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China blocks shopping app after post on Tiananmen anniversary

Agence France-Presse
Jun 07 08:07 PM

A Chinese shopping app has been blocked on social media after a post on the anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989, as Beijing's censorship kicked into gear around the sensitive date. Read more »

Rohingya on Bangladesh island feel trapped, fear monsoons

Agence France-Presse
Jun 07 07:59 PM

Rohingya refugees kept on a Bangladesh island fear they will be exposed to torrid conditions during the upcoming monsoon season, and are struggling with "inadequate" health and education facilities, a Human Rights Watch report said Monday. Read more »

More than 3.7 million dead, 173 million infected with COVID-19 worldwide

Agence France-Presse
Jun 07 07:16 PM

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3,731,297 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1000 GMT (6 p.m. Philippine time) on Monday. Read more »

China vents anger at US Senators' visit to Taiwan

Agence France-Presse
Jun 07 07:09 PM

China expressed fury over US senators visiting Taiwan to donate coronavirus vaccines, saying it could embolden "separatist forces" on the island. Read more »

Cure for summertime blues: Europe gears up for tourists

Agence France-Presse
Jun 07 06:55 PM

European tourism has had its worst time in living memory as coronavirus lockdowns, curfews and hotel and restaurant closures have threatened the industry's livelihood and frustrated travelers eager for a change of scenery. Read more »

Myanmar's Suu Kyi to go on trial next week

Agence France-Presse
Jun 07 06:40 PM

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will go on trial next week, her lawyer said Monday, with the Nobel laureate facing an eclectic raft of charges, from possessing unlicensed walkie-talkies to flouting coronavirus restrictions during elections last year. Read more »

Taiwan tech sector hit by coronavirus outbreak

Agence France-Presse
Jun 07 06:33 PM

A leading Taiwanese chip testing and packaging company said Monday that all its migrant employees have been suspended from working for around two weeks to contain a coronavirus outbreak. Read more »

Trial in MH17 crash to start hearing evidence

Danny Kemp, Agence France-Presse
Jun 07 04:47 PM

The trial formally began in March 2020 but has so far been dealing with legal arguments, mainly about the admissibility of evidence in the crash in which 298 passengers and crew were killed. Read more »

Thailand starts long awaited COVID-19 vaccination drive

Reuters
Jun 07 04:37 PM

Thailand kicked off a long-awaited mass vaccination campaign on Monday as the country battles its third and worst wave of the coronavirus epidemic. Read more »

At least 30 killed in Pakistan train crash

Agence France-Presse
Jun 07 04:11 PM | Updated Jun 07 07:55 PM

(UPDATED) At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured Monday when a packed Pakistani inter-city train ploughed into another express that had derailed just minutes earlier, officials said. Read more »

Australian police free entangled young whale off east coast

Reuters
Jun 07 03:59 PM

Australian marine police cut free a juvenile humpback whale entrapped in fishing ropes and buoys off the coast of Sydney late on Sunday. Read more »

COVID-19 crisis makes electricity too costly for millions in Africa, Asia

Beh Lih Yi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Jun 07 01:10 PM

The economic toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has left more than 25 million people in Africa and Asia unable to afford electricity, threatening a global goal to provide power to everyone by 2030, international agencies warned on Monday. Read more »

'Zombie eye' inimbento para sa mga naglalakad nang nakatutok sa cellphone

ABS-CBN News
Jun 07 07:02 AM

Inimbento ng isang South Korean industrial engineer ang 'zombie eye' para sa mga taong hindi matigil na tumigngin sa kanilang smartphones kahit naglalakad. Read more »

Meghan gives birth to baby girl called Lilibet Diana

Omar Younis and Michael Holden
Jun 07 12:22 AM | Updated Jun 07 06:58 AM

SANTA BARBARA, Calif./LONDON (2nd UPDATE) - Meghan, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to her second child, a girl, whom she and husband Prince Harry have named after Queen Elizabeth and his late mother Princess Diana. Read more »

Mexicans vote in midterm elections seen as referendum on president

Anthony Esposito, Reuters
Jun 06 10:54 PM

MEXICO CITY -- Mexicans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote for a new lower house of Congress, state governors and local lawmakers, in a race seen as a referendum on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's policies and efforts to shake up Mexico's institutions.   Read more »

Peruvians vote to elect president, divided by class, geography

Marco Aquino and Marcelo Rochabrun, Reuters
Jun 06 10:52 PM

Peruvians began voting to pick a president on Sunday in an election that has bitterly divided them by class and geography, with urban and higher-income citizens preferring right-wing Keiko Fujimori while the rural poor support leftist political novice Pedro Castillo. Read more »

Pope Francis leads Solemnity of Body and Blood of Christ

Vincenzo Pinto, AFP
Jun 06 08:24 PM

Pope Francis speaks from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter's square in the Vatican during the weekly Angelus prayer on Sunday. Read more »

Pope Francis calls for reconciliation, healing over Canada school discovery

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Jun 06 08:16 PM

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis said on Sunday that he was pained by the discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former Catholic school for indigenous students in Canada and called for respect of the rights and cultures of native peoples. Read more »

Taiwan to quarantine workers to control COVID spike at tech firm

Reuters
Jun 06 06:15 PM

TAIPEI -- All foreign workers at a plant of major Taiwanese chip packager King Yuan Electronics in Taiwan's northern city of Miaoli will be quarantined as health workers try to stop an outbreak of COVID-19 there, the government said on Sunday. Read more »

Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine gains China approval for emergency use in children, adolescents

Reuters
Jun 06 12:52 PM

China has approved emergency use of Sinovac Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine in people aged between three and 17, its chairman Yin Weidong told state TV late on Friday. Read more »

US senators in Taiwan and announce vaccine donation

Agence France-Presse
Jun 06 12:25 PM

A bipartisan delegation of three United States senators landed in Taiwan on Sunday and announced that Washington would donate 750,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to its ally. Read more »

Passenger tries to break into cockpit on US flight

Agence France-Presse
Jun 06 09:14 AM

A passenger on a US airplane tried to smash his way into the cockpit until another traveler and members of the air crew tackled him and pinned him down, witnesses said. Read more »

EXPLAINER: What is a global minimum tax and what will it mean?

Leigh Thomas and David Lawder, Reuters
Jun 06 07:52 AM

Such a deal aims to end what US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called a "30-year race to the bottom on corporate tax rates" as countries compete to lure multinationals.   Read more »

Trump returning to the stage as he flirts with 2024 run

Elodie Cuzin, Agence France-Presse
Jun 06 07:47 AM | Updated Jun 06 07:58 AM

Banished from social networks but no less influential among the Republican faithful, Donald Trump was set to return to the stage Saturday for his first speech in months as he flirts ever more openly with a new presidential run in 2024.   Read more »

Delhi, Mumbai ease lockdown, as India COVID numbers fall

Agence France-Presse
Jun 05 11:11 PM

At least 344,082 people in India have lost their lives to the coronavirus, which is now surging in rural areas.  Read more »