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A police officer with a dog searching for people under the rubble of a five-storey residential building following a Russian attack that killed seven people, including three children, in Zaporizhzhia, on Saturday. Photo: AFP
Ukraine war

Russian attacks kill 17 in Ukraine after Trump-Putin diesel deal

The diesel deal contrasted a sweeping Russia sanctions law Trump signed last month to clamp down on Russia’s oil and gas revenues.

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Australia

Australia says it won’t buy Russian fuel despite Trump’s diesel deal with Putin

US midterm elections 2026

Trump announces diesel deal with Russia ahead of US midterm elections next month

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Mainland China

Video | Russia’s ‘plague’ scare: should you worry?

Speculation is swirling on social media platforms globally and Chinese commenters are among those raising concerns.

SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGE Royalty-free stock photo ID: 242816119 Yersinia pestis bacteria which caused Bubonic Plague. 1965.
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Arctic

Why a ‘confrontational posture’ won’t help China in the Arctic

Chinese think tank says Beijing ‘still has considerable policy space’ in the region after US, Denmark and Greenland sign new security pact.

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Science

Russia lifts plague lab-related quarantine measures. Should China be relieved?

Moscow says the incident is over but questions remain among Chinese commenters and others on social media globally.

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US-China relations

Opinion | US-Japan-Poland strategic triangle can encourage a ‘peaceful war’

The catalyst for this new architecture of deterrence in an age of fragmented interdependence lies less in China than in Russia.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov on his right and Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov on his left at the Tsentr-2026 military exercises at the Chebarkulsky training ground in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia on October 2. Photo: Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
Japan

Japan angry after ‘unjust’ Russia wants ICC chief targeted by US extradited

Tokyo condemned Moscow’s move against Tomoko Akane and eight other officials, pledging to ‘take the appropriate path of action’.

2026 Xi-Trump summits

Xi Jinping meets foreign leaders: tracker, September 2026

Chinese President Xi Jinping visits US and India and prepares to meet US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the Apec summit.

Ukraine war

Zelensky accuses US of inaction as Russian strikes kill nearly 80 in 2 days

Ukraine seeks expanded Starlink satellite access to boost air defences as Rubio says war is at a stalemate.

Rescuers and residents carry an injured man from a residential building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Pryluky, Ukraine. Photo: AP
US-China relations

Hong Kong rejects US downgrade to lowest tier in human trafficking report

US cites declining prosecutions and failure to identify victims exploited in Hong Kong; city rejects downgrade as ‘entirely unfounded’.

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The US State Department’s 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report has downgraded Hong Kong to the lowest ranking in its annual human trafficking study. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Britain

UK navy sailor charged with spying for Russia

Teddy Young, 24, is accused of obtaining secret information with a view to giving it to a foreign power.

Ukraine war

At least 33 dead in Russian bomb blast in east Ukraine stronghold

Authorities describe it as a targeted strike on civilians in the city of Kramatorsk.

China-EU relations

US, EU forge ‘multilateral coalition’ against China’s industrial surge

As US rallies most G20 members to pressure Beijing on overcapacity, experts warn China could retaliate.

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US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer speaks at the G20 Trade Ministerial Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 1. Photo: AFP
India

India aims to anchor military ties with US as Indo-Pacific ‘resident power’

Despite trade tensions, a top US naval officer’s New Delhi visit signals that Washington remains keen to anchor India as a security partner.

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Ships sailing in the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean as part of the 2020 Malabar naval exercise involving India, the US, Australia and Japan. Photo: Indian Navy/AFP
China-Russia relations

Kremlin aide visits China amid speculation about potential Xi-Putin-Trump meeting

Nikolai Patrushev will hold maritime talks, but his trip is being watched for signs that a summit is planned for November.

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South Korea

South Korea to recall ambassador from Ukraine amid POW dispute

The two countries have been at loggerheads since Zelensky disclosed the transfer of the prisoners captured on the battlefield early last year.

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China energy security

Energy importers like China leading shift to clean energy: report

Clean capacity grows three times faster across China, India and Europe than in Middle East, North America and Russia, DNV says.

Construction of a tidal flat solar energy project is seen in Lianyungang, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, on September 15, 2026. Photo: AFP
Laos

Why China’s new air force base in Laos could rattle Vietnam

Hanoi likely to view the Ban Keun facility as Beijing’s bid to ‘encroach into its area of influence’ in Vientiane, analysts say.

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Middle East

Opinion | Can the Gulf aviation superhub model survive the war?

The problem is not that war disrupts flights, but that this time, the hubs of Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi have become part of the battlefield.

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China-EU relations

‘No more dumping, no more spying’: European Parliament hardens line on China

Report calls Beijing an ‘existential threat’ to industry and urges naval exercises around Taiwan Strait.

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On Wednesday, European lawmakers voted to adopt a stronger position on China, accusing it of enabling Russia in the Ukraine war and urging swift action on the “existential threat” of China’s industrial policy. Photo: EPA
History

Russia glosses over Stalin-era repression in reinvented museum

The ‘Museum of Memory’, which has elbowed out the Gulag History Museum, is set up to commemorate the ‘genocide of the Soviet people’.

Visitors attend a guided tour at the Museum of Memory in Moscow on August 12. Photo: AFP
China energy security

China curbs fuel exports amid record global diesel prices

An October pause in Chinese shipments of refined oil products may worsen global supply shortages caused by refinery shutdowns in the Middle East and Russia.

Ukraine war

Russian strikes kill 24 across Ukraine after Zelensky warning

Russian missiles and drones hit residential and civilian sites in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.

Disease

Russia says no risk of epidemic following plague institute worker’s death

Russia’s health watchdog says it is winding down precautionary measures it put in place and has shared its latest information with the WHO.

The Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East, in the city of Irkutsk. Photo: AFP
India

Why India is getting serious about ending the Ukraine war

US tariff threats and drone strikes on an Indian-owned factory are pushing Delhi to shift from passive advocacy to active peacemaking.

A Russian drone strike damaged a manufacturing facility belonging to Indian pharmaceutical firm Kusum Group in Ukraine on Sunday morning, killing one person and injuring several others. Photo: Instagram/kusum.ukraine
Ukraine war

Ukraine attacks Moscow region with 650 drones as both sides step up strikes

Russian state media calls overnight assault the second-largest on the capital area in two years.

China's military weapons

Turkmenistan grows its arsenal of Chinese air defences as Russia’s role shrinks

Amid regional instability, Central Asian nations look beyond Moscow for arms as the war in Ukraine drains Russian stocks.

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