China's #2 official just visited North Korea for the first time since 2019. What does it mean? @victordcha.bsky.social, Bonny Lin, @andysaulim.com & Truly Tinsley analyze the renewed North Korea-China ties and what's at stake. 📊 New on @csis.org 🔽

Exclusive: The U.S. military’s elite Special Operations aviation unit appears to have flown in Caribbean waters less than 90 miles from the coast of Venezuela in recent days, according to a visual analysis by The Post.

President Donald Trump said he authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela to clamp down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs from the South American nation, but stopped short of saying they would have authority to remove President Nicolas Maduro.

Scores of journalists with access to the Pentagon handed in their press passes on Wednesday rather than sign on to new rules that sharply restrict access and raise the prospect of punishment for simply requesting information on matters of public interest. Here is what the new rules say.

China issues bounty for Taiwan PsyOps unit for 'separatism' reut.rs/4ogfNJI

US President Donald Trump announced an additional 100 percent tariff on China Friday and threatened to cancel a summit with Xi Jinping. In full: buff.ly/h7xPaA4

NEW: While Qatar helps with Gaza talks, it's trying to mediate the US-Venezuela conflict. But Trump is cold on diplomacy. He has put 10,000 troops in the Caribbean and is continuing airstrikes on civilian boats. And Rubio pushes to oust Maduro. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

En la calle de Cartagena 🇨🇴

*deep sigh* wapo.st/4pO0OrJ

Israel says ‘last opportunity’ for Gaza City residents to leave

Illinois governor says Trump administration has requested troop deployment as tensions rise in Chicago reut.rs/4mEPwmQ

With armed gangs controlling 90 percent of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's outnumbered, outgunned security forces are fighting back with weaponized drones. There have been no reports of gang leaders killed, but the drones have blown up several children wapo.st/42BTjKT

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

SCOOP: DEA officials advocated for a series of military strikes in Mexico earlier this year, alarming some in the White House and Pentagon and presaging the fraught debate underway over the legality of this month’s deadly attacks on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea. wapo.st/4ms2Xq9

New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.

NEW: Trump officials have moved forward with destroying $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID. The contraceptives would've gone to nations in need. State Dept. and USAID documents obtained by @nytimes.com show groups offered to buy them. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

A group of Navy SEALs emerged from the ink-black ocean on a winter night in 2019 and crept to a rocky shore in North Korea. They were on a top secret mission so complex and consequential that everything had to go exactly right. But the mission swiftly unraveled. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Rodrigo Dueterte is literally in The Hague for this headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Ghost Month celebrations in northern Taiwan as the Main Alter is lit by Keelung’s leaders. 👻

China is drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), a move that analysts believe is likely part of Beijing’s unilateral grab for disputed territory that could also aid a future invasion of Taiwan. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

China spent $21 billion on military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, the East and South China Sea and the Western Pacific last year, nearly 40% higher than 2023, according to Taiwan government estimates. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

A report from the World Health Organization says 1 in 4 people lack access to safe water to drink. Even more don't have water for sanitation. We asked someone who grew up that way to share childhood memories.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will attend a huge military parade in China next week to mark 80 years since the end of World War II, both countries announced on Thursday. In full: buff.ly/wrhe881

BREAKING: Famine has struck an area of Gaza and will likely spread over the next month, a global hunger monitor determined, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the war-torn Palestinian enclave reut.rs/4mv0hsU

Taiwan 'issue' is an internal matter, China says in response to Trump reut.rs/45mpyiR

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

Taitung, Taiwan August 13, 2025–Fallen trees and debris litter the main street of Dulan as Typhoon Podul passes Taiwan’s southeast coast.

Taitung, Taiwan August 13, 2025 — Fallen trees and debris litter the main street of Dulan as Typhoon Podul hits Taiwan’s southeast coast.

Strong winds and rain in Taitung as Typhoon Podul hits southern Taiwan.

Taitung, Taiwan August 12, 2025–Residents of Dulan in southeastern Taiwan taped windows, lowered barricades, and tied down trees in preparation for Typhoon Podul. The typhoon will hit Taiwan’s coast on Wednesday before it continues to China’s Fujian province.

Al Jazeera has said that two of its correspondents, including a prominent reporter, and three cameramen were killed in an Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City on Sunday. The Israeli military admitted to targeting Anas al-Sharif, the reporter it labelled as a "terrorist" affiliated with Hamas.

An Israeli strike near a hospital in Gaza City killed four Al Jazeera journalists. Anas al-Sharif, a well-known correspondent, was among those killed. Israel said it had targeted al-Sharif, claiming he worked for Hamas.

World Health Organization says nearly 100,000 struck with cholera in Sudan u.afp.com/SMX5

Republicans are discussing ways to redraw congressional maps and create new red seats in Missouri, Indiana, Ohio and Florida following the fight with Democrats in Texas.

A Taiwanese film has been axed from a film festival programme after it failed to meet requirements set by the Hong Kong government's censorship requirements. In full: buff.ly/2OUObxy

Tourists release sky lanterns in the former mining community Shifen 十分 in northern Taiwan. An estimated 30,000 lanterns are released every month as one of Taiwan’s most popular tourist activities.

Taipei, Taiwan July 25, 2025 — Two opposing rallies in Taipei, just a few hundred meters apart, ahead of Saturday’s recall election that could reshape the country’s legislature. Photos 1-4: KMT supporters rally against the recall vote

Taipei, Taiwan July 24, 2025 — Thousands of people gathered in Taipei for a rally in support of Saturday’s recall election that could reshape the country’s legislature.

More than 100 aid organisations and human rights groups warned on Wednesday that "mass starvation" was spreading in Gaza, as the United States said its top envoy was heading to Europe for talks on a possible ceasefire and aid corridor. u.afp.com/SgUN

Taiwan, EU both face threats of 'external infiltration', president tells European lawmakers reut.rs/4m6wSEE

“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Typhoon Wipha puts Hong Kong on highest storm alert

A family checks the alerts on their phones as air raid sirens signal the end of this year’s Wan An air raid drills at Taoyuan International Airport on July 17, 2025.

Kataleya Nativi Baca came to the U.S. from Honduras as a trans woman looking for safety. Under President Trump, she's going back. “The president came into power and threatened to take our rights away and deport us. ... It’s better I go on my own.” wapo.st/4fd3PgJ

TAIPEI, July 16, 2025–Taiwan’s Patriot air defense system is deployed to a riverside park in Taipei as part of the annual Han Kuang military exercise. This year’s drills are the largest and longest since they began in 1984, lasting 10 days across the country.

“Police in China have arrested young women writers for novels featuring homosexual relationships between androgynous young men. While Chinese law bans erotic content authorities are particularly concerned about what they see as a challenge to traditional family values” www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...