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In this Friday, July 8, 2016 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese missile frigate Yuncheng launches an anti-ship missile during a military exercise in the waters near south China's Hainan Island and Paracel Islands. They are controlled by Beijing but also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan. China's navy is holding a week of military drills around the disputed islands ahead of a ruling by an international tribunal in a case filed by the Philippines challenging China's claim to most of the South China Sea. China is boycotting the case before The Hague-based court and says it will not accept the verdict. (Zha Chunming/Xinhua via AP)

SOUTH CHINA SEA A landmark ruling on an arbitration case filed by the Philippines that seeks to strike down China’s expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea will be a test for international law and world powers. China has boycotted the case and vowed to ignore the verdict, which will be handed down tomorrow by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. More on p.10, 12

An orangutan named "Sandra," photographed through a window, sits inside a cage at the former Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina, Friday, July 1, 2016. The city government announced last week it will transform the city's zoo into an ecological park for a limited number of species, and begin with the transfer of birds of prey to natural reserves. Their plan to also transform the site into a conservation and research facility will take years while veterinarians decide which animals can be transferred to reserves, locally and abroad. But Sandra won’t be going with them. She’ll stay in a larger, better enclosure than the one she now endures, said Javier Goldschtein of Forest Bank Foundation, a member of the commission overseeing transformation of the zoo. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
INDONESIA A global conservation group says Borneo’s orangutans are now a critically endangered species due to hunting and destruction of forest habitat, estimating that their numbers have dropped by nearly two-thirds since the early 1970s and will further decline by 2025.

CAMBODIA A political analyst who was a well-known government critic has been shot dead in what police say was a personal dispute over money.

AUSTRALIA’s prime minister says his conservative coalition government was re-elected for a second three-year term, after a chaotic national election that left the country in a state of political paralysis for more than a week while officials scrambled to sort out who had won the tight race.

India Kashmir Top Rebel KilledINDIA The death toll in Kashmir rose to 18 yesterday as clashes between Indian troops and protesters continued despite a curfew imposed in the disputed Himalayan region to suppress anti-India anger following the killing of a popular rebel commander.

IRAN Officials criticized the participation of a Saudi prince and former intelligence chief in an Iranian opposition rally in Paris. In remarks aired by the Saudi-owned broadcaster Al-Arabiya, Prince Turki told the Paris gathering that he supported the toppling of the Iranian government.

Russia The country’s military says two soldiers have died after a helicopter was show down in Syria.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain crosses the finish line to win the British Formula One Grand Prix at the Silverstone racetrack, Silverstone, England, Sunday, July 10, 2016. (David Davies/PA via AP)

UK Defending Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton reeled off his fourth win in five races yesterday to storm to victory in the British Grand Prix. The 31-year-old Englishman came home 6.9 seconds clear of his German teammate Nico Rosberg.

G20 Trade ministers from the G20 nations called on their governments yesterday to roll back anti-trade measures that have become more pervasive than any time since 2009. Following a two-day meeting in Shanghai, the ministers said that they’re “concerned” about rising protectionism around the world and “significantly slowed” trade growth figures.

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