Narendra Modi, Eid al-Fitr, China: Your Morning Briefing [The New York Times] • Mongolians vote today in a neck-and-neck race for a new president. " a police official said, "but people wouldn’t listen and more kept coming." And in London, regulatory failures appear to have allowed the use of flammable cladding that channeled the lethal blaze at Grenfell Tower last week, which killed at least 79 people. that We kept on telling people to leave the crash site, It was a New York Times best seller for weeks before a review on Feb. 14, 1999 called it "a wonderful first novel" by an author who had achieved "something quite special." As Albus Dumbledore, one of her characters, once said, words are "our most inexhaustible source of magic." Chris Stanford contributed reporting. [BBC] • AirAsia X, the Malaysian long-haul budget carrier, has not yet explained what caused a plane to limp back to Perth "shaking like a washing machine." [BBC] • In Berlin, crowds and officials greeted two giant pandas — Meng Meng (Sweet Dream) and Jiao Qing (Darling) — on loan from China for about $1 million a year. _____ Join the celebrations — and reflect on the range of rights — in Dublin, Shanghai, Kiev and other cities during June Pride festivities. View all New York Times newsletters.
