1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday reaffirmed plans to protect and support retail investors by scrapping the financial investment income tax, which is set to be introduced next year, during a Cabinet meeting at the presidential office.
2.South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik said in an interview with Bloomberg published Monday, that South Korea is not ruling out the possibility of North Korea conducting a nuclear test before or after the U.S. presidential election in November to bolster its leverage.
3.Reuters reported Tuesday that the United States is leading a diplomatic dash to deter Israel from striking Lebanon's capital Beirut or major civil infrastructure, as Lebanon braced for retaliation after a rocket strike that killed 12 children and teenagers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
