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The Pentagon is urging Japan and Australia to clarify what role they would play if the US and China went to war over Taiwan, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. — AFP pic

Pentagon pushes Japan and Australia for clarity on Taiwan defense roles amid China tensions

A Thai soldier guards a river crossing between Thailand and Myanmar in the border town of Mae Sot in Tak province on October 29, 2020. — AFP pic

Over 500 Myanmar soldiers, civilians flee into Thailand after assault by ethnic fighters on military base

President Lee Jae-myung said Saturday that he hopes citizens would join a move to dine out as part of efforts to boost domestic demand, Yonhap News Agency reported. — Picture via X/Lee Jae-myung

President Lee urges citizens to dine out to boost South Korea’s economy

Cambodian students pay their respect at a memorial for the victims of the Khmer Rouge regime at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh July 12, 2025. — AFP pic

Cambodian genocide sites Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek earn Unesco World Heritage status

A view shows the sinking of what is said to be the Liberia-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier, MV Magic Seas that was, according to Yemen's Houthis, attacked following an alleged exchange with the captain, off southwest Yemen, in this screen grab taken from a handout video released on July 8, 2025. — Reuters

‘All crew Muslim’: Red Sea ships signal nationality and religion in desperate bid to avoid Houthi drone strikes

Iranian cross a street next to a billboard bearing the portrait of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a quote reads in Persian 'Sing Oh Iran' at the Enqelab Square in Tehran on July, 9, 2025. — AFP pic

Iran carries out public execution of man convicted of raping, murdering girl after victim’s family calls for justice

Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since the military ousted a democratic government in 2021. — AFP pic

Myanmar air strike kills 22, including children, at monastery sheltering displaced civilians

Israeli troops deploy by Israel's border fence with the Gaza Strip on July 10, 2025, amid the ongoing war with the Palestinian militant movement Hamas. — AFP pic

Gaza truce talks stall as Israel insists on keeping military forces in 40pc of territory, refuses full pullout

A demonstrator draped in a Mexican flag gestures at U.S. federal agents blocking a road leading to an agricultural facility where U.S. federal agents and immigration officers carried out an operation, in Camarillo, California, U.S., July 10, 2025. — Reuters pic

One critically injured, 200 arrested in California cannabis farm raid by ICE as Trump calls protestors ‘slimeballs’

According to the United States, 700 people are still imprisoned for taking part in the July 2021 protests in Cuba. — AFP

US sanctions Cuban president Diaz-Canel for ‘regime’s brutality’ during mass protests, bans new Havana hotel

A sticker in opposition to Elon Musk is affixed on a wall in Paris, France, March 17, 2025. — Reuters pic

French police investigate Musk’s X over alleged algorithm abuse and data fraud

Delegates attend the 15th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' meeting during the 58th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers? meeting and related meetings at the Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur on July 11, 2025. — AFP pic

Asean warns South China Sea tensions rising over land reclamation, urges restraint and faster Code of Conduct talks

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends the 15th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' meeting during the 58th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' meeting and related meetings at the Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur on July 11, 2025. — AFP pic

China urges US to adopt ‘rational and pragmatic’ stance, calls for constructive ties in KL meeting

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi during the 58th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' meeting and related meetings at the Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur on July 11, 2025. — Reuters pic

US-China tensions ease slightly after ‘positive’ Rubio-Wang meeting in KL, but no breakthrough yet

A man embraces a woman as she cries during a sendoff event for U.S. State Department workers in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 11, 2025. — Reuters pic

The purge begins: Trump fires 1,300 State Dept staff in sweeping cuts, critics warn of ‘catastrophic blow’ to US diplomacy

Palestinians walk to collect aid supplies from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. — Reuters pic

UN slams Israel as 10 more Palestinians killed seeking aid in Gaza, nearly 800 deaths at relief sites since May