Japan is coordinating with the US, Australia, and India to hold a Quad foreign ministers meeting following the swearing-in of President-elect Donald Trump on January 20. Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi will attend the ceremony. The meeting aims to strengthen Indo-Pacific cooperation. Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will also attend the ceremony and meet with US officials.
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Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani has warned that an attack on Iran's Gulf coast nuclear facilities would leave countries across the region without water. Iran has a nuclear power plant at Bushehr on the Gulf coast, though its uranium enrichment facilities, key to building atomic weapons, are located hundreds of kilometres (miles) inland.
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. stated the nation won't deploy its navy to support fishers in the contested Scarborough Shoal, aiming to avoid escalating tensions in the South China Sea. This follows an incident where Chinese vessels used water cannons against a Philippine supply boat. China asserts the Philippines' actions are provocative infringements on its sovereignty.
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