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October 31, 2025 4:39 PM

APEC official says member countries working hard for consensus on trade

Most Asia-Pacific countries want and are heading in the direction of free and open trade, a senior official at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) secretariat said, as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs overshadowed the forum's annual sum...

October 31, 2025 4:27 PM

Andrew: The king’s brother who is no longer a British prince

Once widely reputed to be Queen Elizabeth's favourite son and feted as a dashing young military officer, Andrew will now be etched into the public memory as the royal who was accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl and lost his title of prince. B...

October 31, 2025 3:56 PM

As Trump skips APEC, China’s Xi fills the void with message on trade

As Air Force One took off from South Korea's Busan airport after U.S.-China talks on Thursday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping's Hongqi N701 limousine whisked him off to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit some 50 miles (80km) away. The split-scr...

October 31, 2025 3:34 PM

Houthis say 43 detained UN staff to face trial over Israeli attack

Forty-three detained local United Nations staff will face trial on suspicion of links to an Israeli airstrike that assassinated top Houthi leaders in August, the acting foreign minister of Yemen’s Houthi government, Abdulwahid Abu Ras, told Reuters...

October 31, 2025 3:30 PM

Taiwan does not want China’s ‘one country, two systems’, president says

Taiwan does not want China's "one country, two systems" and must uphold its freedom and democracy, and resolve to defend itself, President Lai Ching-te said on Friday, rejecting Beijing's latest push to get the island to come under Chinese control. ...

October 31, 2025 2:59 PM

Britain’s Andrew and the sex scandal that cost his royal titles, privileges

Britain's King Charles stripped younger brother Andrew of his title of prince and ordered him out of his royal home over renewed scrutiny after the release of a posthumous memoir by one of the most prominent accusers of late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey...

October 31, 2025 11:16 AM

Heavy rains in New York kill two, disrupt flights

Heavy rains lashed New York on Thursday, killing two people in the city, Mayor Eric Adams said, while accompanying storms disrupted flights and weather authorities warned of floods in some areas. Media have reported incidents of flooding and damage ...

October 31, 2025 11:12 AM

Vietnam flood death toll rises to 13, with 11 others missing

The death toll from the heavy floods in central Vietnam has risen to 13, the government said on Friday, as residents of the flooded Hoi An started clean-up operations as the water levels began to subside. Floods triggered by record levels of rainfal...

October 31, 2025 11:06 AM

Vance warns of US aviation ‘disaster’ if shutdown does not end

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday warned of a potential holiday meltdown if a government shutdown stretches into the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel season and urged Democrats to provide the votes to reopen the government. Vance said after a Whit...

October 31, 2025 11:03 AM

Trump calls for US Senate to scrap filibuster rule

Republican U.S. President Donald Trump called on Thursday for the removal of the Senate's filibuster rule, to bypass a Democratic roadblock during a government shutdown now in its 30th day. The filibuster is the Senate rule for agreement by 60 of it...

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