Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing is willing to work with Cambodia’s new government to build to “high-quality” ties as Prime Minister Hun Sen prepares to hand the reins to his son.
Seven people were killed by Russian shelling in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Sunday, including an infant and a 12-year-old boy, said Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. Russian shells hit two villages on the sea coast between the Dnipro and Pivdennyi Buh rivers. Some areas of Kherson are without electricity after a series of Russian attacks that damaged power lines.
All new public lavatories in the UK will need to include single-sex male and female toilets under plans announced by the Minister for Women and Equalities, the Telegraph reported.
Ukraine’s troops continue counteroffensive operations in at least two sectors and reportedly made “tactically significant advances” on Saturday along the administrative border between Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts, said the Institute for the Study of War, citing Ukrainian sources. Heavy fighting is underway for control of Urozhaine, a strategically important village that could open up a pathway to Mariupol, the Azov Sea coastal city largely laid to waste by Russia last year.
Malaysia’s ruling coalition held on to three of six states contested in provincial elections Saturday, providing Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim with breathing space nine months into his mandate.
New Zealand’s ruling Labour Party said it will exempt fruit and vegetables from the Goods and Services Tax if it wins a third term at elections in October.
Brazil’s Federal Police asked the Supreme Court to release Jair Bolsonaro’s private banking and tax records as part of an investigation into the attempted sale of some gifts the former president received when he was in office, O Globo newspaper reported.
Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis faced off with dueling events at Iowa’s state fair, taking their fight for the presidential nomination to the traditional political jamboree while avoiding a direct confrontation.
The running mate of Ecuador’s assassinated presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio will seek to stand in place of him in next weekend’s election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to present a 2020 elections interference case against former President Donald Trump and others to a grand jury in Georgia early next week, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
