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Korea launched, Monday, a new agency tasked with overseeing affairs related to 7.5 million Koreans living abroad. President Yoon Suk Yeol said he hopes the Overseas Koreans Agency will strengthen networks between Koreans here and abroad to promote mutual growth and prosperity.

The China-Central Asia Summit has been portrayed as a triumph of China's regional diplomacy, with leaders of six countries pledging support for Beijing and vowing deeper bilateral cooperation.

Exit polls after the May 10 voting in the southern Indian state of Karnataka had projected that the opposition Congress party stood a better chance of forming the next government than the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was in power.

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang told his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi during their meeting in Beijing in April that he is willing to visit Japan, a source familiar with bilateral relations said Wednesday.

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and the Taliban’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi attended the 5th China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue in Islamabad and stressed the need for peace, security, and economic development of the region.

The leaders of South Korea and Japan tried to look beyond historical disputes over wartime forced labor to achieve their "shared goal" of future-oriented bilateral ties, during a summit in Seoul, Sunday.