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Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's Congress party, made an emotional appeal to voters in the family borough, asking them to vote for her son in a region that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party have dominated in the last ten years.
TAIPEI — Taiwan's next president, Lai Ching-te, will pledge to secure stability by maintaining the status quo in the island's relationship with China in his inauguration speech on Monday (May 20), an incoming senior security official said.
MANILA — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Saturday (May 18) the country will "vigorously defend what is ours", in a thinly veiled reference to mounting tensions with China over maritime disputes.
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered accelerated production to strengthen the country's nuclear force more rapidly, on the same day he oversaw a test of tactical ballistic missiles with new guidance system, state media KCNA said on Saturday (May 18).
STOCKHOLM — Swedish police have detained several people and cordoned off an area in Stockholm after a patrol heard suspected gunshots, they said on Friday (May 17), with the Israeli embassy located in the closed-off area.
HANOI — Vietnam forfeited at least US$2.5 billion (S$3.36 billion) in foreign aid over the last three years and may lose another US$1 billion because of administrative paralysis, the United Nations, the World Bank and Western donors told the government in a letter seen by Reuters.
JAKARTA — Tycoon Elon Musk, the owner of SpaceX, is scheduled to visit Indonesia to launch its satellite unit Starlink this Sunday (May 19), according to two cabinet ministers.
TAIPEI — Lai Ching-te takes office as Taiwan's president on May 20, facing a China that calls him a "dangerous separatist" and has ramped up military drills, as well as a fractured parliament at home where no party has a majority.