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President Joe Biden hosted Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan for a State Dinner. Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times |
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Summit: President Biden met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines at the White House. The meeting was an effort to send a blunt message to China — stop harassing Philippine ships in the South China Sea.
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South Korea: The elections were disastrous for President Yoon Suk Yeol. He is the first president in decades to face an opposition-controlled Parliament for his entire tenure.
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Climate: China and India are still building coal-fired power plants, which contributed to an increase in the global capacity to generate power from coal last year.
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Vietnam: A real estate tycoon was sentenced to death for her role in a fraud case, part of the Communist Party’s crackdown on corruption.
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Julian Assange: President Biden said that the U.S. was considering dropping its prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder who has been jailed in London.
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Aleksei Navalny: The Russian dissident was writing a memoir before he died in prison at 47. It will be published this fall.
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Baseball: Prosecutors say that Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter stole $16 million from him to feed his gambling addiction.
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Global Health
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Cholera: Companies are racing to replenish the global vaccine stockpile. But outbreaks are spreading, and the effort will take years.
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Dengue: A huge outbreak is sweeping Latin America, and the need for new vaccines is growing.
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