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TOKYO: Asia’s factory activity shrank in May as soft demand in China and the impact of US tariffs took a heavy toll on companies, private surveys showed on Monday (Jun 2), highlighting the darkening outlook for the once fast-growing region. Trade-reliant Japan and South Korea continued to see manufacturing activity contract in May as US President Donald Trump’s automobile tariffs cloud the outlook for exports. Adding to the gloom, an official survey on Saturday showed China’s manufacturing activity shrank in May for a second month in a sign of weakness in the world’s second-largest economy. With many Asian economies making…

These are the key events on day 1,194 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here’s where things stand on Monday, June 2: Fighting Ukraine said it destroyed Russian bombers worth $7bn at airbases as far away as Siberia, in an attack that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Kyiv’s “longest-range operation”. Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari, reporting from Moscow, said the “simultaneous large-scale attack” was “launched from inside Russia” and targeted “Russian planes that have been carrying out attacks on Ukraine”. An official at Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service told the Reuters news agency that the operation involved hiding explosive-laden drones inside the roofs of…

White House Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett says he remains “very, very confident” that courts will support President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda.Hassett made the statement during a Sunday morning appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” telling host George Stephanopoulos that the White House still expects “Plan A” to work out.”And so we’re very thrilled. We are very confident that the judges would uphold this law. And so I think that that’s Plan A, and we’re very, very confident that Plan A is all we’re ever going to need,” Hassett said.”But if, for some reason, some judge were to say that it’s…

Harry Wilson and Tim Ryan remain chances to face the Crusaders in the Queensland Reds’ quarter-final in Christchurch.But Harry McLaughlin-Phillips is all but certain to be ruled out of Friday’s clash after a head knock suffered late in the side’s big defeat of Fijian Drua added to the side’s injury-riddled season.Incumbent Wallabies captain Wilson failed to finish in Saturday’s 52-7 win at Suncorp Stadium after suffering a knock to the same arm he fractured earlier this season.Wilson had scans on Sunday but was spotted at Ballymore on Monday and is yet to be ruled out of Friday’s sudden-death clash.Winger Ryan…

SEOUL: North Korea condemned a multilateral sanctions monitoring group’s recent report on ties with Russia as political and biased, saying its military cooperation with Moscow was a “legitimate exercise of the sovereign right”, state media said on Monday (Jun 2). A report by the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team, a group comprising 11 UN members, said North Korea enabled Russia to increase missile attacks against critical Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and supplied more than 20,000 containers of munitions. The MSMT is “a political tool operating according to the geopolitical interests of the West and, therefore, it has no justification to investigate the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Controversy struck the Women’s College World Series (WCWS) during an elimination game between UCLA and Tennessee on Sunday.Bruins first baseman Megan Grant came up to the plate with two outs and a runner on first and crushed a pitch off Volunteers pitcher Karlyn Pickens to tie the game, or so everyone thought. Tennessee bats are shown up before the game against UCLA in the Women’s College World Series, June 1, 2025, in Oklahoma City, Okla. (Brett Rojo/Imagn Images)Grant rounded third and headed for home to celebrate with her teammates. She didn’t appear…

Foreign ministers from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE had planned the visit to discuss Palestinian statehood and end to war on Gaza.Saudi Arabia has accused Israel of “extremism and rejection of peace” after it blocked a planned visit by Arab foreign ministers to the occupied West Bank. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud made the remarks during a joint news conference in Jordan’s capital, Amman, on Sunday with his counterparts from Jordan, Egypt, and Bahrain. “Israel’s refusal of the committee’s visit to the West Bank embodies and confirms its extremism and refusal of any…

A transgender teenager from Southern California competed in Saturday’s CIF track-and-field finals despite drawing national scrutiny and criticism from President Trump over her participation earlier in the week.AB Hernandez, a Jurupa Valley High School junior, competed in several events on Saturday after finishing as the top qualifier in the girls’ high jump, long jump and triple jump on Friday. “There’s no words to express how proud I am of her, despite her being targeted, harassed for all these months. She’s here, she’s successful, she did it,” said Hernandez’s mother Nereyda. “When you’re actually here the whole event, you actually see, it’s…

Liberal Tim Wilson said his win in the Victorian seat of Goldstein was because he looked to “reverse engineer” teal strategies that brought them success in 2022.Mr Wilson said his campaign focusing on a bright vision for the future appealed to the electorate and delivered one of the rare flips for the Liberal Party in the federal election.“I think we were speaking to people’s sense of hope and ambition … we weren’t playing small, we were going big. We talked very optimistically about a hopeful future,” Mr Wilson told RN Breakfast on Monday.Camera IconTim Wilson reveals what delivered his win…

The 72nd Miss World beauty pageant was hosted by Miss World 2016 Stephanie del Valle and Indian presenter Sachiin Kumbhar. India hosted the beauty competition last year as well. India’s Nandini Gupta exited after making it to the final 20. Six Indian women have won the title, including Reita Faria (1966), Aishwarya Rai (1994), Diana Hayden (1997), Yukta Mookhey (1999), Priyanka Chopra (2000) and Manushi Chillar (2017). The 21-year-old is currently studying at Thammasat University, taking up International Relations at its Faculty of Political Science. Chuangsri, whose family is in the hotel business in Phuket, speaks fluent English and Chinese.