Australia awards South Korea's Hanwha $4.7 bln defence contract (www.reuters.com)
On Second Anniversary of 'Presidential Coup,' Tunisians Resolve to Continue Resistance (peoplesdispatch.org)
Soldiers Mutiny in U.S.-Allied Niger (theintercept.com)
The South Korean POWs left to plot escape from the North (www.bbc.co.uk)
Blinken says door open for New Zealand to engage on AUKUS (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine MP under criminal investigation over Maldives holiday (www.bbc.co.uk)
New Chinese foreign minister Wang talks Ukraine in Turkey on first trip (www.reuters.com)
UK candidate Jim Skea elected as new leader of UN climate science body (www.politico.eu)
Exclusive: UK probes Novo's Ozempic, weight-loss drug Saxenda over suicidal, self-harming thoughts (www.reuters.com)
Russian court jails cyber security executive for 14 years in treason case (www.reuters.com)
Vatican prosecutor seeks seven-year sentence for cardinal (www.reuters.com)
Niger guards blockade president's palace - reports (www.bbc.co.uk)
First lady Jill Biden celebrates US' re-entry into UNESCO in Paris (www.euronews.com)
EU probes border agency's rescue role after migrant shipwreck killed hundreds (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine's top diplomat in Liberia on third wartime tour of Africa (www.reuters.com)
Moldova to cut number of Russian diplomats over 'hostile actions' (www.reuters.com)
Poland files EU complaint over illegal waste imports from Germany (www.reuters.com)
Sixty-six years after returning to Russia, mathematician is an exile once more (www.reuters.com)
'A blessing': Wounded soldiers help US scientists to save coral reefs (www.euronews.com)
Archaeologists discover oldest evidence of "curry" outside of India (www.euronews.com)
Here We Go Again: Protests, Police Platitudes, & Perturbed Politicians Over Cops' Racism & Misogynoir in Croydon (www.thecanary.co)
Russia-Africa Summit May Discuss Corridor to Transport Grain & Fertilizers (peoplesdispatch.org)
UN rights body conduct hearings on showbiz sexual abuse in Japan - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A delegation of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday spoke with former members of Japan's top male talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc. who accused its late founder of sexual abuse, interviewees said.