Anggota parlemen Rusia siap mendukung pelarangan menyeluruh atas penjualan vape, kata Ketua Duma Negara Rusia Vyacheslav Volodin. Ia menunjuk pada risiko kesehatan yang jelas terkait dengan vaping, menekankan bahwa hanya tindakan ketat yang dapat melindungi anak di bawah umur dari "racun cair."
Pada hari Senin, Menteri Perindustrian dan Perdagangan Anton Alikhanov menyerukan pelarangan penjualan vape, dengan alasan bahwa batasan usia saat ini "tidak selalu bekerja secara efektif." Ia menambahkan bahwa masalah tersebut menyangkut dirinya secara langsung sebagai ayah dari beberapa anak dan mencatat bahwa ia sangat menyadari bahwa penjual vape menargetkan anak di bawah umur.
Keesokan harinya, Volodin menyuarakan dukungannya untuk inisiatif tersebut dan mengisyaratkan bahwa parlemen "mengharapkan inisiatif legislatif yang sesuai dari pemerintah," menambahkan bahwa anggota parlemen "akan mendukungnya, dan akan mempertimbangkan RUU tersebut sebagai prioritas."
Pembicara tersebut mencatat bahwa bahaya kesehatan dari vaping tidak diragukan lagi. “Cairan vape mengandung logam berat dan senyawa beracun,” katanya, mengingat bahwa undang-undang sebelumnya yang melarang penjualan vape kepada anak di bawah umur tidak membuahkan hasil yang diinginkan.
“Bahkan di bawah ancaman hukuman, penjual yang tidak jujur terus menawarkan racun cair ini kepada remaja. Hanya larangan dan penghapusan vape secara menyeluruh dari rak-rak toko yang akan membantu melindungi anak-anak dari efek berbahayanya,” katanya.
Pada bulan April 2023, Rusia mengesahkan undang-undang yang melarang penjualan vape kepada anak di bawah umur, termasuk produk bebas nikotin. Hukumannya termasuk denda berat atau kerja pemasyarakatan. Pada tahun 2024, pajak cukai cairan nikotin digandakan, sebuah langkah yang digambarkan oleh Kementerian Keuangan sebagai “larangan.”
Menurut jajak pendapat SuperJob pada tahun 2023, pangsa perokok Rusia yang menggunakan vape hampir tiga kali lipat dalam beberapa tahun terakhir. Survei tersebut menunjukkan bahwa 21% perokok kini hanya menggunakan vaporizer elektronik, dan 16% lainnya menggunakan vape dan rokok tradisional. Pada tahun 2019, angka tersebut masing-masing hanya 8% dan 12%.
Pada tahun yang sama, RIA Novosti melaporkan bahwa antara 3,5 dan 4 juta orang Rusia menggunakan sistem pengiriman nikotin elektronik.
Namun, para pengkritik tindakan keras tersebut telah memperingatkan bahwa larangan penuh dapat menjadi bumerang dengan mendorong pengguna ke pasar gelap. Selain itu, Kementerian Keuangan Rusia memproyeksikan potensi kerugian pendapatan sebesar 15 miliar rubel ($189 juta) per tahun jika vape dilarang sepenuhnya. Untuk mengimbangi kerugian tersebut, Kementerian Kesehatan mengusulkan kenaikan pajak cukai pada rokok tradisional.
The right-wing Dutch cabinet has collapsed, just 11 months after ministers were sworn in and 18 months since the last general election.
Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right PVV, pulled the plug on the coalition on Tuesday morning, accusing the other three parties of failing to support his plans to introduce the “toughest asylum regime ever” and a 10-point plan announced at a press conference a week ago.
“No signature for our asylum plans, no changes to the main coalition agreement. The PVV is leaving the coalition,” Wilders said on social media.
Prime minister Dick Schoof is now expected to present his resignation to the king before the end of the day. New elections will not take place until the autumn.
At a press conference last week, Wilders presented a 10-point plan to cut migration by enlisting the army to secure and patrol the borders, close refugee accommodation facilities and send home all Syrian refugees on the grounds that the country is no longer high-risk.
On Monday he demanded the three other party leaders “add their signatures” to the plans and ensure some measures are realised within a few weeks. Otherwise, he said, he would quit.
The four parties met on Monday evening and again on Tuesday morning, when Wilders said he was leaving.
BBB leader Caroline van der Plas said she was extremely angry and described Wilders’ action as “irresponsible”. “He has all the trumps in his hand and yet he just pulls the plug,” she told reporters.
