LATEST: Singaporeans voted in the ruling party’s biggest electoral test in decades amid concerns over global economic turmoil and high living costs in the Southeast Asian city-state. Read the latest updates here: https://bloom.bg/4d1kJh6

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Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was projected to be re-elected in Saturday’s vote, becoming the nation’s first leader in 21 years to win back-to-back elections: https://bloom.bg/3Gyl0Mb

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🚨 LIVE BLOG: Singapore's ruling party leads as early sample counts start to come in.

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BREAKING: Singapore’s Lawrence Wong extends ruling party's six decades in power as voters back incumbents to handle trade turmoil.

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Who is Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong?

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For the second time in a week, voters in a prominent US ally angered by President Donald Trump punished conservatives and re-elected a left-leaning incumbent.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was poised to win the largest victory for his center-left Labor Party since 1946. Read why the outcome would’ve been hard to predict just months earlier: https://bloom.bg/4iIT0Tt

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🎙 Trump wasn't on the ballot in Australia and Singapore elections, but his tariffs and policies loomed large over the results.

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President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he has ordered the reopening of Alcatraz as a prison to “house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”

The costs of such a move would likely reach into at least the hundreds of millions of dollars, based on construction budgets for recent state and federal supermax facilities. Read more: https://bloom.bg/3GDee85

🎙 LIVE NOW: Trump wasn't on the ballot in Australia and Singapore elections, but his tariffs and policies loomed large over the results.

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Representatives for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies met Trump administration officials about dismissing the criminal charges levied against him in an overseas bribery probe, according to people familiar with the matter. Read more: https://bloom.bg/3YvW8uL

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President Donald Trump has announced in a post on Truth Social that he plans to impose a 100% tariff on films produced overseas, extending his restrictive trade policies on US imports to the entertainment sector for the first time. Read more: https://bloom.bg/4d16aKx

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Pakistan alleged that India has almost entirely stopped the flow of water across the border through the Chenab river as fears of a clash between the two neighbors mount following a deadly attack in Kashmir. Read more here: https://bloom.bg/43b1GfU

Hong Kong authorities said they continued to purchase US dollars in an attempt to defend the foreign exchange peg. Read more here: https://bloom.bg/3ENQkpV

India has proposed zero tariffs on steel, auto components and pharmaceuticals on a reciprocal basis up to a certain quantity of imports in its trade negotiations with the US, people familiar with the matter said. Read more here: https://bloom.bg/3GBH4Wf

India and Pakistan are the closest they’ve been to military conflict in years following last month’s devastating attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir. The turmoil couldn’t come at a worse time for the economies of the two nuclear-armed nations. Here's why: https://bloom.bg/4m1M3zV

Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is challenging the decades-long dominance of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the most-populous country using a playbook he has practiced to perfection in other sectors: price disruption. Read more here: https://bloom.bg/3ENA2gJ

India and the UK agreed a trade deal aimed at boosting economic ties between the world’s fifth and sixth-largest economies, as Washington’s disruptive tariff policies continue to reshape global trade https://bloom.bg/44qV3Ir

New: India said it conducted military strikes against “terrorist camps” in Pakistan, an expected move after it pledged retaliations for a militant attack last month in Kashmir that killed dozens of tourists https://bloom.bg/4kblvuq

Pakistan's defense minister told local media that no Indian soldiers have been taken prisoner.

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