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1. Hongkongers queue round the clock for new Swatch-Audemars Piguet collection

   Long lines stretching across several blocks have formed in Hong Kong as shoppers turned up days ahead of the launch of the “Royal Pop” pocket watches – a collaboration between luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet and Swatch. A South China Morning Post reporter observed about 50 people queuing in Causeway Bay on Thursday evening, a few metres from the Swatch store on Kai Chiu Road. “If you don’t...

2. First day of Lebanon-Israel ceasefire talks ‘positive’, US official says

   The US hailed “positive talks” on Thursday, as it sought to extend a shaky ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. The truce – considered to still be in place despite hundreds of deaths in Israeli strikes – ends on Sunday and violence again flared as the two governments met in Washington. Israel has pounded Lebanon and invaded its south in response to retaliatory fire from Shia movement Hezbollah...

3. The US-China trade war is entering a worrying new phase: a legal arms race

   US President Donald Trump’s landmark visit to China comes as the US-Iran war disrupts global energy supplies, fuels economic uncertainty and adds fresh strain to Washington-Beijing ties. In the latest instalment of a series examining how rivalry, interdependence and geopolitical crises are reshaping the relationship between the two powers, we explore the intensifying US-China legal arms...

4. CIA director visits Cuba, as island runs out of oil

   CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials in Havana on Thursday, the communist government said, as the island endures record energy shortages. The visit comes at a low moment in US-Cuba relations, after Washington imposed a fuel blockade on its neighbour in January and US President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the island and mused about taking it over. The meeting with Ratcliffe...

5. What Brics lacks in unity, it makes up for in flexibility

   In recent years, the Brics grouping has attracted attention as it adds members and positions itself as the voice of the Global South. At a Brics forum held in Beijing last month, officials discussed expanding trade within the grouping. Such initiatives reflect both an impulse to reduce exposure to external shocks linked to the US dollar and a long-term ambition to reshape global finance. These...

6. China restores US beef trade amid Trump-Xi summit, alarming Brazilian exporters

   Brazil’s government expressed concern over China’s renewal of US beef import licences, warning the move could reshape competition in the country’s largest meat export market. A senior Brazilian government official told the South China Morning Post that the renewal brought “anxiety” to the sector and could affect domestic cattle prices. China is Brazil’s largest beef market, and the quota system...

7. US tourist arrested for allegedly throwing rock at endangered Hawaiian monk seal

   A tourist from Washington state is facing federal charges after a witness recorded what prosecutors say was a video of him hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal just off a Maui beach last week. Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, made arrangements to surrender in the Seattle area on Wednesday as special agents with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were...

8. US Border Patrol chief resigns, in latest Trump team shake-up

   The head of US Border Patrol, the agency tasked with securing the nation’s frontiers and increasingly tapped by the Trump administration for immigration operations in American cities, announced his resignation Thursday. Michael Banks’ decision, announced in a Fox News interview and later confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security, is the latest leadership shake-up of officials implementing...

9. Xi-Trump summit day 1: everything you need to know from the meeting in Beijing

   We have put together stories from our coverage of Xi and Trump’s meeting in Beijing. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Thucydides Trap, personal touches – all you need to know from Xi-Trump summit so far The two leaders began the day with an extravagant welcome on the steps of the Great Hall of the People before heading in for talks. 2. After fanfare...

10. US moves to end fraud cases against Asia’s richest person, Gautam Adani

    US authorities are moving to resolve the fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, according to people familiar with the matter, and end a criminal case that has hung over Asia’s richest person for more than a year. The Justice Department may announce that they are dropping the charges as soon as this week, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing a confidential...