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Paris Agreement, Philippines, Vladimir Putin | View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Friday, June 2, 2017 [NYTimes.com »]( Asia Edition [Your Friday Briefing]( By PENN BULLOCK Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: Doug Mills/The New York Times • “We are getting out.” The United States, the [largest carbon polluter in history]( will [withdraw from the Paris climate deal]( President Trump announced at the White House. Ignoring the pleas of business leaders, climate activists and members of his own staff, Mr. Trump argued that the goal of reducing carbon emissions would cost the economy too much. Withdrawing from the accord could take up to four years, meaning a final decision could be left to voters in the next presidential election. Here’s a look at [what this means]( for the U.S. and how other countries will respond to Mr. Trump’s decision to withdraw from the accord. _____ Bullit Marquez/Associated Press • In Manila, police officers with [bomb-sniffing dogs stormed the Philippines’ largest hotel-casino resort]( early Friday morning, hours after at least one gunman invaded and sent panicked guests fleeing amid fears of a terrorist attack. Above, smoke rises from the complex. In the southern city of Marawi, an airstrike by the Philippine military on Thursday [killed 11 of its own soldiers]( and injured seven others as they battled militants aligned with the Islamic State. The accident fueled criticism of an offensive that may be transforming into a grinding siege. _____ Grigory Dukor/Reuters • For the first time, President [Vladimir V. Putin hinted of Russian involvement]( in last year’s cyberattacks to help the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. While he denied any state role, he said that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers may have participated. And in Washington, the former F.B.I. director, [James B. Comey, will testify]( in Congress on June 8 about his interactions with President Trump, setting up a new test for the White House. _____ David Chen • Beijing crackdown, 28 years later. Like many of the pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989, David Chen was a university student. Unlike many, he had a camera. [He showed us the photographs]( he took, and hid, for 28 years. In Hong Kong, organizers of an annual vigil marking the June 4 massacre are calling on young people to come out this year to protest [the coming visit of President Xi Jinping of China](. _____ Stuart Hannagan/Getty Images • Margaret Court, 74, an Australian who dominated women’s tennis in the 1960s, has reignited a [debate about her legacy]( after making a series of inflammatory comments about gays and [same-sex marriage](. Her beliefs are not new, but her unflinching remarks have provoked some current players to say they would object to playing on a court named after her and raised criticism from tennis greats. “We should not be celebrating this kind of behaviour, this kind of philosophy,” Martina Navratilova wrote in [an open letter to Court]( in The Sydney Morning Herald. _____ Ali Abbas/European Pressphoto Agency • Zynab Al Harbiya, a 12-year-old from Melbourne, was killed this week by a suicide bomber at an ice cream shop in Baghdad. Damien Cave, our Australia bureau chief, [reflects on his own experiences in Iraq]( and asks what her future might have been. Another casualty of the violence may yet come into view: a new attempt to move toward [peace negotiations with the Taliban](. Above, an Iraqi outside the bombed shop. Business Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times • A Chinese factory that makes shoes for Ivanka Trump’s line highlights [shifts in working conditions](. • The world’s largest airplane, a twin-hulled behemoth built by the billionaire Paul Allen, [emerged from its hangar]( in Mojave, Calif. • Tujia, [China’s rival to Airbnb]( is expanding in destinations popular with Chinese travelers in Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea. • The European Union [backed]( plan]( that would allow Italy to inject capital into the world’s oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena. • U.S. stocks [were up](. Here’s a snapshot of [global markets](. In the News Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State/Caltech/MIT/LIGO • Astronomers said they had felt space-time vibrations from the merger of a pair of mammoth black holes resulting in a pit of infinitely deep darkness weighing as much as 49 suns, some 3 billion light-years away. [[The New York Times]( • Suicide is now the primary cause of death in Japan for people age 15 to 39, surpassing accidents and cancer. [[The Asahi Shimbun]( • The authorities in Xian, in central China, canceled a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender conference, telling organizers that they were not welcome in the city. [[Hong Kong Free Press]( • Female athletes in China appear to be continually underrated and underappreciated compared to their male counterparts. [[ESPN]( • Price increases went into effect in Japan on beer, butter and postcards. [[Japan Today]( • A report by a United Nations official described “worrying signals” for the freedom of expression in Japan and criticized plans by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to overhaul the pacifist Constitution. [[The Japan Times]( • Under a welfare experiment in Australia, recipients of aid who test positive for illegal drugs may have their income managed by the state for up to 2 years. [[ABC]( • Japan is fighting an ecological invasion of North American raccoons. A children’s anime series from the 1970s may be to blame. [[Nautilus]( Smarter Living Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The New York Times • Child’s play is [good]( all of us](. • You’re too focused on yourself. We all have a tendency to [egocentrically ascribe our own perspective]( to others. That doesn’t make us selfish or bad. • Recipe of the day: If you’re aiming for big flavor, get [garlicky chicken with lemon-anchovy sauce]( on the table. Noteworthy Jonathan Corum/The New York Times • Savage winds, twisted rocks and footprints that can last a lifetime. The [McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica]( may be Earth’s closest equivalent to a Martian landscape. • The teacher’s real pet. At some New York schools, [dogs help teach children]( about empathy and resilience and offer furry comfort when it’s needed most. • Finally, here’s our selection of the [Summer’s Best Travel Books](. Biking from India to Europe for love, hiking the Alps and visiting Cuba, Gascony and the South Pole. Back Story  Forget the Super Bowl. Tomorrow is one of the year’s most watched sporting events, the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Juventus of Turin. Real Madrid is the current champion. Juventus just won its sixth straight Italian championship. They will clash at a Welsh stadium with a [capacity of 74,500](. Millions will watch the soccer game’s broadcasts on television and online. In honor of the occasion, we dug into our archives. Among the earliest Times reports on soccer are two from 1905, which recount the efforts of British amateur soccer players to popularize “socker” (as it was then spelled in The Times) among Americans. “The Britishers have spent nearly two months in this country trying to teach football players that football with feet and not hands is the proper thing,” one read. “As a spectacle it is almost the equal of baseball.” “English Football To Be Tested Here,” [read the headline announcing]( the game. “Our idea was to come over and start a boom for it,” the British team’s captain said. His team [defeated New York City, 7-1]( under the gaze of a “good-sized crowd” of about 3,000. Patrick Boehler contributed reporting. _____ This briefing was prepared for the Asian morning. We also have briefings timed for the [Australian]( [European]( and [American]( mornings. You can sign up for these and other Times newsletters [here](. Your Morning Briefing is published weekday mornings and updated online. 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