▪ More than 2,500 evacuated due to rain; 27 dead or missing
▪ N. Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits flooded village, orders to supply grain reserves
▪ Global recovery to speed up if COVID-19 vaccine made available to all: WHO chief
▪ U.S. places all of South Korea under second-top tier of “reconsider travel” advisory
▪ S. Korean trainee doctors to begin planned walk-out in protest to gov’t healthcare reform proposal
▪ S. Korea to provide US$ 10 mil. humanitarian aid to N. Korea via UN agency
▪ Upcoming Seoul-Washington drills partly aimed at preparing OPCON transfer to S. Korea: Pentagon
▪ China expresses firm opposition to banning of Chinese apps from U.S. app stores
▪ Defense chiefs of U.S., China discuss Taiwan and South China Sea
▪ Welding work at warehouse may have caused massive explosion in Lebanon
▪ Downpours in south through Saturday