Nicolien van Vroonhoven, who replaced Pieter Omtzigt as head of the NSC, said the decision was “incomprehensible”, while Dilan Yesilgöz, leader of the second biggest coalition party, the VVD, said there was no difference of opinion between the parties and that she was extremely angry.
“We had a right-wing majority and he lets it all go for his ego,” she told reporters. “He’s just doing what he wants.” Wilders, she said, did not want to accept responsibility and had abandoned his voters.
Opposition
Opposition party leaders have welcomed news of the cabinet collapse, with Henri Bontebal of the CDA describing the coalition as reckless and irresponsible.
“We’ve had a year of political amateurism and the Netherlands has come to a standstill,” he said. “The PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB were busy with their own issues rather than the country itself.”
D66 leader Rob Jetten said the past 18 months have been typified by infighting and crises. “They’ve made progress on very few big issues,” he said. “And the other coalition parties allowed themselves to be taken hostage by Wilders.”
In the Netherlands, when a government falls, ministers usually stay in place in a caretaker capacity. However, Wilders told reporters on Tuesday morning that all the PVV ministers will withdraw from their posts immediately.
UN chief Antonio Guterres called Monday for an independent investigation into the killing of dozens of Palestinians near a US-backed aid centre in Gaza after rescuers blamed the deaths on Israeli fire and the military denied any involvement.
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli gunfire killed at least 31 people and wounded 176 near the aid distribution site in the southern city of Rafah, with AFP photos showing civilians at the scene carting away bodies and medics at nearby hospitals reporting a deluge of gunshot wound victims.
The Israeli military, however, denied its troops had fired on civilians in or around the centre, and both it and the aid site's administrator accused Hamas of sowing false rumours.
"I am appalled by the reports of Palestinians killed and injured while seeking aid in Gaza yesterday. It is unacceptable that Palestinians are risking their lives for food," Guterres said in a statement, without assigning blame for the deaths.
The UN has declined to work with the group out of concerns about its neutrality, with some aid agencies saying it appears designed to cater to Israeli military objectives.
Killed right in front of me:
An eyewitness from the scene in Rafah, Sameh Hamuda, 33, had told AFP he was headed towards the aid site amid a crowd of other Palestinians when "quadcopter drones opened fire on the people, and tanks started shooting".
"Several people were killed right in front of me," he said.
Another witness, Abdullah Barbakh, 58, also told AFP "the army opened fire from drones and tanks".
Following the reports, the Israeli army said an initial inquiry found its troops "did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the humanitarian aid distribution site".
Army spokesman Effie Defrin said in a video message that "Hamas is doing its best, its utmost, to stop us from" distributing aid, and vowed to "investigate each one of those allegations" against Israeli troops.
"I urge you not to believe every rumour spread by Hamas," he added.
GHF also denied any deaths or injuries took place, adding that "these fake reports have been actively fomented by Hamas".
Israel has come under increasing international pressure to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza following a more than two-month blockade on aid that was only recently eased.
The UN has warned the entire population of the territory is facing the risk of famine.
It has also reported recent incidents of aid being looted, including by armed individuals.
Points of contention:
Talks aimed at securing a ceasefire and the return of hostages taken by Hamas during its October 2023 attack that triggered the war have failed to produce a breakthrough.
Militants took 251 hostages during the attack, 57 of whom remain in Gaza, including 34 who the Israeli military says are dead.
After the two sides failed to agree on a new ceasefire proposal last week, Hamas said it was ready to "immediately begin a round of indirect negotiations to reach an agreement on the points of contention".
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz, meanwhile, said he had told the army "to continue forward in Gaza against all targets, regardless of any negotiations".
Since a brief truce collapsed in March, Israel has intensified its operations to destroy Hamas.
On Monday, Gaza's civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said 14 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza, "including six children and three women, in addition to more than 20 missing individuals still under the rubble".
"This house has been bombed before... and people were martyred previously," resident Mousa al-Bursh told AFP.
"The house primarily belongs to the Al-Bursh family, but it shelters many others, more than one family, and we don't know the number of victims inside."
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says at least 4,201 people have been killed in the territory since Israel resumed its offensive on March 18, taking the war's overall toll to 54,470, mostly civilians.
Hamas's 2023 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, also mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures
Presiden Republik Indonesia Prabowo Subianto bertindak sebagai Inspektur Upacara dalam rangkaian Upacara Peringatan Hari Lahir Pancasila 2025 yang berlangsung di Gedung Pancasila, Jakarta Pusat, Pada hari Senin, 02/06/2025.
Upacara dimulai pukul 09.30 WIB, yang ditandai dengan tiupan terompet.
Agenda ini dihadiri oleh sejumlah pejabat negara, jajaran menteri Kabinet Indonesia Maju, TNI-Polri, tokoh masyarakat, serta pelajar dan mahasiswa.
