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[H2] United States & Canada
[H2] Trump unveils new Air Force One gifted to him by Qatar
[H3] The use of an aircraft – worth hundreds of millions of dollars – from another country has raised ethical and security concerns.
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[IMG: US President Donald Trump exits the newly designated Air Force One presidential aircraft at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Friday. Photo: AP]
[H2] Europe
[H2] Poland’s president strips Ukraine’s Zelensky of top award
[H3] The row began after the Ukrainian leader named a military unit after a WWII insurgent army that took part in massacres against Poles.
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[IMG: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a meeting in Kyiv on Friday. Photo: EPA]
[H2] Europe
[H2] UK PM Starmer braces for cabinet showdown, with Burnham ready to pounce
[H3] Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has told the prime minister he should go, and more ministers could follow suit.
1 hour ago
[IMG: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with residents during a visit to a housing estate in north London on Friday. Photo: PA Wire/dpa]
[H2] Europe
[H2] Zelensky gives Belarus 1 week to remove equipment used in Russian attacks
[H3] ‘If he doesn’t do ‌it, we’ll do it,’ the president threatened, saying that a week should be enough time for Belarus leader Lukashenko.
2 hours ago
[IMG: A Ukraine serviceman launches an UAV for a patrol flight along the Ukraine-Belarus border on June 1. Photo: TNS]
[H2] Middle East
[H2] Iran floats insurance fees and asserts control over Hormuz
[H3] For many shippers and oil producers, the demand for mandatory insurance threatens to crystallise a worst-case scenario: tolls on the strait.
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[IMG: Vessels are seen anchored in Bandar Abbas along the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. Photo: ISNA via AFP]
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[H2] Diplomacy
[H2] Germany hews EU’s tough China line with call for ‘Plaza Accord’ talks on yuan
[H3] European Commission on a mission to craft tools to tackle what the bloc sees as China’s industrial excesses.
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[IMG: Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever (left) and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attend a European Council summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday. Photo: EPA]
[H2] Transport
[H2] Taxi fleet severs ties with driver who made mid-road stop to let passengers out
[H3] Video posted online shows two passengers with suitcases crossing lanes of traffic on Castle Peak Road to reach pavement.
4 hours ago
[IMG: The taxi passengers cross Castle Peak Road to reach the pavement after the cab stopped in the middle of traffic in Tsuen Wan. Photo: Facebook/hkcaml]
[H2] Russia & Central Asia
[H2] ‘This is the new reality’: Ukraine drone strike brings war to streets of Moscow
[H3] Kyiv has sent drones into Russia as far as the Urals in retaliation for Moscow bombing its cities daily.
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[IMG: Muscovites go about their daily life as black smoke rises from an oil refinery following a Ukranian drone attack on Thursday. Photo: AFP]
[H2] Southeast Asia
[H2] Indonesian police foil turtle-smuggling ring in Bali, rescue 21 live animals
[H3] One man has been charged under Indonesia’s wildlife protection laws, and faces up to 15 years’ jail and huge fines if found guilty.
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[IMG: A police officer inspects live green sea turtles seized from a trafficker in Denpasar, Bali, on Friday. Photo: Bali Regional Police/AP]
[H2] Science
[H2] Could China make a sea-skimming hypersonic missile a real nightmare for the US?
[H3] The country’s top science institute is launching a research programme into the technology that might one day underpin such a weapon.
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[IMG: China has deployed various hypersonic weapons, but these systems rely on high-altitude boost-glide trajectories or high-altitude cruise flight. Photo: CAS]
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[H2] Asia
[H2] Video | Indonesia hits pause on free meal programme
[H3] The 3-week break will save the government an estimated 3.4 trillion rupiah (US$191 million).
