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(Ben)
We'll look at those issues in depth but first our global survey of headlines.
First up, in Asia,
Thailand's ruling military council has announced it is to lift a night-time curfew in three popular tourist areas.
Meanwhile, there is panic in the Pakistani city of Karachi of the exiled leader of the powerful MQM party, Altaf Hussain, was arrested in London for money-laundering
(Qin)
In Oceania,
Australian Special Forces troops are currently on standby to assist with the rescue of the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria.
Also, New Zealand's government is set to grant Samoa over 845 thousand U.S. dollars to help the Pacific island nation's tourism sector which contributes almost a quarter of its GDP.
(ZL)
Moving on to Africa,
In Nigeria, Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people in fresh attacks on villages in Borno state in the north of the country.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Export-Import Bank is to invest 1 billion dollars in Angola's electrical power and other infrastructures in the coming two years.
(Ben)
And in the Middle East,
Saudi Arabia has announced that 282 people are now confirmed to have been killed by the Mers virus - almost 100 more than initially thought.
Over in northern Yemen, at least 120 people have died in the latest flare-up in the conflict between government forces and Zaidi Shia rebels.
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Looking to Latin America,
The Brazilian government is offering federal police officers a nearly 16 percent pay rise to avert a strike during the forthcoming football World Cup.
Plus, Mexico has published new sentencing guidelines that are set to double prison sentences for kidnapping of all kinds.
(Ben)
And in Europe,
Figures from EU statistics office Eurostat show inflation across the Eurozone has fallen to 0.5 percent in May - well below the European Central Bank's 2 percent target.
In Brussels, the European Commission has called on the UK to raise taxes on higher value properties, build more houses and to adjust the Help to Buy scheme.
(QD)
And finally in North America,
In the United States, Seattle city council has voted unanimously to raise the city's minimum wage to the highest level of any major US city – 15 dollars per hour, twice the national minimum.
Plus two 12-year-old girls in the US state of Wisconsin have been accused of stabbing a classmate in order to please an online fictional character known as Slenderman.
(Ben) That's the global headlines Survey. Now back to the top stories of the day. Zeng Liang starts us off.
