Attention is growing on whether Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the fringes of the G-20 summit in Bali, to be held for two days from Nov. 15. The talks, if realized, will be their first in-person meeting since Biden took office in January last year.

US President Joe Biden denounced the move as "purely outrageous" and said it would increase starvation.

Yoon expressed condolences to the victims, mostly teenagers and people in their 20s, and his wishes for a speedy recovery to the many injured.

But his one-time boss, former president Barack Obama, is also campaigning hard to rescue a faltering Democratic Party.

Australia earlier this year stepped up protection against foot and mouth disease at its international airports following an outbreak in Indonesia.

Biden will then travel to Cambodia from Nov. 12-13 to participate in the annual US-ASEAN summit and the East Asia Summit, the White House said in a statement. After that, Biden will visit Indonesia Nov. 13-16 to participate in a summit of leaders from the Group of 20 major economies, it added.

The crowd surge and crush hit in the capital's popular Itaewon district, where police estimate as many as 100,000 people -- mostly in their teens and 20s -- went to celebrate Halloween Saturday night, clogging the area's narrow alleyways and winding streets.

Prince Faisal bin Farhan hailed the "historical and solid relationship" between the major oil exporter and Beijing after talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

The Nuclear Posture Review, released for the first time since 2018, underscored the difficulty the Biden administration faces in pursuing a more restrictive nuclear declaratory policy amid China's military buildup, Russia's war on Ukraine and North Korea's ongoing weapons development.

The ruling junta, which seized power from an elected government last year, was reacting to a meeting earlier on Thursday of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries in Jakarta to discuss easing the intensifying crisis.

The two leaders held their first conversation after Sunak, a practising Hindu with Punjabi roots, became the UK's third leader in two months on Tuesday following the departure of Liz Truss. 

"He has no intention to sit down with Vladimir Putin and that's where we are today," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.

Saying that “sweeping problems under the carpet is not an option for ASEAN”, Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi insisted that the bloc would continue working to facilitate peace in Myanmar.

Charles is expected to amend the "Regency Act" to add his brother Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and his sister Anne, the Princess Royal, The Daily Telegraph and the BBC reported, quoting sources.

The deepening "no limits" partnership between the rising superpower of China and the natural resources titan of Russia is one of the most intriguing geopolitical developments of recent years - and one the West is watching with anxiety.

A special meeting of the group's foreign ministers was held in Jakarta to discuss the stalled peace plan, though there were no representatives from Myanmar present.

"We appreciate what Indonesia has done in holding the G20 presidency especially in the midst of the current global crisis," Tai said during a meeting with Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, based on a read-out provided by the minister's office.

China and the United States have butted heads in recent years on issues ranging from Beijing's aggression towards self-governing Taiwan to its crackdown in Hong Kong and alleged rights abuses in Xinjiang.

"With rising levels of violence and instability, and the collapse of the Myanmar economy and social protection systems, this is simply not the time to be returning anyone to Myanmar," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a statement, quoted by Kyodo News.

Participants at the special meeting, proposed by Indonesia during the foreign ministers' informal talks in New York last month, are expected to decide on how the 10-nation bloc will respond to the junta's noncompliance to a so-called five-point consensus.

Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are holding emergency talks Thursday in Jakarta on Myanmar in advance of the November 10-13 ASEAN and East Asia summits in Cambodia.

The leaders discussed the extent of UK-US cooperation, both bilaterally and in regions such as the Indo-Pacific where the AUKUS pact forms part of efforts to counter China's malign influence, the spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday.

Ahead of the Nov. 19 expiry of the grain deal, which allows Ukrainian Black Sea grain exports, Russian officials have repeatedly said that there are serious problems with it.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo expressed hope for the future of Indonesia-China ties as analysts envision continuity in the two countries’ economic partnership following Xi Jinping’s reelection as the political and military leader of China.

ASEAN chair Cambodia deeply criticized the Myanmar junta on Tuesday for a glaring attack on civilians in the country's north on Sunday, just days ahead of regional crunch talks on the coup crisis in Jakarta.

The Myanmar coup and prolonged crisis will be the main topic of discussion at the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting that opens on Oct. 27 in Jakarta, as the region's leaders look ahead to next month's summits and possible next steps.

Indonesia reaffirmed its undying support for Palestine by pledging more humanitarian assistance and capacity building to establish the country's own food and drug monitoring agency.