Turut hadir Megawati Soekarnoputri selaku Dewan Pengarah Badan Pembinaan Ideologi Pancasila, dan Wakil Presiden Ke-10 RI Jusuf Kalla, serta Wapres Ke-6 RI Try Sutrisno.
Prabowo pun memasuki lapangan upacara pada pukul 09.20 WIB. Prabowo berjalan keluar dari Gedung Pancasila bersama Gibran dan Megawati.
Tampak hadir di barisan depan tamu VIP, di antaranya Menteri Koordinator Bidang Infrastruktur dan Pembangunan Kewilayahan Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, yang duduk bersebelahan dengan Panglima TNI Agus Subianto, dan Kapolri Listyo Sigit, dan Menteri Koordinator Bidang Hukum, HAM, Imigrasi, dan Pemasyarakatan Yusril Ihza Mahendra.
Di teras Gedung Pancasila juga tampak Menteri Keuangan Sri Mulyani, Menteri Kebudayaan Fadli Zon, Ketua Dewan Ekonomi Nasional Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Menteri Dalam Negeri Tito Karnavian, Menteri Pertahanan Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, Menteri Pendidikan Tinggi dan Saintek Brian Yuliarto.
Bertindak sebagai Komandan Upacara, Kolonel Marinir Achmad Hadi Al-Hasny, dan kini menjabat sebagai Komandan Lanal Mataram Nusa Tenggara Barat.
Dalam amanatnya, Presiden Prabowo menegaskan pentingnya menjaga dan mengamalkan nilai-nilai Pancasila sebagai dasar dan ideologi negara dalam kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara.
Selain upacara, rangkaian kegiatan juga mencakup pembacaan teks Pancasila, pembukaan oleh Ketua Badan Pembinaan Ideologi Pancasila (BPIP), serta penampilan budaya yang memperlihatkan keberagaman dan semangat persatuan Indonesia.
Upacara penurunan bendera akan dilakukan di hari yang sama pada pukul 16.00 WIB, namun tanpa kehadiran peserta dan tamu undangan.
Pemerintah daerah, kantor perwakilan RI di luar negeri, instansi pemerintah, serta satuan pendidikan diminta menggelar upacara bendera secara luring pada 2 Juni 2025 pukul 07.00 waktu setempat.
Adapun tema peringatan tahun ini adalah "Memperkokoh Ideologi Pancasila Menuju Indonesia Raya", dengan visual utama berupa Burung Garuda Pancasila sebagai karakter bangsa yang berdaulat, mandiri, dan berkepribadian.
At least 31 people were killed and over 150 were wounded on Sunday while on their way to receive food in the Gaza Strip, according to health officials and multiple witnesses. The witnesses said Israeli forces fired on crowds around a kilometer (1,000 yards) from an aid site run by an Israeli-backed foundation.
The army in a brief statement said it was “currently unaware of injuries caused by (Israeli military) fire within the humanitarian aid distribution site. The matter is still under review.”
The foundation — promoted by Israel and the United States — said in a statement it delivered aid “without incident” early Sunday. It has denied previous accounts of chaos and gunfire around its sites, which are in Israeli military zones where independent access is limited.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said 31 people were killed and 170 others were wounded.
A new aid system marred by chaos
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation ’s aid distribution has been marred by chaos in its first week of operations, and multiple witnesses have said Israeli troops fired on crowds near its delivery sites. Before Sunday, at least six people had been killed and more than 50 wounded, according to local health officials.
The foundation says the private security contractors guarding its sites have not fired on the crowds. Israel’s military has acknowledged firing warning shots on previous occasions.
The foundation said in a statement it distributed 16 truckloads of aid early Sunday “without incident,” and dismissed what it described as “false reporting about deaths, mass injuries and chaos.”
‘The scene was horrible’
Thousands of people headed toward the distribution site in southern Gaza hours before dawn. As they approached, Israeli forces ordered them to disperse and come back later, witnesses said. When the crowds reached the Flag Roundabout, around 1 kilometer (half a mile) away, at around 3 a.m., Israeli forces opened fire, the witnesses said.
“There was fire from all directions, from naval warships, from tanks and drones,” said Amr Abu Teiba, who was in the crowd.
He said he saw at least 10 bodies with gunshot wounds and several other wounded people, including women. People used carts to ferry the dead and wounded to a field hospital. “The scene was horrible,” he said.
Most people were shot “in the upper part of their bodies, including the head, neck and chest,” said Dr. Marwan al-Hams, a health ministry official at Nasser Hospital, where many of the wounded were transferred after being brought to the field hospital run by the Red Cross.
