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US President Donald Trump meets with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the Oval Office, at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, August 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Brian Snyder
USA

Trump wants to meet North Korea's Kim this year, he tells South Korea

"I'd like to meet him this year," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office as he welcomed South Korea's new president, Lee Jae Myung, to the White House for the first time. "...

A general view shows HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Ulsan Shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, December 29, 2023. Photo: HD Hyundai Heavy Industries/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Global Economy

South Korea bets big on reviving troubled US shipbuilding to woo Trump

The Cambodia National Assembly is seen in central Phnom Penh April 4, 2016. Photo: REUTERS/Samrang Pring/File Photo
Asia

Cambodia passes law to revoke citizenship of people convicted of treason

Waves approach Cua Lo beach, as seen through a window, while Typhoon Kajiki approaches in Nghe An province, Vietnam, August 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Minh Nguyen
Asia

Vietnam braces for Typhoon Kajiki as it nears coast

Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate for South Korea's Democratic Party, prepares for the second televised debate for the upcoming presidential election in Seoul, South Korea, May 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Pool/File Photo
Politics

South Korea's Lee faces pivotal test at first summit with Trump

South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo, Japan, August 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool
Asia

Japan's Ishiba, South Korea's Lee agree closer cooperation before Lee meets Trump

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi. Photo: Hindustan Times/ANI
World+Biz

'Why not Sheikh Hasina?': Hyderabad MP questions Modi govt's plan on deporting Bangladeshis

Suspended Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrives at the Constitutional Court to testify in a high-profile ethics case, following a leaked phone conversation between her and Cambodia’s former leader Hun Sen, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
Asia

Thailand's Shinawatra dynasty faces triple court test that could upend politics

A remote-controlled robot unit for removing nuclear contamination is unveiled in Japan, aiming to clean Fukushima nuclear plant that suffered a meltdown following the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster. Photo: AFP
Asia

Robots deployed for Fukushima radioactive debris removal

Flags of Taiwan and US are placed for a meeting between US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce speaks and with Su Chia-chyuan, President of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan March 27, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo
Asia

Responding to Trump invasion comments, Taiwan says must rely on itself for security

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a Choe Hyon-class destroyer, in North Korea, August 18, 2025, in this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency. Photo: KCNA via REUTERS
Asia

North Korea's Kim calls for rapid nuclear buildup

Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar (left) and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. File Photo: Collected
World+Biz

China's foreign minister arrives in India amid Trump's tariff war

Gul Rasheed, 60, inspects a damaged car following a storm that caused heavy rains and flooding, in Bayshonai Kalay, Buner district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, August 17, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
World+Biz

Over 150 still missing after deadly flash floods in Northwestern Pakistan