Ransomware, Toshiba, Xi Jinping: Your Morning Briefing
[The New York Times] • Our soccer columnist on FIFA’s report into how the 2018
and 2022 World Cups were awarded: "Everyone involved in the bidding process at some point transgressed the spirit of it." [The New York Times] • Citizens of the Philippines could be required to sing the national anthem — "with fervor" — when it is played in public.
_____ • President Trump welcomes South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in, to the White House for dinner
and a meeting on Friday as he looks to bolster his campaign to rein in North Korea amid plummeting ties with China.
North Korea, meanwhile, ordered the execution of Park Geun-hye, the imprisoned former president of South Korea,
and her intelligence chief, accusing them of "hideous state-sponsored terrorism." The statement, which amounted to an assassination decree, came nearly two months after the isolated country accused the South Korean intelligence service of conspiring with the C.I.A.
President Nicolás Maduro said the attack was part of a "coup plot." [The New York Times] • British prosecutors
charged six people in the deaths of 96 soccer fans at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, England, in 1989.
A New York Times reporter returned to Hong Kong to find a city changed, awakening the ghosts of his youth.
Hong Kong said that They’re trying to make Hong Kong people get used to the demonstration of central authority,
• Sarah Palin, a former vice-presidential candidate, filed a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, over an editorial
that linked her to a mass shooting in January 2011 before being corrected.
