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  1. 01

    UNITED KINGDOM

    Burnham in.

    Newly-appointed Labour Party leader Andy Burnham will become Britain’s latest prime minister today (Monday), likely using his first speech to confront the UK’s cost-of-living squeeze and pledge some much-needed stability. (Independent)

  2. 02

    INDIA

    Cockroach protest advances.

    Thousands linked to the youth-led ‘Cockroach Janta Party’ are marching on parliament to demand the education minister’s resignation over an exam scandal, amid shock footage of police dragging a prominent hunger-striker to hospital. The striker’s wife has declared “it is not medical care, it is illegal detention”, while authorities have declared today’s protest illegal. (AP)

  3. 03

    CUBA

    Dissident artist exiled.

    Prominent Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has landed in Miami after regime authorities back home exiled him following a five-year jail stint over protest-linked performance art. (Miami Herald)

  4. 04

    PAKISTAN

    Say what now?

    Pakistani officials and outlets are voicing a bit of alarm after Japan — for the first time — joined India in explicitly calling out cross-border terrorism based in Pakistan. (Nikkei)

  5. 05

    HONG KONG

    US trade privileges restored?

    Beijing is hailing DC’s “positive step” in semi-restoring Hong Kong’s US trade privileges, which Trump 1.0 originally revoked amid a crackdown on the city’s mass pro-democracy demonstrations back in 2020. (NPR)

  6. 06

    EUROPEAN UNION

    Sanctions solidarity cracking?

    Various European countries (including Greece, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Portugal) are reportedly pushing for carve-outs to protect their corporates from the next planned round of sanctions against Russia. (FT $)

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