field.

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Measures for Meteorological Application Services of Artificial Intelligence released

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　　On June 9, 2008, Zhongxing-9 was lifted by the Long March-3 B rocket and became the first real dedicated TV direct broadcast satellite in China. It has been more than 11 years since this flight. In the past 11 years, China’s first generation direct broadcast satellite space segment system has grown from scratch, serving 140 million users, effectively bridging the digital divide and enabling sustainable development.

　　Constructing the Space Segment System of the First Generation Direct Broadcasting Satellite in China

　　In the 1980s and 1990s, the demand for radio and television services increased sharply in all walks of life, and the demonstration of direct broadcast satellite system was accelerated in China. In 2000, the project of direct broadcast of radio and television satellite was included in the high-tech project in the tenth five-year plan of the country. In January, 2005, with the support of the former State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the scheme of the same orbit, the same frequency band, the same capacity and the same coverage for Xinnuo-2 and Zhongxing-9 satellites was adopted. At the same time, the space segment system of China’s first-generation satellite live broadcast was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission and started to be implemented, and China Weitong was responsible for the specific management and operation.

　　Looking back 11 years ago, Jiang Longcheng, who was then in charge of the payload of China Satcom Zhongxing No.9, was filled with emotion: "I have been with it from preliminary design, key design to supervision." Zhongxing 9 is like a daughter in her own boudoir.

　　According to Jiang Longcheng, the live broadcast satellite system has the advantages of wide coverage, high transmission quality, low receiving cost and convenient maintenance. China has a vast territory, complex terrain and a large population. Direct broadcast satellite is the most effective means to realize the listening and watching of radio and television in the old, young, marginal, poor and vast rural areas.

　　Different from other satellites, the direct broadcast satellite needs repeated coverage optimization design to effectively cover the whole territory of China. However, for the first time, a high-power amplifier was used in Zhongxing No.9, and its effective radiation power met the requirements of China direct broadcast satellite system, which enabled more than 97% of the residents in China to directly receive satellite radio and television programs from China using a 0.45-meter small-aperture antenna.

　　As the confident Jiang Longcheng expected, less than one month after the launch, on July 5, Zhongxing 9 opened four transponders to transmit 45 sets of TVs and 43 broadcasts, and entered the trial operation stage; On August 6th, nearly 7,000 satellite TV receivers in Xizang were transferred from Asia-Pacific IIR to Zhongxing 9, marking the official opening of the direct broadcast satellite service in China. In the same month, the coverage of Zhongxing 9 was tested on the spot, and 27 test sites including Altay, Xisha, Mohe and Pulan were selected. The results showed that Zhongxing 9 had good performance.

　　In 2013, in order to ensure the safe broadcast of the live satellite service, avoid the systematic risk of the operation of Zhongxing 9 Lone Star and ensure the safe broadcast of radio and television programs watched by hundreds of millions of people, China Satellite Communication restarted the construction of Zhongxing 9A (Xinnuo 2 replacement star). Zhongxing 9A also added the South China Sea beam, which solved the problem that it is difficult for military and civilians in the South China Sea to watch TV. On June 19, 2017, the domestic broadcast live star Zhongxing 9A was launched, and then it undertook the task of safe backup of Zhongxing 9 live star.

　　Serving 140 million users to bridge the digital divide

　　A few hundred meters away from xichang satellite launch center, in the depths of Daliangshan Mountain, is Mayelin Village where Yi people live together. Although it is only a few hundred meters away, the members of the Zhongxing No.9 test team stationed at the launch site and the villagers in Mayelin Village have very different information acquisition. The experimental team members from big cities know radio, television and internet like the back of their hands, but many villagers who have lived in the deep mountains for generations have only been to Mianning County as far as possible, and there are almost no channels to understand the outside world.

　　In this way, an invisible digital divide lies in the Great Liangshan Mountain, and the broadcast satellite Zhongxing 9/Zhongxing 9A launched from here provides an effective technical means for narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, eliminating the digital divide and building information fairness and justice.

　　Through the live satellite of Zhongxing-9 and Zhongxing-9A, a "pot" for receiving satellite signals to the outside world was set up on the roofs of remote villages in Daliangshan. The people in rural Xizang witnessed the grand occasion of the Beijing Olympic Games that year, and more compatriots in remote areas were able to hear and see the care and voice of the CPC Central Committee for the first time.

