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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told President Donald Trump that he plans to invest $600 billion or more in the United States over the next four years, Saudi Arabia’s state news agency reported Thursday.

Taiwan is entering a period of political upheaval that could hinder its combat readiness amid intensifying military intimidation from China — just as Donald Trump, who has previously questioned why the United States should defend the island, is inaugurated.

South Korean authorities navigated and rectified the exact location to detained President Yoon Suk Yeol Wednesday morning, after he surrendered to “avoid bloodshed” following a dramatic predawn police raid on his official residence.

With a burst of diplomatic and military moves, threats to restrict key exports and devastating cyberattacks on American networks, Beijing has in recent weeks broadcast that, unlike during Donald Trump’s first term, it is prepared to confront America’s next president head-on.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered to exchange North Korean soldiers captured by Kyiv’s forces for Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Moscow, adding that it was “just a matter of time” before more of Pyongyang’s troops were taken prisoner.

KOLKATA, India — The so-called “civil war” among supporters of President-elect Donald Trump over H-1B visas this past week has sparked a sharp reaction and accusations of racism by commentators in India, where these visas for skilled workers are in high demand.

The United States is taking steps to remove Indian companies from a restricted list of entities and galvanize civilian nuclear cooperation between the countries.

The Treasury Department announced sanctions Friday against a prominent Shanghai-listed Chinese network security company for its role in a global attack affecting at least 260,000 internet-connected devices, roughly half of which were located in the United States.

China launched a Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket from the waters near the city of Haiyang in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday, placing eight satellites into planned orbit.

Seven French families have filed a lawsuit against social media giant TikTok, accusing the platform of exposing their adolescent children to harmful content that led to two of them taking their own lives at 15, their lawyer said on Monday. The lawsuit alleges TikTok's algorithm exposed the seven teenagers to videos promoting suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, lawyer Laure Boutron-Marmion told broadcaster franceinfo.

Timothy Lenderking, President Joe Biden’s special envoy to Yemen, has made several appeals to the Egyptians in recent months. He has done the same with the Saudis and other Arab partners, and each time his message is more or less the same. “I’ve told all of them that they need to do more,” Lenderking said in a recent interview about the Houthis, the Iranian-backed militant group that, for the past year, has waged an aggressive campaign against the United States, Israel and commercial ships traversing the Red Sea — all in the name of defending the Palestinians amid Israel’s devastating war in Gaza.

The largest typhoon to hit Taiwan in 30 years has made landfall in the country’s southeast, bringing heavy rain and power cuts and prompting mass evacuations.