Zaheena Rasheed

Py­ongyang’s nu­clear and mis­sile pro­gramme tops the agen­da as Yoon hosts Biden for their first in-per­son talks.

US pres­i­dent vis­its South Ko­rea, Japan to strength­en Indo-Pa­cif­ic al­liances amid Chi­na’s rise and Rus­sia-Ukraine war.

Once self-suf­fi­cient na­tion reels from fall-out of ill-con­ceived shift to or­gan­ic agri­cul­ture, eco­nom­ic cri­sis.

News from May 15: Fin­land, Swe­den an­nounce de­ci­sion to ap­ply for NATO mem­ber­ship, set­ting aside decades of neu­tral­i­ty.

Yoon Suk-yeol faces range of ‘com­plex crises’, from N Ko­re­an nu­clear tests and US-Chi­na ri­val­ry to a slow­ing econ­o­my.

Over 50 mem­ber states back Kyiv’s re­quest for meet­ing, which will ad­dress al­leged Russ­ian rights vi­o­la­tions in Ukraine.

Ukraine news from May 8: Pres­i­dent Ze­len­skyy said a Russ­ian bomb killed some 60 peo­ple who were hid­ing in a school.

Rus­sia-Ukraine news from April 30: Com­man­der says raids on Mar­i­upol steel­works have re­sumed ahead of broad­er evac­u­a­tion.

Ukraine news from April 26: UN says Putin agrees ‘in prin­ci­ple’ for UN to help with evac­u­a­tions from Mar­i­upol.

Ukraine news from April 24: Pres­i­dent Ze­len­skyy says he hopes to se­cure heavy weapons at talks with se­nior US of­fi­cials.