　　The direct broadcast satellite "every village is connected" and "every household is connected" projects have effectively covered 595,000 administrative villages, meeting the needs of 140 million users to listen to and watch radio and television programs, exceeding one third of the total number of radio and television users in China. The problem of "difficult, expensive and poor" coverage of rural radio and television in China has been fundamentally solved, and the quality, level and viewing effect of rural radio and television coverage have been greatly improved.

　　Up to now, rural users in China can listen to and watch 17 sets of central radio programs, 17 sets of central TV programs, 27 sets of provincial radio programs and 41 sets of provincial TV programs through Zhongxing 9 satellite, and Xinjiang, Xizang, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou and Hainan have achieved satellite transmission and directional coverage of programs in their own provinces (regions) or cities.

　　Beginning in 2018, the dual-star backup of central radio and television programs and minority language programs will be gradually realized through China Satellite 9A. At the same time, the South China Sea beam on the satellite will be used to provide radio and television programs of the central and some coastal provinces to the people in the South China Sea.

　　Promote model innovation and empower sustainable development.

　　In recent years, the direct broadcast satellite system has explored new focal points and ways to achieve radio and television services to the overall national work and meet the people’s beautiful spiritual and cultural needs, focusing on the positive actions of building a well-off society in an all-round way, accurately helping the poor, revitalizing the countryside and enriching the people, and has also played a very good role in helping the poor and helping the wisdom and improving the level of rural civilization.

　　Facing the first generation live broadcast satellite system that has been in operation for 11 years, starting the replacement satellite project is the next task of China Satcom. In addition, the innovative exploration of direct broadcast satellite business model is also a topic.

　　Although the direct broadcast satellite has greatly improved the radio and television public service in remote rural areas, under the situation that the number of users of direct broadcast satellite service has increased rapidly year by year, the transponder rental rate has improved, but the high-quality transponder resources have not been fully utilized.

　　Jiang Longcheng, who is now the technical director of China Satcom Business Operation Center, has taken a longer-term view of the direct broadcast satellite business that he has devoted half his life to. He hopes to increase the use of direct broadcast satellites, especially promote the business application in key areas, accelerate the implementation of the value-added business plan, and tap the value of many users in various directions.

　　"For live broadcast satellites, only by giving full play to their excellent performance and benefits can we meet the needs of the people for radio and television services more widely, which is also the direction that live broadcast satellites should work hard in the future." Jiang Longcheng said. (Hu Wei Wu Lin)

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The Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues, and the death toll has increased again!

According to CCTV news, on May 18th, local time, the health department in Gaza said that in the past day, 83 Gaza people were killed and 105 injured in Israeli military operations in Gaza.

Since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict broke out on October 7th last year, the death toll in Gaza has reached 35,386, with 79,366 injured.

According to a report by the Palestinian News Agency on May 18th, at least 15 people were killed and 30 injured when Israeli troops intensively bombed the Gebali refugee camp in the northern Gaza.

On May 18th, The Israel Times quoted the IDF as saying that in the past day, the Israeli air force attacked more than 70 targets in the Gaza, and the ground forces continued to carry out military operations in Rafah, Gebali and other places.

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Israeli forces bombed refugee camps in northern Gaza.

Causing 15 deaths and 30 injuries

CCTV News quoted the official Palestinian news agency (Wafa News Agency) as saying that on May 18th, local time, the Israeli army carried out a fierce air raid on the Gebali refugee camp in the northern part of the Gaza, killing 15 people and injuring 30 others.

According to the report, the Israeli army bombed a local settlement for the homeless and attacked the displaced people who tried to return home. The injured people have been sent to Kamal Adouan Hospital in the northern part of Gaza for treatment.

On the morning of May 18th, the Israel Defense Forces issued a statement saying that the Israeli army continued to carry out military operations in Gebali, the central part of the Gaza Strip and the eastern part of Rafah, the southern city of the Gaza Strip, hitting more than 70 targets of Palestinian armed groups in the past day.

Israeli warplanes launched air strikes.

The death toll continues to rise.

According to Xinhua News Agency on May 18, the Israeli military issued a statement on the evening of May 17, saying that Israeli warplanes launched air strikes on a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin that day.

Recently, the Israeli army rarely dispatched fighter planes to carry out air strikes on the West Bank, and many Israeli media described the air strikes as "rare". The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on the same day that one Palestinian was killed and five others were injured in the air strike.

According to CCTV news, on May 17th, local time, the Israeli army continued its military operations in the Gebali-Yeh area in the northern Gaza Strip. According to Israeli media, the recent fighting in Gebali is one of the "fiercest" battles since the outbreak of this round of conflict.

