Top 10 world news today: China on disengagement at LAC, China's row with New Zealand over Hong Kong and more

Top 10 world news today: China on disengagement at LAC, China's row with New Zealand over Hong Kong and more

Deployment amid COVID-19

Ladakh

China's foreign ministry said the two sides were preparing for a fifth round of talks between military commanders at an unspecified date.

Xi Jinping

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters had announced the suspension saying "New Zealand can no longer trust that Hong Kong's criminal justice system is sufficiently independent from China".

Meng

Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on Monday demanded the release of unredacted Canadian spy service documents.

Abe

South Korea's private botanic garden in the rural Pyeongchang county displayed statues that appears to depict Japan's PM Abe, kneeling and bowing to a seated "comfort woman"

P-8 A

The P-8A anti-submarine aircraft along with EP-3E reconnaissance plane reportedly entered the Taiwan Strait and flew near the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian.

Google

According to Google's estimate, underwater data cables are vital to global communications infrastructure as they carry out approximately 98 per cent of the world's data.

Sri Lanka elections

Over 16 million voters are registered to vote on August 5 to elect a 225-member parliament for a 5-year term.

Moderna

Moderna has received nearly $1 billion from the US government, which is helping to bankroll several vaccine candidates under its Operation Warp Speed program.

Coronavirus in Germany

Germany has fared better than many of its neighbours in suppressing the virus, but Wieler urged citizens not to squander the progress following a spike numbers in recent weeks.

Kim Jong Un

According to the Korean Central News Agency, Kim said that his country has tried to become “a nuclear state” with “an absolute might”

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