1. The French antitrust regulator fined Google up to 220 million euros for abusing its advertising position in the technology sector. Google agreed to settle and end self-preference in its programmed online advertising business, promising to introduce a series of measures to allow competitors to use its online advertising tools.

2. On 8 June, the President of France, Macron, was slapped by a man while inspecting Delon (Drome region) in the south-eastern part of the country. Macron was interacting with people on the side of the road when a man suddenly slapped him in the face. Security personnel immediately separated Macron from the man. So far, two people have been arrested for the incident.

3. South Korea’s National Bureau of Statistics: in April, sales of duty-free shops in South Korea increased by 51.6% compared with the same period last year, reaching a three-year high. In terms of goods sold, sales of shoes and bags surged 108% year-on-year, cosmetics increased by 37.9%, and other goods increased by 173%.

4. US Food and Drug Administration: approved Aduhelm (aducanumab, Adumab developed by pharmaceutical company Bojian) to treat patients with Alzheimer’s disease, which is the first new treatment approved for Alzheimer’s disease since 2003. Adumab costs US$56000 a year, and the company has promised not to raise the price of the drug for the next four years.

 5. The U.S. Senate voted for and against the American Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 by a vote of 68 to 32 local time on the 8th. The bill aims to invest more than US$200 billion in technology, science and research in the United States to counter China’s growing influence, the report said.

6. QS Quacquarelli Symonds6, a world higher education research institute, released a complete list of 2022QS world universities on March 9th. For the first time in this year’s list, two Chinese mainland universities made it into the world’s top 20, namely Tsinghua University and Peking University, ranking 17th and 18th respectively. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked first in the world for the 10th year in a row. Oxford University rose to second place for the first time since 2006, while Stanford University and Cambridge University tied for third place.

7. The CDC: as of June 7, local time, only 13 states have met the Biden administration’s goal of vaccinating 70% of American adults with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine by July 4th. Data show that more than 171 million Americans have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, accounting for 51.6% of the total population of the United States; nearly 140 million Americans have completed two doses of vaccination, accounting for 42.1% of the total population of the United States.

8. In order to boost the troubled aviation and tourism industries under the epidemic and to meet the needs of people for outbound travel, the South Korean government announced on June 9th local time that it was in close consultation with a number of countries and regions to promote the “bubble tourism” project with conditional mutual exemption, which will allow teams to travel abroad from July.

9. Economic Monitoring Centre of India: in May, the number of unemployed in India exceeded 15 million, causing the unemployment rate to rise sharply to 11.9% from 7.9% in April. 

10. The ECB: keep the main refinancing rate unchanged at 0%, the deposit mechanism rate at-0.5% and the marginal lending rate at 0.25%. 

11. It has been revealed that Tepco will not test the concentration of diluted nuclear sewage and will only rely on calculation to determine whether it meets the standard, Tokyo Electric Power Company has been exposed to a tentative policy of discharging nuclear sewage into the sea, Kyodo news agency reported. Reported that Tepco plans to discharge nuclear sewage from the Fukushima nuclear power plant two years later, the policy of not testing the concentration was exposed, causing controversy from all walks of life. 

12. According to the German Federal Bureau of Statistics, after working days and seasonally adjusted, German exports reached 111.8 billion euros in April this year, up 0.3 percent from the previous month, the 12th consecutive month of month-on-month growth, and 47.7 percent higher than when the blockade was strictly imposed in the same period last year. Imports in the same month reached 96.3 billion euros, down 1.7 percent from the previous month and an increase of 33.2 percent over the same period last year.