On May 17th, local time, the IDF issued a notice saying that in the past week, the 7th Armored Brigade of the Israeli Army killed about 60 Palestinian militants in close combat in the Gebali area in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army also launched dozens of air strikes, blowing up many targets. The Israeli paratroopers brigade also carried out operations in the Gebali area, found a warehouse with rockets and explosives, and arrested 20 armed men in a nearby shelter.

According to local Israeli media quoted Israeli military sources, the recent fighting in the Gebali area is one of the fiercest battles since the outbreak of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict. At present, the actions of the Israeli army are mainly concentrated in the hinterland of Gebali Yeh refugee camp. There are many narrow lanes in the refugee camp, which hinder the movement of armored vehicles such as military tanks. Palestinian militants hide in ground buildings and underground tunnels and constantly launch attacks on Israeli troops.

On May 17th, Hamas released a video of militants of the organization recently attacking Israeli combat troops in Gebali and eastern Rafah. The video shows that armed men in Hamas attacked Israeli tanks and bulldozers several times by ambush and using anti-tank weapons.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Jehad) issued a statement on May 18th local time, saying that an Israeli air strike on a residential building in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank of the Palestinian Jordan River resulted in the death of a commander of the quds force Jenin camp, an armed wing of the organization.

The statement condemned the Israeli army’s attack on residential buildings, causing civilian casualties in refugee camps. This is the continuation of the Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip in the West Bank, and it is an intolerable "war crime". The statement said that the use of the air force to carry out assassination was a dangerous development, and the attack confirmed that the Israeli army had escalated its operations in the West Bank.

According to Palestinian media reports, after the air raid, the local Palestinian people in Jenin launched a large-scale demonstration to protest the Israeli air raid.

Found in the Gaza area

The bodies of three Israeli hostages

According to German media reports, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari announced on May 17th that the Israeli army had found the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Gaza.

According to reports, Shani Luke, a girl with dual German and Israeli citizenship, was declared dead at the end of October last year, and her body was discovered by the Israeli army a few days ago. The Israeli military confirmed that the other two bodies found were a 28-year-old woman, amit Bouskila, and a 56-year-old man, Yitzhak GreLenter.

The Israeli military did not immediately disclose the location where the body was found. But according to media reports, the body was found in the Hamas Tunnel in Gaza.

German Foreign Minister Berber expressed condolences to the families of the victims. He declared on the social media platform: "I express my condolences to them and their relatives who can say goodbye now."

In addition, Qatar Al Jazeera reported on May 17th that foreign ministers from 13 countries jointly sent a letter to Israeli Foreign Minister Katz, warning Israel to stop its ground offensive against Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, and allowing more assistance to the Palestinians.

According to the report, the letter is four pages long and the date of payment is May 15th. Except the United States, all other members of the Group of Seven (G7) have signed this letter. The letter was signed by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Japan, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea and Sweden.

In this letter to Katz, 13 foreign ministers also called on Netanyahu’s government to open all border crossings, including Rafah, which borders Egypt, to alleviate the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Hussein’s armed forces announced that they had hit the US military drone.

British cruise ship attacked near Moka, Yemen

According to foreign media reports, on May 17, local time, the Houthi armed forces in Yemen announced the shooting down of an American MQ-9 "Death" drone, and announced the picture of the shooting down moment.

Ye Haiya Salia, a spokesman for Houthi armed forces, said that on the evening of May 16, the armed forces shot down an MQ-9 drone with surface-to-air missiles. The picture shows that the missile vacated in the night, and after hitting, the debris of the drone splashed and fell quickly.

The report said that the US military had been informed of the news, but did not respond. It is reported that the cost of each "Death" drone is about 30 million US dollars, the flying height can reach 50,000 feet (about 15,240 meters), and the battery life can reach 24 hours.

In addition, on May 18th, local time, the British Maritime Safety Company (Ambrey) said that it had received news that a crude oil tanker flying the Panamanian flag was attacked about 10 nautical miles southwest of Moka, Yemen.

According to foreign media reports, the company said that radio communication showed that the tanker was hit by a missile and the tanker caught fire. However, the company did not disclose the specific content of radio communication.

The report also said that earlier on May 18, the British Maritime Trade Action Office under the British military said that a ship was attacked by unknown objects in the Red Sea and the ship was slightly damaged. The British Maritime Trade Action Office said that the attacked ship and crew were safe and the ship was on its way to the next stop. According to the office, the incident occurred about 76 nautical miles northwest of Hodeida, Yemen.

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