Narendra Modi, Travel Ban, Liu Xiaobo: Your Morning Briefing – New York Times

The court also allowed the ban to go into effect for people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen who do not already have ties to the U.S.

Here are the basics.

Mr. Trump hailed a clear victory for our national security.

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South Korea is offering the U.S. reassurances on North Korea ahead of President Moon Jae-ins visit to the White House on Thursday and Friday.

The countrys foreign minister indicated that Seoul would honor an agreement to deploy the American Thaad missile-defense system despite public protests, above, and economic retaliation from China.

She also said the government would not hurry to try to reopen a jointly run industrial complex in the North Korean city of Kaesong, a conduit for hard currency for the North.

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A New York Times correspondent, above, who has covered race in the U.S. traveled through Australias indigenous communities and encountered young people defying stereotypes and the painful legacy of colonization with outrage, resignation and courage.

A 60-minute documentary based on his travels, part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporations Foreign Correspondent series, will air today and online.

And check out The Breakdown, conversation starters and context drawn from Australia news. Catch up on David Petraeuss views on Australian might, the Great Barrier Reefs estimated value and Russell Crowes battle with gossip weeklies.

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Climate conundrum: The amount of carbon dioxide humans are pumping into the air seems to have stabilized but data gathered at the worlds monitoring stations, like the one above in Tasmania, show that excess carbon dioxide is still on the rise

One troubling possibility: The worlds natural sponges for the greenhouse gas, like the ocean, are no longer able to keep up.

Indias tech workers face the possibility that automation, robotics and other technologies will prompt their industry, valued at $150 billion a year, to shed jobs en masse.

A court in Shanghai sentenced three Australian and 13 other employees of Crown Resorts to prison terms for illegally promoting gambling. The case is seen as Beijings warning to foreign gambling operators.

Whats next for Takata? We look at the far-reaching consequences of the bankruptcy declaration by the airbag maker at the center of worlds largest auto safety recall.

European Union officials are expected to issue a record fine of at least $1.2 billion against Google for breaking the regions competition rules.

Best Inc, the Chinese delivery firm backed by Alibaba, filed for an initial public offering on Wall Street, with an initial target of $750 million.

Most U.S. stocks were higher. Heres a snapshot of global markets.

Liu Xiaobo, the jailed Chinese activist who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, received a medical parole to be treated for late-stage cancer, and supporters called for his wife, Liu Xia, to be freed from house arrest and allowed to visit him. [The New York Times]

Pakistans prime minister cut short a private visit to London and promised to get to the bottom of the fuel tanker inferno in Punjab Province that killed at least 153 people. [The New York Times]

In southwest China, a month-old infant whose crying woke his parents is credited with their miraculous survival in a landslide that appears to have claimed the rest of their village. [Caixin]

Flashback: In 1973, Chan Hak-chi and his wife swam six hours through a typhoon and shark-infested waters to reach Hong Kong and escape Chinas Cultural Revolution. [Sixth Tone]

Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.

Give biking to work a try. Start with our guide.

If you find yourself nodding off at your desk today, go ahead and take a nap. Itll do wonders for your productivity.

Recipe of the day: A cucumber and yogurt salad sprinkled with dill and sour cherries is a wonderful complement to a hearty main dish.

Australian odyssey: Our reporter went out on a lonely highway on a mission to save joeys baby kangaroos whose mothers ended up as roadkill. She also found a makeshift orphanage that takes in about 100 baby roos a year.

New Zealand is celebrating after a crew of young newcomers finished off a surprisingly lopsided 7-1 victory over their U.S. rivals to reclaim the Americas Cup after a 14-year wait.

K-pops effervescent universe was on full volume at KCON, an annual concert festival in New Jersey devoted to up-close and giggly interaction with fans (( hi-touch, in the lingo of the genre).

The Times has set up a forum for our journalists to speak directly to you about our coverage. Today, they explain why some important news stories run in feature sections and discuss the challenges in making our coverage more global in perspective.

Today is Seven Sleepers Day, which both celebrates an ancient legend and supposedly predicts the weather in the German-speaking parts of Europe.

The legend, which features in both Christian and Islamic tradition, stretches back centuries. It involves a group of seven youths who escaped religious persecution by hiding in a cave, where they slept for hundreds of years before awakening.

More practically speaking, the days weather is thought to foretell conditions for the rest of the summer, similar to the way Groundhog Day predicts the arrival of spring in the U.S.

Above, a hiker on Herzogstand Mountain in southern Germany.

According to one saying, ist der Siebenschlfer nass, regnets ohne Unterlass, or if Seven Sleepers is wet, it rains unceasingly. More precisely, if it rains on June 27, it will pour for seven weeks.

The days predictive power is helped, as Germanys weather service explains, by the jet stream, which stabilizes around this time, providing, with some variation, a consistent forecast.

(Confusing matters, the days name in German is Siebenschlfertag, which is nearly identical but unrelated to Siebenschlfer, the word for a type of dormouse common in Europe that hibernates for about seven months.)

Palko Karasz contributed reporting.

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