1. A Thai court ordered self-exiled former premier Yingluck Shinawatra to pay 10 billion baht ($305 million) in damages over a botched rice pledging scheme.

2. Twenty-one people have been trapped after torrential rain triggered landslides in China's southwestern Guizhou province.

3. South Korea will prepare support measures for agricultural and food exporters, while closely monitoring the impact of U.S. tariffs on the sector.

4. Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with explosive false claimsof white genocide and land seizures.

5. Britain was temporarily blocked from concluding a deal on the Chagos Islands with Mauritius after an eleventh-hour injunction by a London High Court judge.

6. The first phase of the "Stargate UAE" artificial data center will come online in 2026, likely with 100,000 Nvidia chips.