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Tbilisi has set up a commission to implement a long-stalled deal with Russia to establish trade corridors through Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But political minefields lie ahead.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un spoke highly of U.S. President Donald Trump, state media said on Thursday, and expressed satisfaction over the results of talks between officials from both countries about a second summit between Kim and Trump.

Malaysia has elected Sultan Abdullah of Pahang as its new king after the shock abdication of the previous monarch.

For anyone likely to be hurt by rising trade tariffs between the world's top two economies, time is running out fast. There's just over a month to go before a truce in their dispute between the United States and China ends on March 1, and Washington more than doubles tariffs on $200bn worth of imported Chinese goods to 25 percent.