1. Vietnam has sent diplomatic notes to China and the Philippines to protest against their activities in contested South China Sea waters, and urging them to respect its territorial claims.

2. India had banned the import of goods coming from or transiting via Pakistan and barred Pakistani ships as tensions rise.

3. Trump’s administration wants to lighten the federal budget by $163 billion while raising defense and border-security spending. The proposal includes reducing US health spending, cutting billions for projects in renewable energy, climate change and EV chargers.

4. Trump said he would extend the June 19 deadline for ByteDance to divest the US assets of TikTok, if no deal had been reached by then.

5. The Gates Foundation and other philanthropies set up a fund to help save the lives of newborns and mothers in sub-Saharan Africa.