U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in Geneva (NYT) for talks that could restore some stability to a bilateral relationship Putin says has “deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years.”
 
The leaders are expected to discuss cybersecurity, including the alleged Russian origins of recent ransomware attacks in the United States, climate change, arms control, and Moscow’s repression of domestic opposition. Biden suggested the meeting (AP) in an April call with Putin, during which they also discussed the United States’ expulsions of Russian diplomats and new sanctions in response to Russian hacking and election interference. Ambassadors to the United States and Russia left their posts (FT) earlier this year amid a spike in tensions between the countries, but they are expected to return following today’s summit.

The Chinese military flew twenty-eight planes (Reuters), including fighters and bombers, into Taiwan’s airspace. It was the largest such incursion since Taiwan began regularly monitoring Chinese air activities last year.
 
This Backgrounder looks at why China-Taiwan relations are so tense.
 
North Korea: Leader Kim Jong-un said the country’s food situation is becoming “tense” (WaPo). South Korean think tank Korea Development Institute estimates that a grain-production slump has caused a 1.5-million-ton food shortage since last year. UN Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana last week warned of “drastic economic hardship” in North Korea.

Myanmar authorities released American journalist Nathan Maung (CNN), the editor of local news site Kamayut Media who had been detained in the country since March 9. American journalist Danny Fenster, who was detained on May 24, remains under arrest.
 
CFR’s Joshua Kurlantzick examines Myanmar’s deepening humanitarian crisis for the Asia Unbound blog.
 
Bangladesh: A Chinese-backed coal-fired power plant is making misleading claims (Bloomberg) about its environmental impact, according to the Finland-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.

Israel launched air strikes on Gaza (CNN) in response to incendiary balloons that Palestinian militant groups flew over Israel. They were the first such strikes since a truce that ended an eleven-day conflict last month. No casualties were immediately reported. The groups floated the balloons in response to a right-wing march in Jerusalem during which thirty-three Palestinian protesters were injured.
 
Tunisia: President Kais Saied called for a dialogue with political parties to amend the country’s constitution (Reuters) to ease a political standoff with Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, the leader of the moderate Islamist party Ennahda.    

Addis Ababa rejected a resolution (Al Jazeera) by the Arab League that called for the UN Security Council to intervene in Ethiopia’s dispute with Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The African Union is currently mediating the dispute.
 
Sudan: Authorities said they agreed on most of a peace deal (Reuters) with Abdelaziz al-Hilu, the leader of the rebel group Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North. Al-Hilu did not participate in a peace agreement between the country’s ruling council and several rebel groups last year.

Hungary’s legislature passed a law that bans the distribution (Reuters) of any content deemed to promote being gay or transgender to people under the age of eighteen and institutes strict penalties for pedophilia. The move prompted large protests for conflating LGBTQ+ identities with pedophilia, among other reasons.

The leaders of weekslong anti-government protests in Colombia announced they were suspending demonstrations (Reuters) to focus their efforts on drafting bills to share with Congress. The protests have denounced economic hardship and police brutality.
 
Brazil: Brazil became the first South American country to sign the Artemis Accords (UPI), a U.S.-led framework for responsible exploration of space that includes a program to send people to Mars.

President Biden named Lina Khan, a law professor and prominent critic of technology giants (NYT), the new chairperson of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
 
For the Net Politics blog, Maya Villasenor discusses whether global antitrust regulators are prepared to confront Big Tech.