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A longtime aide to outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, said he would run for leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to avoid a political vacuum [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization. The strain of the virus has no approved vaccine [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

South Korea will pursue all options, including emergency arbitration, to avoid a major labor strike at the country's biggest employer Samsung Electronics, and to minimize any damage if one does occur, its prime minister said [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Shares of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix surged after peer Samsung Electronics forecast market-beating quarterly earnings, fueling expectations [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

South Korea's SK Hynix set a record for quarterly profit with a five-fold jump in earnings, easing concerns about slowing AI spending by big tech firms [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Robot monks joined South Korea's Lotus Lantern Festival parade celebrating Buddha's birthday, marching alongside traditional participants in Seoul [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

US President Trump left China with no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end the Iran war, despite two days spent heaping praise on his host, Xi Jinping [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Philippine lawmakers voted to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte, sending her case to the Senate for trial and potentially ending her 2028 presidential hopes [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record closing highs, bolstered by optimism for possible negotiations between the US and Iran to end the war and a surge in Intel shares that extended the rally in semiconductor stocks [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

South Korean stocks rebounded as the country’s benchmark Kospi stock index was up over 2% by mid-afternoon. It recovered most of the previous day’s drop, when the index sank past one-year lows [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Shares of Hyundai Motor surged by as much as 14.9% to hit a record high in morning trade, outperforming the benchmark KOSPI's 1.2% gain amid market speculation about a potential deeper tie-up with Nvidia [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

South Korea’s retail investors, known locally as 'ants,' have doubled down on the stock market despite its sharpest swings on record amid mounting economic and geopolitical uncertainty [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

South Korea's first humanoid robot monk made its debut at Jogye Temple in Seoul, ahead of Buddha's birthday. Gabi, the 130-centimeter-tall robot, wore a traditional grey-and-brown Buddhist robe and stood before monks as it pledged to devote itself to Buddhism [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

US President Trump discussed measures with oil executives to mitigate the impact of a potential months-long US blockade of Iran's ports, according to a White House official [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Apple named longtime hardware boss John Ternus as its next CEO. The tech giant said the senior vice president of hardware engineering will take over September 1 while Tim Cook will stay on as executive chairman [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Dozens of American veterans and military family members were detained after they started protesting the Iran war inside a congressional office building in Washington DC [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Speaking with reporters, Trump said the US will have the Strait of Hormuz 'open fairly soon' as a US team led by Vance heads to Pakistan for negotiations [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Israel launched its heaviest strikes yet on Lebanon, killing over 250 people, most of them in Beirut, as a two-week US-Iran ceasefire took effect, with Iran saying the intensified attacks made negotiations with Washington 'unreasonable' [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

A missile struck a market in Tel Aviv following a barrage of missiles that launched from Iran as the war rages on [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Moments before the Air Canada crash, an air traffic controller can be heard saying: "Stop, stop, stop, truck one stop, truck one, stop." Find out more here ➡️ [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Israeli emergency and rescue units worked at a site in Kafr Qassem, near Tel Aviv, after apparent debris from an Iranian missile fell onto the area [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Police and emergency responders gathered at a site in Tel Aviv that sustained damage after Iran launched waves of missiles at the country, according to the Israeli military [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Rockets and at least five drones were launched at the US embassy in Baghdad from areas around the city, Iraqi security sources said, describing the attack as the most intense since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran [ 网页链接 ↗ ] [ 网页链接 ↗ ]