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Today's headlines: G7 outlines alternative plan to China's Belt and Road; At least 37 million Japanese will have to ration electricity use; 203 die in Hindu Char Dham yatra pilgrimage since May; Gay Pride blocked in Istanbul; Russia sends minors to fight in Ukraine.

Today's headlines: a U.N. investigation determines that Israeli security forces killed Shireen Abu Aqla; Afghanistan lacks medicine for earthquake survivors, yesterday five more victims of aftershocks; Vietnamese church organizes a "National Synodal Cup 2022-23" soccer match; Siberia floods destroyed two bridges, isolated villages.

Today's headlines: UN fears cholera outbreak in Afghanistan following quake; Court exonerates Narendra Modi from the 2002 Gujarat riots; Thailand drops final restrictions against covid; Russian filmmaker expected in Milan, Italy, arrested.

Today'sheadlines: Laos risks following Sri Lanka, where a wealthy tycoon has been appointed finance minister; in China, two human rights lawyers tried in court; South Korea will send a billion in aid to Afghanistan; Malaysia's palm oil crisis deepens.

Today's headlines: the number of Chinese seeking asylum abroad continues to rise since 2012; Indonesia expells a Japanese man accused of defrauding the government; Kyrgyz people may find employment in agricultural work in South Korea; Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman visits Jordan.

Today's headlines: flood emergency continues in Bangladesh and southern China; Cambodia ignores a Burmese civil society appeal against the presence of generals at the Asean summit; Thailand accuses a former MP of lese majesty; Hong Kong's historic Jumbo floating restaurant sinks.

Today's headlines: support wanes for Japan's Kishida government; Sara Duterte is sworn in; the U.S. calls for the release of an environmental lawyer in Vietnam; China conducts successful missile interception test; cinemas in Russia will be forced to close.

Today's news: Kabul’s last Sikh temple is attacked; in India, references to the 2002 clashes between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat when Modi was chief minister were removed from history textbooks “to rationalise” their content; Turkish President Erdogan changes the name of Turkish Airlines, raising concerns in business circles.

Today's headlines: Nepal must move base camp on Mount Everest due to melting glaciers; covid-19 and war fuel illegal migration of Burmese to Thailand; Beijing launches campaign to "nationalise" public schools; Taliban says women without headscarves "to look like animals"; in Armenia, protests against PM over policy of dialogue with Azerbaijan.

Today's headlines: climate change behind the spike in Dengue cases in Singapore; in North Korea, Covid is joined by an 'unspecified' intestinal epidemic; Israel to reopen Taba crossing with Egypt on 3 July; 20 times more Afghan child workers in Iran under Taliban; Western sanctions lead to lack of super-technological lifts for skyscrapers in Russia.

Today's headlines: the card identifying fans at the World Cup does not include Taiwan, only China; Colombo approves the four-day working week in the public sector to combat economic crisis; Saudi appeals court upholds death sentence on defendant who was a minor at the time of the crime; Phnom Penh sentences Cambodian Christian lawyer with US passport to six years for treason; Naval'nyj transferred to unknown location.

Today's headlines: Asian companies' profits drop for the first time in two years; Hong Kong seeks students to be quarantined to celebrate Covid-free July 1; Northern Thai poultry farm replaces antibiotics and medicine with cannabis; Pakistan prepares for former President Musharraf's return; dozens of activists and pacifists arrested on Russia Day.