He said 24 people were being treated in Nasser Hospital’s intensive care unit. A colleague, surgeon Khaled al-Ser, later said 150 wounded people had arrived, along with 28 bodies.
Ibrahim Abu Saoud, another witness, said the military fired from about 300 meters (yards) away.
Abu Saoud said he saw many people with gunshot wounds, including a young man who he said died at the scene. “We weren’t able to help him,” he said.
Mohammed Abu Teaima, 33, said he saw Israeli forces open fire and kill his cousin and a woman as they headed toward the distribution site. He said his cousin was shot in his chest and his brother-in-law was among the wounded.
An AP reporter arrived at the field hospital at around 6 a.m. and saw dozens of wounded, including women and children. The reporter also saw crowds of people returning from the distribution point. Some carried boxes of aid but most appeared to be empty-handed.
Officials at the field hospital said at least 21 people were killed and another 175 were wounded, without saying who opened fire on them. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.
Gaza’s Health Ministry provided the same toll and later updated it.
The UN says new aid system violates humanitarian principles
Israel and the U.S. say the new system is aimed at preventing Hamas from siphoning off assistance. Israel has not provided any evidence of systematic diversion, and the U.N. denies it has occurred.
U.N. agencies and major aid groups have refused to work with the new system, saying it violates humanitarian principles because it allows Israel to control who receives aid and forces people to relocate to distribution sites, risking yet more mass displacement in the coastal territory.
“It’s essentially engineered scarcity,” Jonathan Whittall, interim head in Gaza of the U.N. humanitarian office, said last week.
The U.N. system has struggled to bring in aid after Israel slightly eased its nearly three-month blockade of the territory last month. Those groups say Israeli restrictions, the breakdown of law and order and widespread looting make it extremely difficult to deliver aid to Gaza’s roughly 2 million Palestinians.
Experts have warned that the territory is at risk of famine if more aid is not brought in.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251. They are still holding 58 hostages, around a third believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.
Israel’s military campaign has killed over 54,000 people, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants. The offensive has destroyed vast areas, displaced around 90% of the population and left people almost completely reliant on international aid.
The latest efforts at ceasefire talks appeared to stumble Saturday when Hamas said it had sought amendments to a U.S. ceasefire proposal that Israel had approved, and the U.S. envoy called that “unacceptable.”
Also Sunday, Israel said its forces killed the commander of a militant cell it says was behind an attack that killed 21 soldiers in the war’s early months. It was among the deadliest single events for the military in nearly 20 months of fighting, excluding Hamas’ initial onslaught. A blast from a rocket-propelled grenade fired by militants triggered explosives the soldiers were laying to blow up buildings.
Washington is “vilifying” Beijing, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Sunday. The accusation follows remarks made by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is deliberately ignoring calls for peace from nations in the region, according to the ministry.
Earlier, Hegseth claimed that China poses a real and potentially imminent threat, and urged Washington’s allies in the Indo-Pacific region to increase defense and security spending.
“Hegseth deliberately ignored the call for peace and development by countries in the region and instead touted a Cold War mentality of bloc confrontation, vilified China with defamatory allegations, and falsely labeled China a ‘threat’,” the ministry said in a statement.
Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday, the defense secretary accused Chinese authorities of seeking to fundamentally alter the region’s status quo and aiming to “become a hegemonic power.” Hegseth also raised the issue of Taiwan, which relies on the US for its defense - accusing Beijing of preparing to invade the territory.
The Chinese foreign ministry described the comments as “deplorable” and “intended to sow division” in the Asia-Pacific. It emphasized that the only country that “deserves to be called a hegemonic power” is the US, which it accused of undermining peace and stability in the region.
Responding to Hegseth’s remarks on the self-governing island, the ministry reiterated that the issue is entirely China’s internal affair. It stressed that no foreign nation has the right to interfere and warned the US against using the Taiwan issue as leverage against Beijing.
Taiwan has long been a source of discord between Beijing and Washington. While China advocates peaceful reunification, it has warned that any move toward formal independence could trigger armed conflict. Beijing contends that certain elements within the US government are pushing Taiwan toward that outcome.
China has also repeatedly criticized US-led joint military drills in the Indo-Pacific, arguing that they destabilize the region and provoke tensions over Taiwan.
In addition to geopolitical disputes, the two nations are at odds over trade. US President Donald Trump has blamed Beijing for America’s significant trade deficit with China.
In May, both countries agreed to pause the tariff hikes introduced the previous month for 90 days, while maintaining a baseline 10% duty on mutual imports. Earlier this week, Trump accused China of violating that agreement.
