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US President Donald Trump and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea stand for a photograph at a reception for Trump on the Gyeongju Nationwide Museum in North Gyeongsang Province forward of their summit on Oct. 29, 2025. (pool photograph) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and US President Donald Trump reached a dramatic conclusion of their commerce negotiations at a bilateral summit on Wednesday.This growth is lucky in that it clears away uncertainties swirling round difficulties throughout the previous three months of follow-up negotiations to the 2 sides’ broader settlement reached in late July. Even so, the phrases of…

Robots manufacture auto elements at a manufacturing facility in Ningde, China, on Oct. 17, 2024.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty PhotosChina’s manufacturing facility exercise development in October missed market expectations, dragged down by a sharper drop in new export orders, as commerce tensions with the U.S. intensified through the month, in response to a personal survey launched Monday.The RatingDog China Normal Manufacturing PMI, compiled by S&P International, dropped to 50.6 in October from the six-month excessive of 51.2 in September, lacking analysts’ expectations of fifty.9 in a Reuters ballot.New export orders fell on the quickest tempo since Might, which the survey…

President Lee Jae Myung’s approval score rebounded for the primary time in three weeks, pushed by optimistic sentiment over a lately finalized tariff take care of america, a survey confirmed Monday.In accordance with the survey by Realmeter commissioned by an area information outlet, 53 % gave a optimistic evaluation of Lee’s job efficiency, up 1.8 share factors from the earlier week.Destructive evaluation of Lee fell 1.6 share factors to 43.3 %.Realmeter attributed the rebound to Lee’s pragmatic diplomatic achievements, together with finishing a tariff take care of U.S. President Donald Trump at their summit on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific…

A launch ceremony is held for the KSS-III Batch-II ROKS Jang Yeong-sil submarine at Hanwha Ocean’s Geoje yard on Oct. 22, 2025. (courtesy of the ROK Navy) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung publicly requested US President Donald Trump on Wednesday to “make a dedication” to permit provides of gas for nuclear-powered submarines to South Korea.With Trump expressing settlement about South Korea’s want for nuclear submarines, the 2 sides plan to pursue follow-up discussions.The 2 leaders additionally agreed to pursue discussions on amending their atomic power settlement to permit South Korea to complement a specific amount of uranium and reprocess…

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A outstanding opposition lawmaker was set to face his first trial continuing Monday over allegations he accepted unlawful political funds from a former official from the Unification Church in alternate for favors.Rep. Kweon Seong-dong of the primary opposition Folks Energy Occasion (PPP) has been arrested and indicted on fees of receiving 100 million ($69,870) in violation of the political fund regulation from a former Unification Church official in January 2022.Kweon was allegedly requested to assist the church acquire varied favors from the federal government after the presidential election of then PPP candidate Yoon Suk Yeol, who later received the presidency…

US President Donald Trump delivers a keynote on the APEC CEO summit held on the Gyeongju Arts Middle within the metropolis on Oct. 29, 2025. (pool photograph) South Korea and the US have concluded tariff negotiations, marking a turning level in an intense and carefully watched standoff that began when the 2 events reached a tentative settlement in late July. The deal is the results of a substantial quantity of give-and-take between the 2 sides: limiting the money funding portion of the US$350 billion package deal to US$200 billion, securing reductions on auto tariffs, and acquiring duty-free advantages for prescribed…

Palestinian political factions are holding closed-door discussions that might see Hamas play a job in shaping a postwar administration in Gaza, regardless of Israel’s vow to get rid of the militant group’s political affect within the enclave and a decades-old feud between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

Protection Minister Ahn Gyu-back and U.S. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth had been set to go to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the 2 Koreas on Monday, officers mentioned, a day forward of their annual safety talks.Their deliberate go to to the Joint Safety Space (JSA) contained in the DMZ is a part of the Pentagon chief’s two-day go to to South Korea, in his first journey to South Korea, which is the final leg of his Asia swing that features stops in Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam.It could mark the primary joint go to to the JSA by the allies’ protection…

US President Donald Trump boards Air Power One at Gimhae Worldwide Airport in Busan on Oct. 30, 2025, after wrapping up a two-day journey to South Korea. (AP/Yonhap) US President Donald Trump introduced that China has agreed to droop its export controls on uncommon earths for one 12 months, whereas the US will decrease its tariffs on China by 10 share factors.“All of the uncommon earths [issue] has been settled, and that’s for the world,” Trump instructed reporters Thursday as he flew again to the US aboard Air Power One following his assembly with Chinese language President Xi Jinping at…