Shinzo Abe murder trial opens with gunman pleading guilty to killing ex-Japanese PM
Pacific Asia • Oct 28, 2025, 6:45 AM
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Three years after the assassination of Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe shocked the world, the murder trial opened Tuesday with the suspect pleading guilty. "Everything is true," Tetsuya Yamagami told a court in the western city of Nara, admitting the murder of the country's longest-serving leader in July 2022.
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Donald Trump visits South Korea for summit ahead of US-Chinese talks
Pacific Asia • 10:45 AM
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It's been a busy week for the US president. After signing deals with South-East Asian nations in Malaysia on October 26 and a rare earths and nuclear agreement with Japan's new Prime Minister on October 28, Trump arrived in South Korea for the Asia-Pacif
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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to meet in South Korea amid trade war
Pacific Asia • 10:20 AM
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US and Chinese negotiators have both confirmed a "framework" has been agreed leading up to Trump and Xi's first face-to-face meeting during the US president's second term. The October 29 meeting might yield a truce in the trade war between the world's to
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Trump arrives in South Korea ahead of highly anticipated meeting with China's Xi
Pacific Asia • 8:39 AM
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US President Donald Trump arrived in South Korea on Wednesday ahead of a highly-anticipated meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Trump said he expected “a lot of problems to be solved” during their first face-to-face meeting in six years, implying tha
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