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Today's news: new economic cooperation agreements between Italy and China; Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, flights to and from Beirut suspended; Myanmar, control of ethnic militias in Shan State strengthens; In Turkmenistan, difficulties in obtaining credit.

Today's news: 180,000 Gazans flee Khan Younis bombardment; Pakistan reverses decision to stop issuing passports to asylum seekers abroad; The Philippines resupplies its troops after the agreement with China in the South China Sea; 19th century Tibetan monastery is demolished to make way for a dam.

Today's news: Jimmy Lai's court deposition in Hong Kong postponed for another four months; Hamas leader in the West Bank dead after eight months in Israeli custody; Individual Indian states will also be able to impose their own royalties on mining activities; Brazil apologises to Japan for persecution of immigrants after World War II; In Moscow, ‘Europe Square’ was renamed ‘Eurasia Square’.

Today's news: Netanyahu call for Israel's military presence in Gaza after the war; Philippine ship capsizes, extensive oil spill off Bataan; Cambodian court fines Candlelight Party chairman for criticism of state of democracy under Hun Manet; Japan will introduce 30 km/h zones in many population centres in 2026.

Today's news: Plane crashes on take-off in Kathmandu; Ukrainian foreign minister in Beijing in the first visit of a Kiev government memebro since the Russian invasion; 150,000 Palestinians have fled Khan Younis since Monday; One of Pyongyang's rubbish-laden balloons lands in front of Seoul's presidential palace.

Today's news: United Arab Emirates also hands out harsh prison sentences for Bangladeshi protesters; Netanyahu in Washington, families of American hostages: no dialogue without hostage liberation; Russia and China to open a new border crossing; Singapore world's safest city for tourists.

Today's news: India's West Bengal state ready to take in people fleeing Bangladesh shaken by clashes. New Israeli bombings in Khan Younis on the eve of Netanyahu's trip to the US. Pacific islands ask Japan to act on pollution caused by wrecks of ships sunk in World War II. Vatican representative in Vietnam sends condolences on the death of Nguyen Phu Trong.

Today's headlines: International Court of Justice calls West Bank settlements "unlawful", while Netanyahu claims that it is the land of the Jewish people. A study reveals that Indian women were much more affected than men by COVID-19 in 2020. Japanese gymnast pulls out of the Olympics because she was caught smoking and drinking, which are banned under Japanese law for people under 20. In Luhansk, the monuments to the victims of the Holodomor, the famine caused by Stalin, have been removed.

Today's news: at least 32 killed in student protest in Bangladesh, state TV set on fire; Police investigate cyanide used in the murder-suicide of six Vietnamese men in a Bangkok hotel; Consensus reached between Tokyo and Pacific Island leaders on releasing Fukushima waters into the ocean; Monsoons in Nepal caused 125 deaths in little over a month.

Today's news: Beijing breaks off talks with the US on nuclear arms control in Taiwan. The Knesset rejects the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry on 7 October, satisfied Netanyahu. Japanese PM apologised to victims of forced sterilisation. Indian economy has the fastest growth rate among emerging nations.

Today's news: Police in Laos rescue 17 girls (as young as 10) from sex slavery for Chinese tourists; UN report denounces "institutionalized" forced labor in North Korea; Six Vietnamese men poisoned in a Bangkok hotel room; Recruitment among ultra-Orthodox begins next week, clashes in Tel Aviv; Hindu group offers prayer for Trump's "health" after attack.

Today's news: three civilians killed in an Israeli raid in southern Lebanon, in Gaza the attack on the UN school exceeds 20 dead; Talks between Palestinian factions on 20 and 21 July in China; High North Korean official in Cuba defects and flees to South Korea; Bangkok court postpones extradition hearing in Vietnam for activist Montagnard Y Quynh Bdap.