Japan Times

North Korea wants to reopen nuclear talks with the United States if Donald Trump is reelected as president and is working to devise a new negotiating strategy, a senior North Korean diplomat who recently defected to South Korea said.

The escape of Ri Il Gyu from Cuba made global headlines last month. He was the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to defect to South Korea since 2016.

China, India to speed up border talks, says Chinese foreign ministry

Reuters

China and India will speed up negotiations around a disputed border and continue to maintain peace and tranquility in the areas, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Officials from both countries held the 30th meeting of the China-India Border Affairs Consultation and Coordination Working Mechanism in New Delhi on Thursday, centered on hashing out a long simmering dispute over their shared Himalayan border, much of it poorly demarcated.

Iran vows revenge after Hamas leader assassinated in Tehran

BBC

Iran has threatened “harsh punishment” for Israel, which it says was responsible for assassinating Hamas’s leader on Wednesday. Israel has not commented directly on the strike which killed Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran early on Wednesday.

However, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country had delivered “crushing blows” to its enemies in recent days, including the killing of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon hours before the Tehran strike.

CrowdStrike sued by shareholders over global outage

BBC

CrowdStrike is being sued by shareholders after a faulty update by the cybersecurity firm crashed more than eight millions computers and caused chaos around the world.The lawsuit accuses the company of making “false and misleading” statements about its software testing.

It also says the company’s share price dropped 32% in the 12 days after the incident, causing a loss in market value of $25bn (£14.5bn). CrowdStrike denies the allegations and said it will defend itself against the proposed class action lawsuit.