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President Donald Trump will be conducting high-stakes diplomacy during his trip to Asia next week. Trump will attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Malaysia on Sunday, followed by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Meeting in South Korea, and possibly a bilateral meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Thursday. 

Indian oil refiners were reportedly unhappy with Wednesday’s news that President Donald Trump imposed heavy sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil.

Alexander Khinshtein, governor of Russia’s Kursk region, said in a televised interview on Tuesday that North Korean troops are assisting with mine-clearing efforts along the border with Ukraine.

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) on Wednesday proposed some of the world’s toughest regulations for content generated by artificial intelligence (AI), including “visible labelling, metadata traceability, and transparency for all public-facing AI-generated media.”

Yamamoto Taku is a Japanese politician from a dovish faction of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) who has serious policy disputes with the new prime minister, Takaichi Sanae.

Japan’s first female prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, laid out an ambitious conservative agenda after winning her office in a parliamentary vote on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump signed a critical minerals deal with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday, a team-up explicitly intended to break China’s near-monopoly on mining and refining the valuable resources.

Conservative Takaichi Sanae is Japan’s first female prime minister after the 64-year-old triumphed Tuesday in an historic vote to clear the way for her ascendancy.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reported that 25 provincial authorities are set to begin distributing “maternity allowances” to women on November 1.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry took a moment on Monday to chastise the government of Paraguay for its longstanding alliance with Taiwan, warning that it’s commitment to the sovereign nation would “lead nowhere.”

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) made a deal on Monday to form a coalition with the Japan Innovation Party, generally known as “Ishin,” that should clear away the final obstacles to conservative Takaichi Sanae becoming Japan’s first female prime minister.

Passengers on an Air China flight witnessed a lithium battery burst into flames in luggage that had been placed in an overhead bin on Saturday.

Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive officer of Russia’s $10 billion RDIF investment fund and the Kremlin’s investment envoy to America, on Thursday proposed building a tunnel beneath the Bering Strait that would link Alaska with Russia’s Chukotka region.

The Trump administration floated a bold idea to break China’s monopoly on rare earth minerals and attract long-term investment in U.S. rare earth production.

The Chinese Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that it had banished nine senior member of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers, including a former Politburo member, from the Communist Party for alleged corruption.

Chinese state actors are a national security threat to the United Kingdom “every day”, Russian agents are committed to “causing havoc and destruction”, and Iran is actively trying to kill people on British soil, a top spy has said. The

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to block imports of Chinese cooking oil in retaliation for China’s apparent blockade of soybeans from the United States.

The Russian government on Thursday downplayed President Donald Trump’s statement that he has persuaded India to dramatically reduce its massive purchases of Russian oil, teasing a major offering of Russian military hardware as an incentive for India to keep funding President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

The Chinese government on Thursday insisted its massive oil imports from Russia are “legitimate and lawful” and threatened “countermeasures to firmly defend its sovereignty” if President Donald Trump pressures Beijing to stop buying Russian oil.

The Chinese Commerce Ministry on Tuesday announced sanctions against five subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilding company Hanwha Ocean.

The External Affairs Ministry of India issued a statement on Thursday indicating that the country is seeking to “expand our energy procurement” from the United States, following President Donald Trump telling reporters the day before that New Delhi is planning to limit its Russian oil purchases.

China intercepted “vast amounts” of the most classified documents for several years by buying the data centre, Dominic Cummings has claimed.

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that over a dozen civilians were killed during overnight clashes along the border with Pakistan.

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare reported on Sunday that a record 22,878 babies were born to foreign parents in 2024, accounting for over 3 percent of all newborns. 

Evacuations were issued and nearby flights delayed after Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, erupted again – sending a blast of ash five miles into the sky in the shape of nuclear mushroom cloud.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared that the Trump administration “won’t negotiate” with China in response to stock market volatility, but because “we are doing what is best economically for the U.S.” after the Wall Street Journal reported otherwise.

Google will invest a staggering $15 billion to build data center capacity for a new AI hub in southern India, marking the company’s largest AI investment outside of the United States.

Eighty percent of swing district voters back seizing illegal Chinese-made vapes at the border and prosecuting gangs that smuggle e-cigarettes, which could give Republicans a key advantage that could help the GOP maintain control of the House.

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt’s Nobel Prize-winning research exposes why China’s systematic IP theft violates the core conditions required for innovation to flourish.

The Chinese Communist government launched its biggest crackdown on Christians in years over the weekend, detaining dozens of pastors from “house churches,” including Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, the founder of one of China’s biggest evangelical churches.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un held a massive military parade on Friday and Saturday in Pyongyang that included the public debut of North Korea’s most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-20.

Brexit boss Nigel Farage has warned that the scandal over the dropping of charges against suspected spies for Communist China could fundamentally undermine the intelligence relationship between Britain and the United States.

A popular Korean TikTok influencer has been murdered, and the alleged killer is one of her most dedicated supporters, a man in his 50’s who had donated more than $70,000 to the social media starlet.