Two killed in shooting at US consulate in Jeddah

Today's headlines: Deloitte Asia Pacific tracks climate change risks and benefits, for India and China "great opportunities" from green transition; Pyongyang critic new South Korean unification minister; Israeli PM announces review of controversial justice reform; Taiwan vice-premier on official visit to Japan; A monk among victims of new air force air raid in Sagaing region; "Medic brigade" set up in Russia to send medical personnel to the front lines.

SAUDI ARABIA - USA
Two people were killed in the death toll of a shooting  late yesterday afternoon at the U.S. consulate in Jeddah reported Saudi news agency Spa. The victims are the assailant who got out of a car and fired and the Nepalese security guard who returned fire. The motive for the attack, which is being investigated by authorities, is currently unknown. 

SOUTH KOREA
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has chosen a conservative scholar, a critical voice on human rights in North Korea, as the new minister of Unification, a department that handles relations with Pyongyang. The appointment appears likely to exacerbate tensions with the North at a time when the leader in Seoul has repeatedly raised the issue of violations and abuses in the Kim regime. 

INDIA - CHINA
Hundreds of millions of workers in the Asia-Pacific vulnerable to climate change. 43% are employed in critical sectors such as agriculture, traditional energy, manufacturing, transportation, construction. For Deloitte Asia Pacific, however, the "green transition" could yield trillion by 2070 and 180 million new jobs by 2050. China and India to benefit the most. 

ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to revise the most controversial part of the justice reform plan, which has sparked protests in the country among magistrates and citizens. Among the critical points is the legislature's ability to overturn Supreme Court rulings. In the Wall Street Journal interview, he said granting more powers to the executive branch in appointing judges will be reviewed.

TAIWAN - JAPAN
Taiwan's vice-premier is on an official visit to Japan, a first in 29 years to strengthen economic ties between Tokyo and Taipei and discuss deals in the semiconductor industry. The delegation accompanying Cheng Wen-tsan includes officials and businessmen from the island. Meanwhile, Taiwan's exports fell in May for the ninth consecutive month.

MYANMAR
A monK was among 12 victims of the Burmese air force's new air raid in the Sagaing region, which hit a monastery. The target was the villages of Nyaung Kone and from Pi Tauk Kone, where militants dropped ordnance weighing hundreds of kilograms. Residents report six other people injured and treated in the area.

RUSSIA
A "doctors' brigade" is active in Russia, the nongovernmental association Krasnyj Krug ("The Red Circle"), founded by Aleksandr Beskrovnyj to round up volunteer doctors to send to the front lines in Ukraine, which has obtained state approval for 42 contracts worth nearly 100 million euros. The executives have U.S. residences and do not report on funding.

KYRGYZSTAN - KAZAKHSTAN
In Central Asia they are canceling all concerts by Russian singers, regardless of their views. In Kyrgyzstan, the performance by well-known 60-year-old pro-Putin author Grigory Leps, scheduled for July 8, has been suspended, and in Kazakhstan that of 25-year-old rapper Ališer Morgenstern, known for his anti-war stances, has been suspended, fearing "contradictory influences" on spectators.

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