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Southeast Asian nations start summit, aiming to tackle energy crisis

While supply chain woes sparked by the US-Israeli attack on Iran may dominate talks, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, now 11 strong with the addition of Timor-Leste, has a still-raging civil war in its own backyard.

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A Japan’s Type 88 surface-to-ship missile system is launched during the maritime strike of Balikatan exercise in Paoay, Ilocos Norte on May 6, 2026.

Japan fires missiles during drills, drawing China rebuke

Japan fired surface-to-ship missiles and sank an old warship in waters between the Philippines and Taiwan as part of major military exercises that include US forces, angering China.

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Energy crisis front and center as ASEAN leaders start summit

Conflicts far beyond Southeast Asia are expected to dominate discussions of leaders of the regional ASEAN bloc meeting in the Philippines, with the Middle East crisis posing significant challenges for its fuel import-dependent economies.

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Japan plans early transfer of warships and aircraft to Philippines

The two countries' shared grievances over Chinese territorial claims have seen them draw increasingly close in recent years, including the signing of a reciprocal access agreement allowing for the deployment of troops on each other's territory.

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Pope names former undocumented migrant as US bishop of West Virginia

Trump and the pontiff have been at odds over US immigration enforcement and the US-Israeli war against Iran.

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FCC reviewing Disney's ABC station licenses after Jimmy Kimmel joke

The standoff between President Donald Trump's administration and the global entertainment conglomerate is the first crisis facing Walt Disney’s new CEO Josh D’Amaro.

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'Looming' risk of nuclear arms race, UN proliferation meeting hears

The nine nuclear-armed states – Russia, the US, France, the UK, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea – possessed 12,241 nuclear warheads as of January 2025, SIPRI reported.

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Trump shooting scare renews 'staged' conspiracy theory

Americans on both sides of the political divide are prone to outlandish conspiracy theories, as many turn to partisan influencers for information amid mistrust of mainstream media, researchers say.

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Attendees are seen inside the ballroom after shots were reportedly fired during the White House Correspondents' dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2026. Shots were allegedly fired as United States President Donald Trump attended a press dinner in Washington on Saturday night, witnesses and AFP reporters said as loud bangs were heard at the hotel venue.

'Get down!' Panic and chaos at Washington's glitzy media gala

Trump was seated on the stage at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner, the first time he attended as president, when loud bangs disrupted the revelry and caused him and others to look up in alarm.

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Crunch nuclear proliferation meeting at UN amid raging global wars

The nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), signed by almost all the countries on the planet, with notable exceptions like Israel, India, and Pakistan, aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, to promote complete disarmament, and to encourage cooperation on civilian nuclear projects.

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Trump evacuated from press dinner in Washington after shots reportedly fired

Trump administration officials appeared to have been evacuated first and uncertainty remained as to what exactly happened.

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Dutch hantavirus victims visited Chile, Uruguay, Argentina before cruise

The ministry said that the husband-and-wife couple arrived in Argentina on November 27, then traveled to Chile and Uruguay before returning to Argentina on March 27 to board the MV Hondius on April 1.

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Virus-hit cruise ship heads for Spain as evacuees land in Europe

A cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will reach the Spanish island of Tenerife "within three days", with the evacuation of passengers to start from May 11, Spain said Wednesday.

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Trump says cutting US troop numbers in Germany 'way down'

The Pentagon announced the 5,000-troop reduction on Friday, but Trump told reporters Saturday "we're going to cut way down, and we're cutting a lot further than 5,000." He did not elaborate.

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NATO, top Republicans question US troop withdrawal from Germany

The Pentagon's announcement of the troop withdrawal follows a spat between US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said on Monday that Iran was "humiliating" Washington at the negotiating table.

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A sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in this photo taken on Dec. 7, 2021.

Gridlock as pandemic treaty talks fail to finish

Wealthy countries and developing nations are at loggerheads over how the pandemic treaty, which was adopted last year, will work in practice.

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Italy's parliament backs donation of aircraft carrier to Indonesia

A parliamentary report said transferring the carrier to Indonesia would save Italy maintenance costs estimated at around 5 million euros only for last year or the nearly 19 million euros required for dismantling.

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Babcock International Group chief executive officer David Lockwood (second left) and United Kingdom Ambassador to Jakarta Dominic Jermey (second right) display Memorandum of Understanding documents on April 23, flanked by Indonesian Maritime Affairs and Fishery Minister Sakti Wahyu Trenggono (left) and UK Aviation, Maritime and Decarbonization Minister Keir Mather in Jakarta. The MoU provides Babcock/Chevening Scholarships for 30 recipients in three years, as part of the UK-Indonesia Maritime Partnership Program which was launched during the event.

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UK, Indonesia launch maritime partnership by signing 4 MOUs

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Activists from the Global Sumud aid flotilla stand at the port of Atherinolakkos on May 1 on the island of Crete after disembarking from a Greek Coast Guard vessel, following their interception by the Israeli Navy in international waters.

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Indonesia joins international condemnation of Gaza flotilla interception

Trump sees swift end to war as Iran reviews US peace proposal

US President Donald Trump predicted a swift end to the war with Iran as Tehran considered a US peace proposal that sources said would formally end the conflict while leaving unresolved key US demands that Iran suspend its nuclear program and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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A motorist rides a motorcycle while a man walks past the Alameh Tabatabaei high school, which was destroyed by a US-Isareli airstrike during the war, in Tehran on May 3, 2026.

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Indonesia urges restraint as Iran-US tensions spill into UAE

US and Iran closing in on memorandum to end war

The Pakistani source said a report earlier by the US media outlet Axios on the proposed memorandum was accurate. The Axios report had cited two US officials and two other sources familiar with the discussions.

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A general view of the cruise ship MV Hondius, while stationary off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on May 6, 2026.

Evacuations 'ongoing' from hantavirus-hit cruise ship off Cape Verde

Three people -- two crew members and one other person -- thought to be infected with the virus were being taken off the MV Hondius, anchored off Cape Verde, the WHO said.

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Iran's Araqchi holds talks with Wang Yi in Beijing

Araqchi's visit, announced by state news agency Xinhua, is his first trip to China since the US-Israeli war on Iran set off the most severe global oil supply shock in history and undermined the energy security of China, the world's top crude importer.

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