Beberapa mantan pemburu mata-mata melihat rencana Departemen Luar Negeri untuk mencabut visa beberapa mahasiswa Tiongkok sebagai sesuatu yang berat sebelah dan kontraproduktif.
FBI telah menghabiskan waktu puluhan tahun untuk menyelidiki beberapa profesor dan mahasiswa dari Tiongkok yang diduga menggunakan studi mereka untuk memata-matai negara asal mereka secara diam-diam. Ketika pemerintahan Trump mencoba upaya baru yang lebih agresif untuk menghentikan aktivitas tersebut, para ahli khawatir hal itu akan lebih banyak merugikan daripada menguntungkan penelitian Amerika.
Rencana yang diumumkan Departemen Luar Negeri minggu lalu untuk mencabut visa beberapa mahasiswa Tiongkok bahkan dianggap oleh beberapa mantan pemburu mata-mata sebagai upaya keras untuk memecahkan masalah yang lebih rumit.
“Jumlah keseluruhan mahasiswa Republik Rakyat Tiongkok yang benar-benar menimbulkan beberapa jenis risiko keamanan nasional relatif rendah dibandingkan dengan jumlah mahasiswa yang akan terus mendukung dan memajukan penelitian AS,” kata Greg Milonovich, mantan agen F.B.I. yang mengelola program aliansi akademis divisi kontraintelijen serta dewan penasihat pendidikan tinggi keamanan nasional.
Dalam mengumumkan langkah tersebut Rabu malam, Menteri Luar Negeri Marco Rubio memberikan sedikit hal spesifik, hanya menawarkan bahwa pemerintah AS akan “secara agresif mencabut visa bagi mahasiswa Tiongkok, termasuk mereka yang memiliki hubungan dengan Partai Komunis Tiongkok atau belajar di bidang-bidang penting.”
Bagaimana standar yang didefinisikan secara samar itu akan ditegakkan belum jelas, tetapi arahan tersebut merupakan bagian dari kampanye luas oleh pemerintahan Trump untuk memaksakan perubahan besar dalam pendidikan tinggi Amerika. Kampus-kampus, kata pejabat administrasi, sedang dalam krisis, dan hanya pemerintah federal yang bersedia dan mampu memperbaiki masalah tersebut.
Tiongkok pada hari Kamis mengecam keputusan tersebut, menyebutnya "diskriminatif."
Beijing mengecam keputusan AS yang menargetkan pelajar Tiongkok yang belajar di negara tersebut sebagai "diskriminatif", dan memperingatkan hal itu akan semakin merusak citra Amerika di panggung dunia.
"Keputusan AS ... secara serius merugikan hak dan kepentingan hukum mahasiswa internasional dari Tiongkok, dan mengganggu pertukaran antarmasyarakat antara kedua negara. Tiongkok dengan tegas menentangnya dan telah mengajukan protes kepada AS atas keputusan tersebut," kata juru bicara Kementerian Luar Negeri Tiongkok Mao Ning. "Langkah yang bermotif politik dan diskriminatif ini mengungkap kemunafikan AS atas kebebasan dan keterbukaan. Ini akan semakin merusak citra dan reputasi AS sendiri."
Pada hari Kamis, juru bicara Kementerian Luar Negeri Tiongkok Mao Ning mengatakan: “Keputusan yang tidak masuk akal untuk mencabut visa pelajar Tiongkok dengan dalih ideologi dan keamanan nasional sangat merugikan hak dan kepentingan sah pelajar Tiongkok dan mengganggu pertukaran di antara kita.
“Langkah yang dipolitisasi dan diskriminatif seperti itu mengungkap kebohongan AS tentang apa yang disebut kebebasan dan keterbukaannya dan hanya akan semakin merusak citranya di dunia dan reputasi nasional.”
“Kebijakan ini merupakan perlakuan tidak adil terhadap warga negara Tiongkok, yang akan meningkatkan ketegangan diplomatik antara Tiongkok dan Amerika Serikat, merusak suasana yang telah mereda setelah perundingan Jenewa [ketika mereka sepakat untuk menghentikan banyak tarif],” kata Sun Chenghao, seorang peneliti di Pusat Keamanan dan Strategi Internasional Universitas Tsinghua.
Sun mengatakan hal ini kemungkinan tidak hanya akan merusak kerja sama di bidang-bidang seperti sains dan teknologi, tetapi juga berdampak pada diplomasi antarmasyarakat dan pertukaran budaya, serta membatasi kesempatan warga Amerika untuk memahami budaya dan masyarakat Tiongkok.
“Kepercayaan bersama antara kedua negara akan melemah,” imbuhnya
