EU-Korea Summit, China summons Japanese Ambassador, Indian Prime Minister visits Australia

The World & Vietnam Newspaper highlights some notable world news this morning, May 23.

Asia

YONHAP. ​​South Korea and the EU agreed to promote their security partnership and pledged to strengthen joint cooperation in addressing climate, health and digital issues.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel chair the EU-South Korea Summit in Seoul on May 22. (Source: DW)

KOREA TIMES. South Korea will strengthen quarantine measures on beef imported from the United States, after the United States reported a case of bovine encephalopathy (mad cow disease).

KYODO. China summoned Japanese Ambassador to China Hideo Tarumi to protest G7 statements on Taiwan and Beijing-related issues raised at the Hiroshima Summit.

YOMIURI. The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio's cabinet exceeded 50% for the first time in eight months, while the disapproval rating stood at 33%, down from 37% in a survey five weeks ago.

THE STAR. The Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition 2023 from May 23-27 is expected to yield contracts worth a total of RM18 billion ( US$4 billion ), according to Malaysian Defense Minister Mohamad Hasan.

KHMER TIMES. Cambodian citizens living in other countries can have easier access to services related to civil registration and identification thanks to the newly approved draft Law on Civil Registration, Statistics and Identification.

BANGKOK POST. The number of Covid-19 inpatients in Thailand continued to rise and the death rate also increased over the past week, as the new academic year began and schools reopened.

ANTARA. Indonesian police say a Canadian wanted by Interpol for forging documents and defrauding hundreds of investors in Canada has been arrested on the island of Bali.

TEMPO. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Indonesia from May 23-24 at the invitation of President Joko Widodo to promote bilateral partnership.

JORDAN TIMES. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani and Jordanian Interior Minister Mazen Faraya, who are visiting Baghdad, agreed to boost bilateral security cooperation, especially in the field of controlling drug trafficking.

Europe

AP. After winning the election on May 21, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that he would not form a coalition government, hoping that the second round of voting could take place on June 25.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed that Greece needs a strong and stable government with a four-year term, and that the sooner this issue is resolved, the better for the country. (Source: Bloomberg)

BLOOMBERG. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Facebook's parent company Meta a record €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) for sending Facebook user data in the EU to servers in the US.

TASS. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that Yerevan is ready to recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh region as part of Azerbaijan's territory on condition that Baku ensures the security and rights of ethnic Armenians living in the region.

DW. German prosecutors have charged four former executives of a company with selling illegal software to Turkey's secret services to spy on the country's opposition.

AFP. Austria's foreign ministry said it had summoned the Hungarian ambassador after Budapest announced plans to release hundreds of human traffickers from prison due to high costs.

RITZAU. Denmark wants to host a summit in July to discuss efforts to find peace between Ukraine and Russia, according to Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen.

EURACTIV. The Italian government is committed to reforming its education and training system because young people currently do not have the skills that the country's companies need, making recruitment more difficult.

AFP. With the eighth round of EU sanctions against Iran, the total number of Iranian individuals, entities and agencies sanctioned by the EU has reached around 160.

REUTERS. The 76th World Health Assembly ( WHA ) opened in Geneva, Switzerland, focusing on "saving lives and improving health for all".

SKY NEWS. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni inspects flood-hit areas in the Emilia-Romagna region, shortly after returning early from the G7 Summit in Japan.

Ms Meloni is scheduled to hold a cabinet meeting today, May 23, to decide on the provision of emergency funds to the flood-hit area. (Source: Adnkronos)

America

PRENSA LATINA. Meeting with Cuban Tourism Minister Juan Garcia Granda in Havana, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko expressed his desire to make Russia the main market for Cuban tourism with about 500,000 visitors per year.

CIBERCUBA. Cuban Border Guards have seized 17 containers containing 340.7 kg of marijuana in an international anti-drug operation in coordination with the US Coast Guard.

EL PAIS. Colombian President Gustavo Petro has suspended a ceasefire with leftist rebels in four hot-spot regions after rebels killed four indigenous children.

AP. At least 20 people were killed in a fire at a dormitory at Mahdia Secondary School in the central province of Guyana, the cause of which is under investigation.

Africa

EGYPT TODAY. The Egyptian government has called on its citizens to gather at Dongola airport on May 23 for evacuation by air, as violence continues in Sudan.

NEWS24. A cholera outbreak in Gauteng province - home to the administrative capital Pretoria and South Africa's largest city Johannesburg - has left 10 people dead, South African authorities have urged people to be "more cautious".

Xinhua News Agency. The Armed Forces of Mali (FAMa) killed 167 terrorists in operations from April 8 to May 20, but the Malian army lost nine soldiers and seven vehicles destroyed or lost.

AFRICA NEWS. Thirteen people have been killed in attacks by Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels on several villages in Irumu territory, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Oceania

REUTERS. The United States and Papua New Guinea have signed a new defense cooperation agreement that will allow US forces access to the island nation's ports and airports.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Papua New Guinea Defense Minister Win Bakri Daki at the signing ceremony of a defense cooperation agreement in Port Moresby on May 22. (Source: Twitter)

ABC. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Sydney, Australia - the final stop on his Asia-Pacific tour, aiming to assert India's role as a regional power in the face of China's growing influence.

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