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1. Why experts say trade wins aren’t enough for Xi-Trump summit in May

   The coming summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump offers a window to stabilise bilateral ties through trade deals, but former diplomats and business figures have urged the leaders to move beyond commerce during their talks. At a forum held by the Centre for China and Globalisation (CCG) in Beijing on Sunday, analysts and former officials called on the...

2. China’s DeepSeek prices new V4 AI model at 97% below OpenAI’s GPT-5.5

   DeepSeek has slashed prices on its artificial intelligence models, including its latest V4 which now costs 97 per cent less than OpenAI products, potentially triggering a price war in the highly competitive AI market. DeepSeek said on Sunday that it would reduce prices for “input cache hits” – where previously processed context was reused – for application programming interface (API) users to...

3. ‘Looming’ risk of nuclear arms race, UN proliferation meeting hears

   Signatories of the landmark nuclear non-proliferation treaty began a meeting on Monday at the United Nations in New York as fears of a renewed arms race escalate, with atomic powers again at loggerheads over safeguards. In 2022, during the last review of the treaty considered the cornerstone of non-proliferation, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned humanity was “one misunderstanding,...

4. Without diplomacy, deterrence in Asia is a path to escalation

   “Balikatan 2026” is meant to reassure allies and deter adversaries. But the military exercise hosted by the Philippines also reveals a harsher truth: the Indo-Pacific is drifting into a security logic in which deterrence no longer contains risk but multiplies it. Every move taken in the name of stability now invites a countermove. Every display of resolve is answered by another. The result is...

5. Suspect in Washington dinner shooting charged with attempting to assassinate Trump

   The man accused of opening fire at a Washington dinner attended by Donald Trump was charged on Monday with attempting to assassinate the US president. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, could face a life sentence if convicted. Allen appeared in Washington federal court two days after authorities said they foiled an attack at the White House Correspondents’ ‌Association Dinner, an...

6. Man pleads guilty in the 2002 killing of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay

   Nearly 25 years after rap star Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC was killed, a man admitted in court on Monday to a role in the shooting that stymied investigators for decades. Jay Bryant pleaded guilty to a federal murder charge, telling a judge that he helped other people get into a recording studio to ambush the DJ, born Jason Mizell. “I knew a gun was going to be used to shoot Jason Mizell,” Bryant...

7. King Charles arrives in US for trip overshadowed by Iran quarrel and shooting

   Britain’s King Charles and ⁠Queen Camilla arrived in the United States on Monday afternoon for a four-day trip, a tour which has taken on even greater prominence after the White House Correspondents’ dinner shooting and amid acrimony between the close allies. The state visit, by far the most high-profile and consequential of Charles’ reign, marks the 250th anniversary of the US declaration of...

8. Hezbollah disarmament ‘must happen’, senior Lebanese minister tells US think tank

   Lebanon’s social affairs minister backed calls for the disarmament of Hezbollah but cautioned that the process would take time before a “political settlement” could be reached, calling the group a “community” and not merely a militant organisation. Haneen Sayed told a discussion on Monday that disarming Hezbollah – an Iran-backed militant group – was a demand of her government and its people,...

9. Trump demands immediate sacking of TV host Jimmy Kimmel over ‘despicable’ joke

   US ⁠President ⁠Donald Trump said on Monday that Jimmy ‌Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC, ⁠joining his wife ‌Melania Trump in calling ‌out the late-night talk ⁠show ⁠host for ‌a monologue he delivered ‌before a shooting ‌near a ⁠gathering of journalists ⁠and politicians over the weekend. Kimmel, in a parody of the White House Correspondents Dinner that was broadcast last week...

10. 5 killed and dozens injured in train crash near Jakarta

    Two trains collided outside the Indonesian capital Jakarta late on Monday, killing at least five people, injuring dozens, and prompting a mammoth rescue effort. First responders were still actively working at the scene in the early hours of Tuesday, with one official telling Agence France-Presse that four people remain trapped in the wreckage. One survivor told Agence France-Presse of the...