Australia has taken part in the world’s largest naval training exercise with its Pacific neighbours, combining to curb the threat of further Chinese militarisation in the region.

Rescuers frantically searched for survivors on Wednesday, a day ​after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook southern Japan, killing at least 13 people, knocking out power to thousands of homes and rupturing roads across the region.

The Trump administration on Tuesday unveiled bans that target imports of new Chinese robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the U.S. AI buildout from national ​security threats and reshore key industries slated for explosive growth.

A drone hit a U.S.-owned gas storage tanker at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta.

Iran is expected to receive within weeks a first shipment out of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defence missile launchers, three sources familiar with the deal told ​Reuters, as it rebuilds its defences amid war with the United States.

Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president, becoming the latest in a string of conservative leaders elected ‌across Latin America by voters frustrated by crime, weak economic growth and political instability.

A Guatemalan man deported from the U.S. and his wife, ‌who recently self-deported to join him, were found dead in a sugarcane field in southwestern Guatemala, authorities said.

The United Nations Security Council will hold an initial round of ‌informal closed-door “straw poll” ballots to assess support for the seven candidates currently vying to become the next head of the United Nations.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed ​reviving peace talks with Russia and plans for Ukraine to produce Patriot missile interceptors, then attended the funeral of a U.S. senator who had been one of ‌Kyiv’s most vocal backers.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least 13 people near the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto and rescuers are frantically searching for survivors ​trapped beneath the rubble, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said.

France was bracing for its fourth major heatwave of the year, as soaring temperatures ​and tinder-dry conditions across the southwest piled pressure on crews battling a giant ‌wildfire in the Bordeaux region.

Michigan health officials reported 9,253 cases of cyclosporiasis on Monday, an increase of 1,077 cases since their last ​update on Friday, as the intestinal infection outbreak grows.