1. Blinken warns Israel and Hamas of last chance to end Gaza war.

2. Indian medics refuse to end protests over the rape and murder of a fellow medic.

3. The Philippines has detected a new case of the mpox virus in the country, the first since December last year.

4. Two German warships await orders from Berlin to determine whether next month they will be the first German naval vessels in decades to pass through the Taiwan Strait, drawing a rebuke from Beijing.

5. Ukraine had struck and damaged a third bridge over the Seym river in Russia's Kursk region a day earlier.

6. Japan's national and Tokyo governments are seeking a $4.7 billion valuation for Tokyo Metro.