President Erdoğan announced that the new minimum wage is increased by 30 percent to 5,500 liras, being effective from July 1. (News Agencies)

Recently, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) raised interest rates to 15% in a bid to curb inflation. [Newsweekpakistan] Days later the government of Pakistan raised gas prices by 335% for consumers and failed to slash gas prices significantly to ease pressure on the industrial sector. [Dawn]

On Sunday 3 July 2022, a well-visited shopping mall in Copenhagen, Field’s, formed the stage for a mass shooting during opening hours. A 22-year-old ethnic Danish man entered the mall with a rifle and shot at civilians who were present with families and children. 10 were shot, of whom 3 were killed and several seriously injured. It is still unclear what drove the perpetrator,

Major rivers continue swelling amid torrential rain and onrush of water downstream from India. Around a dozen trans-border rivers with India in Sylhet and Sunamganj were swelling, while river Kushiara was flowing 114cm above the danger level and Surma was flowing 83cm above the danger level. In the northern district of Lalmonirhat, water level of the Dharla and the Teesta increased to cross danger level in the last two days…