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[IMG: Students eat lunch on the first day of a free-meal programme at 12 State junior high school in Cimahi, West Java, on January 6, 2025. Indonesia launched an ambitious USD 4.3 billion free-meal programme on January 6 to combat stunted growth due to malnutrition, a key election promise of President Prabowo Subianto. (Photo by Timur MATAHARI / AFP)]
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[H2] Hong Kong Economy
[H2] Will hosting Hyrox World Championships add muscle to Hong Kong’s tourism trade?
[H3] By hosting next year’s event, city could lure thousands of athletes who spend more and stay longer than average tourist, experts say.
6 hours ago
[IMG: Hyrox Hong Kong at AsiaWorld-Expo in May. Only about 10,000 of the sport’s top athletes will be invited to Hong Kong for a chance to be a world champion. Photo: Jonathan Wong]
[H2] Tech
[H2] ‘We’re all in’: Alibaba’s Joe Tsai makes biggest AI push yet at VivaTech
[H3] Tsai lays out Alibaba’s AI playbook: invest across the stack, figure out the winners later.
19 Jun 2026 - 9:24PM
[IMG: Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai speaks at the VivaTech conference in Paris on June 18. Tsai said the company is investing across the AI value chain rather than betting on a single segment of the market. Photo: Getty Images]
[H2] Education
[H2] University town framework unlikely to be unveiled before five-year plan released
[H3] Government previously planned to publish Northern Metropolis University Town Development Conceptual Framework in the first half of year.
19 Jun 2026 - 9:08PM
[IMG: One of the sites for the proposed university town is in the Hung Shui Kiu/Ha Tsuen area. Photo: Elson Li]
[H2] Europe
[H2] 2 men jailed in UK over Starmer arson plot ordered by mystery Russian
[H3] The methods employed were ‘very similar’ to those known to be used by Russian spies acting in the UK, the counterterrorism head said.
19 Jun 2026 - 9:06PM
[IMG: Police officers stand guard outside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s private home in north London after it was damaged in a suspected arson attack on May 13, 2025. Photo: Reuters]
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[H2] People
[H2] Son hails Aung San Suu Kyi’s spirit in moving 81st birthday tribute
[H3] In a video, Kim Aris notes it is the sixth birthday in a row he has been unable to see his mother in person, as calls for her release continue.
19 Jun 2026 - 9:05PM
[IMG: Aung San Suu Kyi receives a birthday kiss from her son Kim Aris upon his arrival at Yangon International Airport, Myanmar, on June 19, 2011. Photo: EPA]
[H2] China Economy
[H2] China’s private-jet market finally pulling out of post-pandemic nosedive: source
[H3] Years-long liquidation of corporate fleets appears to be ending, aviation firm data shows, with a strategic pivot in who navigates the nation’s skies.
19 Jun 2026 - 9:00PM
[IMG: China remained the Asia-Pacific region’s largest individual business-jet market last year, with 243 planes, the Asian Sky Group found. Photo: Shutterstock]
[H2] World Opinion
[H2] Opinion | AI has been known to hallucinate. So have financial markets
[H3] Stock markets are booming on the assumption that US tech giants will deliver, but as liquidity becomes scarce, a reality check will ensue.
19 Jun 2026 - 8:30PM
[IMG: A sign displays outside Nasdaq on the day of SpaceX’s initial public offering in New York on June 12. Photo: Reuters]
[H2] Europe
[H2] Italian minister cancels US trip after Trump mocks Meloni
[H3] Trump said the Italian prime minister ‘wanted a picture with me so badly’ at the G7 summit and he agreed because he ‘felt sorry for her’.
19 Jun 2026 - 8:14PM
[IMG: US President Donald Trump (left) speaks to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the sidelines of the G7 summit on Wednesday. Photo: Italian Prime Ministry/Reuters]
[H2] Football
[H2] Iran to complain to Fifa over World Cup restrictions after request turned down
[H3] Iranian football federation says the team were denied permission to fly in from Mexico two days before the match against Belgium on Sunday.
