Vietnam’s top leader To Lam will visit the Philippines next week, Manila said, as President Ferdinand ​Marcos Jr seeks to further strengthen his country’s ‌regional alliances and security partnerships.

As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran, senior SpaceX officials reached a conclusion: The Pentagon should be paying more for access to their satellite Wi-Fi network.

Iran said the United States had violated a ceasefire ​by striking targets near the contested Strait of Hormuz, potentially complicating efforts to bring the war to a close.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree providing debt relief to new Ukraine war recruits and their families, ​the Kremlin said, adding to ‌support tools as Moscow seeks to boost its army in more than four-year-long war.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said negotiating a deal with Iran could “take a few days,” quashing hopes for an imminent end to the conflict ​a day after U.S. forces conducted what Washington called defensive strikes in southern Iran.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco ​Rubio said ‌that the Strait of Hormuz has ​to be open, “one ​way or the other”, ⁠when referring to ​U.S strikes on ​Iran on Monday.

Foreign ministers from Australia, India, Japan and the U.S. will meet in New Delhi ​in an effort to regain momentum in the Indo-Pacific-focused group known as the Quad that critics say has slowed under President ‌Donald Trump.

Cambodia’s king has pardoned former opposition leader Kem Sokha for a treason conviction, just weeks ​after he lost an appeal to overturn that verdict, according to a ‌royal decree released.

Taiwan sent ships and fighter jets to monitor the second Chinese “joint combat readiness patrol” in a week near the island, as ​Taipei steps up its guard over Beijing’s activities.

Farmers across Sudan say the hike in global fuel and fertilizer costs resulting from the Iran conflict will force them to cut back on planting this summer, ​restricting food production in a country where war has caused acute hunger.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday ​that he asked Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and Jordan to join the Abraham Accords en masse to normalize relations with ‌Israel as he tries to negotiate an agreement to end the war with Iran.

Catholic popes have been urging global leaders to address social justice issues for 135 ​years across some two dozen major documents that many of the world’s 1.4-billion-faithful can cite by their two- or three-word titles.