🇺🇸 USA
USA News Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping in South Korea
- USA News President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a face-to-face meeting in Busan on the sidelines of the APEC Summit 2025.
- Both leaders expressed cautious optimism about moving toward a trade-truce, especially regarding rare earths and technology export controls.
- Key quote from Xi: “Given our different national conditions, we do not always see eye to eye.”
US military strike on alleged narcotics-trafficking vessel
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- The United States Department of Defense said its forces carried out a lethal strike on a vessel in international waters of the eastern Pacific, killing four men described as “narco-terrorists.”
- The vessel was alleged to be operated by a “designated terrorist organization” and involved in drug-smuggling.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Ofgem to tackle £4.4 billion of energy-consumer debt
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- The UK energy regulator Ofgem announced plans to address £4.4 billion of household energy-bill debt.
- Unrecovered energy debt is adding roughly £52 per household annually (about 3% of the current average price-cap bill).
Parliament rejects bill to leave the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
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- MPs voted down by 154 to 96 a proposal by Nigel Farage (of Reform UK) to withdraw the UK from the ECHR.
- Although the bill was symbolic (presented under the 10-minute rule), its defeat was seen as important for signalling the UK’s commitment to human-rights frameworks.
Today’s news roundup (USA & UK)
