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China asks India to contain new border friction and protect recent thaw
Beijing invokes bilateral understandings after new stand-offs in the disputed frontier threaten to reverse improvements in relations.
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China
Beijing invokes bilateral understandings after new stand-offs in the disputed frontier threaten to reverse improvements in relations.
Asia
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Middle East
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Global
Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya asked to leave all party posts after the opposition alleged that she and her husband turned a 163 million-lira investment into about 2.17 billion lira before a market selloff.
China
Beijing called for a positive agenda and controlled differences as reciprocal trade restrictions test the fragile truce reached by the two presidents in May.
India
Ajit Doval and Wang Yi used their 25th special-representatives meeting to link wider normalization with peace along the disputed frontier and renewed cross-border exchanges.
China
Wang Yi and Cho Hyun paired possible leader-level talks with plans for travel, trade, supply-chain and cultural cooperation, while Seoul pressed Beijing on North Korea.
Middle East
An indefinite halt to trade and financial transactions cuts a major commercial gateway for Iran as missile alarms, tanker attacks and restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz intensify.
China
Undersea devices, missile tests, naval drills, cyber activity and technology controls form a widening pattern of pressure as regional states balance cooperation with stronger defenses.
Middle East
Washington's contacts with Vienna and Athens were followed by calls to Tehran, broadening an uneven diplomatic search for a way out of the war and the Strait of Hormuz crisis.
Russia
The Russian president said annual inflation had eased to 8.8 percent by the end of July 2025 and could reach 6 to 7 percent by year-end, while warning that both recorded and concealed unemployment were beginning to rise.
China
Beijing opened a national-security trade investigation, tightened controls on drone exports, restricted seven US entities and suspended American certification inspections after actions by the FCC and Homeland Security.