19 Jun 2026 - 8:00PM
[IMG: Iran applauding their fans after the 2-2 draw against New Zealand in their opening match in Los Angeles on Monday. Photo: AFP]
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[H2] Policy
[H2] China plans to embed AI in consumer goods and services
[H3] Ministry of Commerce says goal is to promote AI’s entry into ‘millions of households and millions of shops’.
19 Jun 2026 - 8:00PM
[IMG: A robot introduces visitors to an embodied intelligence innovation industrial estate in Zhongguancun, in Beijing’s Haidian district, on Saturday. Photo: Xinhua]
[H2] Middle East
[H2] Iran waives Strait of Hormuz fees during 60-day peace negotiation period
[H3] A total of 25 commercial vessels crossed the newly reopened strait on Thursday, the highest number since mid-April.
19 Jun 2026 - 7:43PM
[IMG: Vessels are anchored the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Thursday. Photo: ISNA/AFP]
[H2] Today in Photos
[H2] Gallery | Competitors, revellers electrify Hong Kong’s shores for Dragon Boat Festival
19 Jun 2026 - 7:42PM
[IMG: People participate in dragon boat races held at Aberdeen Promenade. Photo: Elson Li]
[H2] Law and Crime
[H2] 9 arrested after HK$2.7 million in cash, goods stolen from Hong Kong farm
[H3] Senior inspector says eight men and a woman arrested over two burglaries at farm that took place on May 23 and last Friday.
19 Jun 2026 - 7:30PM
[IMG: Some of the items recovered by police. Photo: Facebook/HK Police]
[H2] World
[H2] Video | European Union and China in for period of tension
[H3] Leaders from the 27 European Union member states have met in Brussels to counter Beijing’s growing economic influence.
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[H2] Chinese culture
[H2] ‘Night of Horrors’: LA’s Chinese massacre of 1871 brought to fore in new book
[H3] Lisa See’s novel Daughters of the Sun and Moon revisits the terrible events that saw around 500 people attack the city’s Chinese residents.
19 Jun 2026 - 7:15PM
[IMG: American author Lisa See. Her Chinese great-grandfather, Fong See, settled in Los Angeles in 1897 around 26 years after the events of the Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871, in which roughly 500 white and Latino Angelenos attacked the city’s Chinese residents. Photo: Patricia Williams]
[H2] Africa
[H2] Vietnamese deported to South Sudan under Trump’s controversial scheme goes home
[H3] At least seven African nations have agreed to accept deportees who are not their own citizens as part of arrangements with the US.
19 Jun 2026 - 7:13PM
[IMG: Vietnamese deportee Tuan Phan, who spent nearly a year in South Sudan, speaks during a press conference before his departure from Juba International Airport on Friday. Photo: Reuters]
[H2] Society
[H2] ‘Bury me with them’: animal-lovers want same cemetery plots as their pets
[H3] Pet funeral service providers call for change in regulations, citing growing demand for such arrangements amid rapidly expanding market.
19 Jun 2026 - 7:00PM
[IMG: Hong Kong’s pet funeral service providers have urged the government to allow animal ashes to be placed alongside those of their owners. Photo: Sun Yeung]
[H2] Politics
[H2] Chinese embassy in UK denounces jailing of 2 Hongkongers for spying
[H3] Embassy slams ‘slander and suppression against Chinese citizens’ after Bill Yuen and Peter Wai sentenced on Thursday to eight and 10 years in prison.
19 Jun 2026 - 6:20PM4
[IMG: The Chinese embassy in the United Kingdom said the sentencing was “the result of the British side’s abuse of the law and manipulation of judicial proceedings”. Photo: AFP]
[H2] Southeast Asia
[H2] Deadly Philippines quake permanently alters Mindanao coastline
[H3] The tectonic forces that caused last week’s 7.8-magnitude quake also thrust chunks of the island’s coastline about two metres upwards.
19 Jun 2026 - 6:13PMvideocam
[IMG: A fishing boat is stranded after the seabed is thrust upwards by the June 8 earthquake in the Philippines. Photo: AFP]