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This handout photo from the Royal Thai Government taken and released on July 3, 2025 shows Thailand’s acting Prime minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit (centre) posing for official photo with the cabinet ministers following a reshuffle, including Thailand’s new Culture minster Paetongtarn Shinawatra (4th left) and Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai (centre, left) at the Government House in Bangkok. — Royal Thai  Government handout pic via AFP

Thai opposition puts no-confidence vote on hold, vows to prevent political deadlock

Serge Hascoet (right), former creative director of Ubisoft, speaks with his lawyer as he arrives for the trial of French video game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment former executives for harassment and sexual assault at the courthouse in Bobigny, suburb of Paris, on June 2, 2025. A French court sentenced three former Ubisoft executives on July 2, 2025, to suspended prison terms for enabling a culture of sexual and psychological harassment at the gaming giant. Hascoet, 60, was given an 18-month suspended sentence for psychological harassment and complicity in sexual harassment. — AFP pic

‘Toxic culture’: Ex-Ubisoft bosses get suspended jail terms for workplace harassment

File picture of a rainbow flag, a symbol of the LGBTQ community, seen in front of the city skyline in Hong Kong on November 6, 2015. The Hong Kong government said on July 2, 2025 it will propose legislation to recognise some rights of same-sex couples whose marriages are registered abroad, to comply with a 2023 court judgment. — AFP pic

Hong Kong moves to grant limited rights to overseas same-sex couples

Protesters demonstrate against cartoonists of a satirical magazine following allegations that it had published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, outside Taksim mosque in Istanbul on July 1, 2025. — AFP pic

Turkish cartoon row deepens: ‘LeMan’ staff remanded over ‘disrespectful’ drawing

Palestinians react over bodies as they mourn doctor Marwan al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza Strip, his wife, his daughter and and his sister, who were killed in an Israeli strike on Wednesday, according to Gaza’s health ministry, at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, July 2, 2025. — Reuters pic

Gaza hospital chief, family killed in Israeli strike, say Palestinians

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi takes questions at a press conference during the ongoing National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 7, 2025. — AFP pic

China warns EU: Don’t turn differences into confrontation, says Wang Yi in Brussels

File picture of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen attending a press conference on the day of the European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium June 26, 2025. — Reuters pic

Von der Leyen to face no-confidence vote over Pfizer texts, Romania ‘interference’ claims

Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra reacts as she arrives at Government House in Bangkok, July 3, 2025. — Reuters pic

Thailand political crisis: Phumtham becomes acting PM as Paetongtarn suspended in ethics probe

People watch the sunset at Canggu Beach in Bali, Indonesia, December 2, 2021. — Reuters pic

Indonesia ferry disaster: Dozens missing, four confirmed dead in Java-Bali route sinking

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement during a visit to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, which was struck by an Iranian missile barrage, June 20, 2025. — Reuters pic

Netanyahu rejects ceasefire, vows to eliminate Hamas amid 60-day truce proposal

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, July 1, 2025. — Reuters pic

Trump softens tariff blow for Vietnam with new 20pc rate and trade deal

US Representative Madeline Dean (D-PA) holds a binder titled

Trump’s US$3.4t tax-and-spend bill faces resistance in divided House

In this aerial photo taken on May 24, 2025, growing stockpiles of nickel tower over the rice paddy of Moharen Tambiling's family in the village of Maasin, in Brooke's Point, Palawan province. — AFP pic

Philippines biodiversity hotspot pushes back as nickel mining threatens forests, Indigenous land

Palestinians gather to receive aid supplies in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. — Reuters pic

Hamas orders Gaza clan leader to surrender for treason, group calls ruling a ‘sitcom’

A firefighter stands near firetrucks following a wildfire during a heatwave, nearby the village of Kleinbahren, Germany July 2, 2025. — Reuters pic

Two die in Spain wildfire, two deaths in France from European heatwave

JDT Football Club chief executive officer Luis Garcia said the expansion of the Fifa Club World Cup format, which may see more Asian teams gives JDT an opportunity to eye a slot in the tournament through its Asian club ranking. — Bernama pic

‘Fly the Malaysian flag higher’: JDT eye Club World Cup spot, says Garcia