European Union leaders are trying to break a deadlock (AP) over a proposed economic recovery package as a summit meeting—scheduled to have ended on Saturday—continues today.

Tensions ran high (Politico) as leaders tried to hash out the size and scope of an economic recovery fund and a broader EU budget with a combined worth of more than $2 trillion. A group of wealthier, so-called frugal nations (Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden) is pushing for cuts (FT) to the 750-billion-euro bailout fund. Others, including Italy and Spain, oppose the cuts. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban also reportedly bristled at a proposal to condition aid on respect for the rule of law. 

The United Kingdom is expected to suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong today (Guardian). Australia, Canada, and the United States have taken similar measures following China’s imposition of a new security law on the semiautonomous region.
 
Japan: Systemic abuse of Japanese child athletes by coaches has caused lasting mental and physical harm, including suicides, according to a Human Rights Watch report. The report comes as Japan prepares to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2021.

Seasonal monsoon rains have flooded Bangladesh, India, and Nepal in recent weeks, killing nearly two hundred people, displacing millions, and leaving others missing. On Sunday, Bangladeshi and Nepali officials warned that the floods will continue (AFP).
 
Afghanistan: Taliban attacks in the country’s Kunduz Province reportedly killed thirteen Afghan security force members and injured ten others (TOLO). The Taliban’s ongoing attacks on government forces have cast doubt on the possibility of intra-Afghan talks that the group agreed to under a February deal with the United States.
 
This CFR Backgrounder explains what to know about the U.S.-Taliban peace deal.

Emirati scientists sent an unmanned spacecraft on a seven-month trip to Mars from a Japanese launch site (PTI). The United Arab Emirates will beat China and the United States to Mars, the head of the UAE space agency said.
 
Iran: The country executed a man convicted of spying (AFP) for Israel and the United States after suspending the executions of three people involved in the country’s November protests (Al-Monitor). The protesters’ death sentences had drawn condemnation from France, the United Nations, and U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

Opposition lawmakers in Mali rejected a team of regional mediators’ plan for a unity government (Al Jazeera) because it would allow President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to remain in power. Mediators from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have been trying to broker a truce following historic unrest in the country. At least eleven people were killed in protests last week.
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Kenya: Many Kenyans are waiting more than a week to receive coronavirus test results, up from twenty-four hours when testing began in March. As coronavirus cases continue to rise, the country is grappling with a lack of testing kits and staff (Daily Nation).

Thousand rallied in Russia’s Far East region in support of a popular governor (WaPo), opposition member Sergei Furgal, who has been charged in connection to alleged murder plots. Furgal’s supporters say his arrest is retaliation for his victory over a candidate from President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party in the 2018 gubernatorial election.

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez told the Financial Times his country cannot improve its offer to restructure $65 billion worth of debt ahead of an August 4 deadline for creditors to accept the deal. Argentina entered its ninth-ever default in May.
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CFR’s Brad W. Setser breaks down Argentina’s debt crisis.

Brazil: President Jair Bolsonaro, who has tested positive for the coronavirus, blamed pandemic lockdown measures for killing people and suffocating the economy (MercoPress).

John Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Georgia and a leading figure of the civil rights movement (NYT), died on Friday at eighty years old. Democratic lawmakers called for an expansion of voting rights legislation (WaPo) to honor his legacy.
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In Portland, federal officials dismissed the mayor’s call for them to leave (WaPo) the city as federal law enforcement officers continued to crack down on historic protests against police brutality and systemic racism. Federal agents have been accused of detaining protesters without identifying themselves and using unmarked vehicles.