World – SRN News

• Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations

• Crimea strikes could rise sevenfold if Western funds came faster, Ukraine drone commander tells AP

• Count Binface, the man in a can with a plan, seeks Parliament seat in Britain’s wackiest election

• Myanmar rebuffs ASEAN’s call to free Aung San Suu Kyi and questions the need for an envoy

• Wildfires near Spokane, Washington, wind down as evacuees begin to return

• Malaysia PM Anwar undergoing medical procedures, aide says

• Western Europe sets new temperature record as heat waves pummel the region

• The Media Line: 5 Months Without Ships: What the Hormuz Closure Costs the Arab Side of the Strait

• Fire near Indonesia’s Mount Bromo extinguished after 550 hectares burnt, but new hotspots emerge

• The Media Line: Pakistan Says Mecca Defense Pact Not Aimed at Any Country, Open to New Members