1. The South Korean government decided on Tuesday to provide all elementary, middle and high schools with 24 million won or 18,474 USD each to alleviate the burden of air-conditioning bills.
2. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday said that he had let the mutiny caused by Wagner’s mercenary group on Saturday proceed as long as it did to avoid bloodshed while Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin said he never intended to overthrow the government.
3. The Japanese government on Tuesday during a cabinet meeting approved a motion to revise an administrative order on trade, adding South Korea back to its whitelist of preferential trading partners after about 4 years.
