Breaking News Live Updates: Around 200 killed in Nigeria over territorial control, say reports

Thailand on Monday suspended the implementation of a US-brokered peace agreement with Cambodia after a landmine explosion injured two Thai soldiers near the border. The Royal Thai Army said the blast in Sisaket province left one soldier with a serious leg injury, while another suffered chest pain from the impact.

The peace deal, facilitated by US President Donald Trump, aimed to stabilise tensions following July’s deadly border clashes that killed at least 43 people and displaced more than 300,000 civilians on both sides.

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Japan said on Monday it lodged a complaint with China over “extremely inappropriate” remarks made by one of its diplomats directed at Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, which the United States described as threatening. The comment was posted on social media by China’s Consul General in Osaka after Takaichi told Japan’s parliament on Friday that a hypothetical Chinese attack on democratically governed Taiwan could force Tokyo to take military action in self-defence.

Takaichi described the eventuality as “a situation threatening Japan’s survival” in comments that followed a meeting with a Taiwanese representative at a regional summit in Seoul earlier this month that also angered Beijing.

On Saturday, Chinese diplomat Xue Jian shared an article in the Asahi newspaper referencing Takaichi’s remarks and wrote: “We have no choice but to cut off that dirty neck that has lunged at us without a moment’s hesitation. Are you ready?”

US President Donald Trump has issued “full, complete, and unconditional” pardons to several of his former allies, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, for their involvement in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Justice Department Pardon Attorney Ed Martin said the pardons also cover former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, lawyers John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, and Sidney Powell, as well as longtime Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn.

South Korean prosecutors on Monday indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol on new charges of aiding the enemy, accusing him of ordering drone flights over North Korea to bolster plans for declaring martial law.

North Korea claimed last year that it had “proven” South Korea flew drones to drop propaganda leaflets over Pyongyang—an allegation that Seoul’s military has neither confirmed nor denied.