Key words : US supreme court overturned abortion
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The US Supreme Court has overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established abortion as a woman's constitutional right.
On Friday, six out of nine justices were in favor of upholding a Mississippi law that bans the procedure after 15 weeks.
Republican former President Donald Trump appointed three justices during his four-year term, building a 6-3 conservative majority.
The court said the Constitution does not grant the right to abortion, and that the authority to regulate the procedure should be returned to the people and their elected representatives.
A pro-choice organization says 26 of the country's 50 states, mainly in the south and Midwest, are now likely to ban or restrict abortions.
Americans have long been split on the issue. Liberals consider abortion a woman's right, but Christian conservatives oppose it.
Some observers say social divisions are likely to deepen in the run-up to the November midterm elections.
Key words : olympic new event
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The International Olympic Committee says it will add a range of new events to the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy, with the aim of achieving a greater gender balance among participants.
The IOC Executive Board made the decision at an online discussion on Friday.
New events for the Milano Cortina Games program will include ski jumping women's large hill individual, freestyle skiing dual moguls for men and women, a skeleton mixed team event and a women's doubles luge event.
IOC President Thomas Bach said, "We have made significant progress to close the gender gap at the Olympic Winter Games."
He also said, "We are committed to continuing to advance gender equality, and Milano Cortina will be another key milestone in this endeavour."
The IOC also discussed whether to continue the Nordic combined, a winter sport with no women's competitions, and which attracts relatively few spectators. Medalists at the past three Games have only come from four countries.
The committee decided to retain the event for the 2026 Games, considering that athletes have already been preparing for many years.
Key words : xi one billion
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Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will invest an additional one billion dollars into a fund to support developing countries.
He made the announcement on Friday at an expanded meeting of the five-nation group known as BRICS. The countries are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Chinese media say the leaders of 13 emerging and developing countries, including Indonesia, Iran and Egypt, attended the online meeting hosted by China.
Xi said Beijing will add one billion dollars to the existing 3 billion dollars for the fund established by China to promote cooperation among developing nations.
In an apparent attack on Western sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, Xi was quoted by China's Foreign Ministry as saying certain nations are imposing "maximum sanctions, and deliberately creating division and confrontation".
Xi added that emerging and developing nations are more resolved to seek strength through unity, as the North-South gap keeps widening.
Xi also said China will cooperate in increasing production capacity for grain and other crops. The pledge comes amid growing concerns about a global food crisis due to the Russian blockade of Ukrainian exports.
Xi appeared to be touting Beijing's cooperation with developing countries ahead of a series of summits of Western nations, including a G7 summit scheduled to start on Sunday.
Key words : european commission
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The European Commission will draw up a common plan by next month to curb gas demand across the bloc as Russia tightens natural gas supplies.
EU leaders held a two-day summit in Brussels through Friday to discuss how to secure energy supplies and deal with soaring prices.
In a news conference after the meeting, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Russia had halted or reduced deliveries of natural gas to 12 member states.
She said her agency has reviewed all countries' contingency plans to ensure they are prepared for further supply restrictions.
She said her agency is working with industry and member states on a Europe-wide plan and will present it to EU leaders in July.
European nations have been boosting their gas storage capacities ahead of the winter months when demand for heating spikes. But concerns are growing that enough cannot be stored to offset reduced supplies from Russia.
Germany has raised its national gas emergency plan to the second stage and called on citizens and businesses to cooperate in saving energy.
Key words : taiwan monkeypox
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Taiwan's health authority says it confirmed its first case of monkeypox on Friday.
Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control says a man in his 20s flew back from Germany on June 16, and visited a medical institution after developing symptoms, including a fever and a rash, on Monday.
Health officials determined that 19 people, including two family members and 10 medical workers, had close contact with him. Officials will monitor the health condition of the close contacts until July 13.
The CDC is calling on people who develop possible symptoms of the disease after returning from overseas to promptly visit a medical institution to be checked.
Key words : 29 countries
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An emergency committee of the World Health Organization has met to discuss whether the current outbreak of monkeypox constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
Experts from around the world gathered on Thursday to consider the latest information about the disease.
The WHO said Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will study the results of the discussions and decide within a few days whether to declare the monkeypox outbreak an emergency.
The WHO Regional Office for Europe said 2,746 cases of monkeypox had been confirmed in 29 countries and territories, mainly in Europe, as of Tuesday.
The WHO currently lists outbreaks of polio and COVID-19 as such emergencies.
Key words : north anti-us
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People in North Korea staged a series of anti-US rallies in the lead-up to Saturday, which marks 72 years since the start of the Korean War. It is the first time in five years that the North has reported that such rallies have taken place.
The war broke out on June 25, 1950. Pyongyang designates the occasion as the day of the struggle against the United States.
The Saturday edition of the ruling party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, ran an editorial titled "The spirit of protecting the homeland is a weapon of victory."
The newspaper also reported on anti-US rallies that took place in the capital, Pyongyang, on Thursday and Friday.
In Friday's demonstration, university students and other participants accused the United States of continuing war drills to invade North Korea. They went on to say that if the United States blows the clouds of war onto their homeland, they will mercilessly conquer it.
The anti-US rallies appear to be the first since 2018, when leaders of the two countries held their first-ever summit. Since then, Pyongyang has taken a more hostile stance toward Washington as a stand-off between the two over Pyongyang's nuclear program has intensified.
The United States has also been working with Japan and South Korea to strengthen their deterrence capabilities.
Earlier this year, North Korea resumed intercontinental ballistic missiles launches. It has also been accelerating its nuclear and missile development programs.
Key words : search for survivors
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The search for survivors in eastern Afghanistan following Wednesday's deadly earthquake is being severely impacted by damage to infrastructure.
The magnitude 5.9 quake has killed more than 1,000 people and injured over 1,600 in the provinces of Khost and Paktika.
Afghanistan's health ministry says an aftershock on Friday took five more lives in Paktika.
The 72-hour period deemed critical for survival has now passed.
Officials in Khost told NHK that they have searched 300 buildings. But heavy machinery cannot be used due to damaged roads.
The Taliban are now trying to coordinate with UN agencies and non-governmental organizations to provide enough relief aid.
The Japanese government is sending blankets, water tanks and other emergency supplies to the affected area.
Key words : shrine
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Baby deer are drawing visitors to Kashima Shrine in Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
Deer at the shrine are said to be messengers of gods, and are carefully taken care of. Births of new deer peak around this time. Two fawns were born this year, on June 6 and 9.
Visitors to the shrine viewed the Bambi-like fawns napping in the sun or hiding behind trees. Some took pictures while others fed the adult deer.
A man in his 60s from Saitama City who was seeing the fawns for the first time said they were very cute. He said they will grow up and make everyone who sees them happy.
Kashima shrine's name includes the character for deer in Chinese characters, and its grounds are home to about 30 Japanese deer.
A junior priest at the shrine, Okazawa Minoru, said the fawns were still at a delicate stage and asked visitors to quietly enjoy watching them grow.
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