Despite the parade of lofty promises, observers are raising concerns that many of the proposals lack practical details.

Kashmiri students in some Indian states were allegedly asked to leave their rented apartments or hostels.

Trade Minister Nguyen Hong Dien and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer spoke over the phone.

BEIJING - China and Kenya announced they had upgraded ties to a "new level" on Thursday during a meeting between President Xi Jinping and Kenyan President William Ruto in Beijing, as they both pledged to create an "all weather" China-Africa community.

TAIPEI - Taiwan's premier on Thursday proposed another $10 billion in spending as a special budget to help the economy deal with the impact of U.S. tariffs.

WASHINGTON - Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato on Wednesday urged G20 counterparts to cooperate in stabilising markets, warning that U.S. tariffs and countermeasures taken by some countries were hurting global growth and destabilising financial markets.

SEOUL - South Korea's data protection authority said on Thursday that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek transferred user information and prompts without permission when the service was still available for download in the country's app market.

MUMBAI - India has summoned the top Pakistani diplomat in New Delhi, local media reported on Thursday, a day after it announced measures to downgrade ties with Islamabad as relations between the nuclear-armed rivals plummeted following a deadly militant attack in Kashmir.

The US said it will cooperate fully with Japanese authorities in the investigations.

SYDNEY - Australia will hold an election on May 3, and energy security has become a key issue as voters face rising power bills and the prospect of gas shortages.

Hanoi, like much of the rest of the world, has been hit with a blanket 10 per cent tariff.

They include trade balance, tariffs, shipbuilding, energy cooperation, and military cost sharing.

China said the structure was fish-farming equipment and had nothing to do with territorial rights.

The salary Moons son-in-law received as an executive director was irregular and constituted a bribe to the then-president.

The stimulus measures should include soft loans to local exporters, subsidies for farmers and financial aid to Thai industries.

BEIJING - China supports Iran holding talks on its nuclear program with the United States and opposes the use of force and \"illegal\" unilateral sanctions to try to resolve the issue, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday.

The militants asked the men their names before shooting them at close range.

Mr Xi said China would announce its new goals before climate talks in Belem in November.

NARAYANGANJ, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh's limited capacity to deal with the enormous waste generated by its textile sector may prove unsustainable as the global fashion industry faces pressure to reduce its environmental footprint.

DILI, East Timor - A devout Roman Catholic couple in East Timor has seen firsthand two popes visit their tiny Asian country and now they are praying they may witness another, once a successor is picked to replace Pope Francis.

SHANGHAI - The chief designer of China's lunar exploration programme accused the United States on Wednesday of interfering in Beijing's attempts to cooperate with Europe and other foreign partners in space programmes.

Kashmir Resistance, also known as The Resistance Front, has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, the deadliest incident of its kind in India since the 2008 shootings in Mumbai.

BISHKEK - Kyrgyz security services have detained four people, including an employee of a Russian government agency, on suspicion of recruiting Kyrgyz citizens to fight in the Russian army, officials said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - Talks continue between the U.S. and China on tackling the fentanyl epidemic amid the bitter trade war between the worlds two largest economies, four U.S. officials familiar with the discussions told Reuters, even as American negotiators claim the Chinese are failing to negotiate in good faith.

Twenty-six people were killed and 17 were injured when suspected militants opened fire at tourists in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory on Tuesday, the worst such attack in the country in nearly two decades.

SRINAGAR - Images and videos of gunshots ringing out in a meadow, bloodied bodies lying on the ground, and people fleeing across a dry river bed have shattered Kashmir's emergence as India's new tourism hotspot.

The ruling party is still mired in internal conflict between supporters and detractors of Yoon.

NEW DELHI - At least 26 people died and 17 others were injured when suspected militants opened fire at a popular tourist spot in the Pahalgam region of India's Jammu and Kashmir territory this week.

DUBAI - New U.S. sanctions against Iran's energy sector point to Washington's \"lack of goodwill and seriousness\" over dialogue with Tehran, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday ahead of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks this weekend.

SEOUL - South Korea will raise China's construction of sea structures off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula in a dialogue with Beijing on Wednesday, Seoul's Foreign Minister said.

SHANGHAI - China is considering building a nuclear plant on the moon to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) it is planning with Russia, a presentation by a senior official showed on Wednesday.

PRAGUE - Four Czech soldiers will face trial for alleged crimes relating to the death of an Afghan soldier after he was detained and interrogated in 2018, Czech prosecutors said on Tuesday.

MANILA - The Philippines is set to receive its second batch of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles from India, its defence secretary said on Wednesday, which should bolster the country's coastal defence capabilities amid escalating tensions with China.

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that tariff and trade wars undermine the legitimate rights and interests of all countries, hurt the multilateral trading system and impact the world economic order, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Mr Xi made the comments during a meeting with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in Beijing.

He was also charged with generating explicit content involving a 17-year-old by editing her photos into pornographic images.

Cambodia should share a feasibility study on the impact of a planned China- backed canal that would divert water from the rice-growing floodplains of Vietnam's Mekong Delta, said the body overseeing the transnational river.

SYDNEY - Australia's conservative opposition party leader Peter Dutton, trailing in polls related to the May 3 election, has pledged to boost defence spending to 3% of gross domestic product within a decade, as the Trump administration pushes allies to spend more on security.

SRINAGAR, India - Twenty-six people were killed and 17 were injured when suspected militants opened fire at tourists in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory, police said on Wednesday, the worst such attack in the country in nearly two decades.