Asia Pacific - NYTimes

1. Trump’s Threat to Impose Fees in the Strait of Hormuz Contradicts His Aides

2. Fire in Bangkok Bar Was a Death Trap With Inaccessible Exits and Flammable Foam

3. Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Install Ahmadinejad, Iran’s Former President, as Leader

4. Sam Neill, New Zealand Actor Known for ‘Jurassic Park,’ Dies at 78

5. Japan Builds Intelligence Agency It Hasn’t Had Since World War II

6. Why Young People in China Are Buying Feelings

7. Fire in Bangkok Bar Leaves at Least 27 Dead

8. With Lindsey Graham Gone, Ukraine Loses an Ally in Trump’s Ear

9. How Trump Failed to Secure the Strait of Hormuz in His Iran Deal

10. Inside Herat, Where a Taliban Campaign Targets a Cosmopolitan Outpost

11. Typhoon Bavi Hits China, Causing Evacuations, Floods and Flight Delays

12. As India Erases Its Colonial Past, Delhi’s Elite Feel Targeted

13. How Putin Turned Japan Into a Den of Spies

14. 15 Killed as Speedboat Capsizes in Vietnam

15. ‘They Don’t Need People’: The Workers Left Behind by China’s Robot Drive

16. What China’s Successful Rocket Launch Means for the Future of the Space Race

17. Sexual Assault and Killing of Girl Set Off Days of Protest in West Bengal

18. China Launches Reusable Rocket, Clearing a Key Hurdle in Race With SpaceX

19. Indian Diaspora, Now the Largest Foreign-Born Group in Australia, Welcomes Modi

20. At Least 12 People Die in Southern Spain Wildfire