Trump, Xi, Putin to Hold Rare Three-Way Talks in China
Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to hold an unprecedented trilateral meeting next week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in China’s Shenzhen city, the White House has said.
China is set to host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting on November 18-19, with leaders of the 21-member grouping attending the summit.
Discussions at the trilateral meeting are expected to focus on a range of global issues, including conflicts, artificial intelligence and nuclear arms reduction. The proposed discussion on nuclear weapons comes amid concerns over the future of global arms control following the expiry of the New START treaty between the US and Russia in February. The last remaining major bilateral nuclear arms control agreement between the two countries, it placed legally binding limits on their strategic nuclear arsenals. Its expiry has left the world’s two largest nuclear powers without such binding limits. “The president has made it clear that, among other topics, he will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world, whose proliferation President Trump believes is very dangerous,” BBC quoted White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales as saying.
The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that the discussions could also explore possible commitments on regulating the use of artificial intelligence in nuclear arsenals as part of a broader global governance agenda.
Microsoft services were fully restored
Microsoft said Saturday that services were fully restored after a massive outage that lasted for hours. "We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,” the company said in an update on X.
Users reported that Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot, were interrupted. Downdetector, an online tracker, said it received outage reports from users in more than 70 countries and territories.
The outage affected governments, courts, healthcare services, businesses, airlines and banks in many places. Governments including those of Japan, Singapore and Australia reported that the hours-long episode had impacted some of their operations.