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The remains of 54 unidentified Palestinian detainees returned to Gaza by Israel were buried in a mass grave in Deir al-Balah. Allegations that the bodies showed signs of mistreatment were strongly denied by the Israeli government.



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Oct. 25, 2025, 9:19 AM EDTBy Katherine DoyleKUALA LUMPUR— President Donald Trump arrives in Malaysia on Sunday for his first visit to Asia since returning to office, a three-nation tour through Malaysia, Japan and South Korea that is expected to culminate in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as tensions between the world’s two biggest economies tick higher.“The first message is Trump the peacemaker. The second is Trump the moneymaker,” said Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “And then, of course, with the meeting with China, I think what everybody’s expecting is that there’s probably not going to be a big trade deal, but there will be an effort to de-escalate or put a pause on the situation.”Trade is expected to dominate the week. Aboard Air Force One on Friday, Trump said he would subsidize U.S. farmers if he did not reach a deal with China, and that he planned to discuss the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war with Xi, saying he’d like to see China “help us out.”The president also suggested he was angling for a meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, even as the White House has said that no meeting is planned. “You know, they don’t have a lot of telephone service,” Trump said, before urging reporters to “put out the word.” In Kuala Lumpur, Trump is scheduled to meet with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim before attending a working dinner of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders. Malaysia, this year’s ASEAN chair, has set “Inclusivity and Sustainability” as the summit theme. The White House said Trump will also join a signing ceremony for a peace agreement between Cambodia and Thailand, whose deadly border conflict he has claimed credit for helping to resolve. During his first term, Trump attended the annual ASEAN summit only once.Sandwiched between the summit in Kuala Lumpur and South Korea’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, Trump will pay an official visit to Japan, his fourth, for talks with the new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and an audience with Japanese Emperor Naruhito.Takaichi, a conservative protege of the late Shinzo Abe, has pledged to raise defense spending to 2% of GDP by March, two years ahead of schedule, a target likely to draw praise from Trump, who has pressed for allies to spend more. She has also raised the idea of revisiting the U.S.-Japan trade deal announced in July. Trump and Abe forged a close personal relationship during his first term, before Abe’s assassination in 2022. Trump will also meet with business executives and visit American troops while in Japan, a country that hosts more U.S. service members than any other in the world.In South Korea on Wednesday, Trump is slated to address business leaders at APEC, hold a bilateral meeting with the president, and attend a leaders’ dinner that evening.Topping the agenda at every stop is trade, with negotiators still ironing out the details of pacts with South Korea and Japan and taking steps towards agreements with China and Malaysia. U.S. and Chinese delegations are meeting in Malaysia over the weekend ahead of Trump’s arrival in Kuala Lumpur.“It’s not the U.S. president coming to Asia to meet the multilateral schedule; it’s the U.S. president coming to Asia and then bending the multilateral schedule around his schedule,” said Cha, noting Trump is skipping the U.S.–ASEAN leaders meeting, the East Asia Summit, and formal APEC sessions. Even so, Cha said regional leaders are eager to engage.“Everybody still wants to cut a deal with the U.S. president,” he said. “They all want tariff relief, and they will try to make a deal to achieve that.”Central to the trip is Trump’s anticipated meeting with Xi in South Korea on Thursday, though Beijing has not yet confirmed the session. Top officials from the U.S. and China are sitting down in Malaysia on Saturday to find a way forward after Trump threatened new tariffs of 100% on Chinese goods and other trade limits starting on November 1 in response to China’s expanded export controls on rare earth minerals and related technologies. Trump has said he plans to raise fentanyl, accusing China of failing to curb the flow of precursor chemicals, and a senior administration official said China’s purchases of Russian oil will also be on the table. Trump said he also expects to discuss Taiwan. “We have a lot to talk about with President Xi, and he has a lot to talk about with us,” Trump said Friday, adding he expects “a good meeting” even as he has intermittently threatened to call it off over trade frictions, including soybean purchases.Both leaders want the optics and tactical aspect of this meeting to go well, a person familiar with the meeting planning said. Analysts urged caution about what a leader-level encounter can deliver. “During Trump’s first term, high-level exchanges with China did not prevent him from later taking a harder line,” said Sun Chenghao, a fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy. “So the symbolic value of summit diplomacy should not be overstated.”Earlier this week, a senior administration official pushed back on speculation that Trump could reprise his 2019 encounter with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, when he made a surprise visit to the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas in an effort to revive nuclear talks that had collapsed. Trump said before leaving Washington on Friday that he “would like” to meet with Kim, but was unsure whether it would happen on this trip. Kim says he will negotiate only if the U.S. recognizes North Korea as a nuclear power, and has only further strengthened his weapons programs since Trump’s first term. “I think they are sort of a nuclear power,” Trump seemed to acknowledge as he began his journey to Asia on Friday, perhaps paving the way for a possible meeting. “They’ve got a lot of nuclear weapons. I’ll say that.”Katherine DoyleKatherine Doyle is a White House reporter for NBC News. Carol E. Lee, Jennifer Jett, Peter Guo, Arata Yamamoto and Stella Kim contributed.
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Oct. 6, 2025, 4:34 PM EDT / Updated Oct. 6, 2025, 5:38 PM EDTBy Natasha Korecki and Daniella SilvaCHICAGO — Clashes between protesters and federal agents over immigration enforcement escalated this weekend, capping several weeks of tension over President Donald Trump’s vow to send federalized National Guard troops to the streets of Chicago. Skirmishes outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview led the mayor to announce Monday that she was limiting demonstrations to certain hours.The announcement, which was provided first to NBC News, comes after multiple clashes around an ICE processing facility in Broadview, where federal agents fired pepper balls and tear gas and used physical force, including slamming people to the ground, as protesters have tried to block vehicles from entering and leaving the facility. Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an order designating protest hours of 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily “in response to escalating disruptions and public safety concerns.”Tensions have grown in Chicago and the surrounding area after President Donald Trump launched Operation Midway Blitz, massively increasing immigration enforcement in the area. The operation has so far led to 900 arrests, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Demonstrations opposing the deployment of federal troops have taken place in downtown Chicago.Jacek Boczarski / Anadolu via Getty ImagesThompson said in a statement that the order sought to balance the constitutional rights of protesters and “the needs and safety of Broadview’s residents and businesses.”“People have to go to work, they have to get their children ready for school, our businesses have to serve their customers, and our residents with developmental disabilities, who have sensory issues, have suffered emotional meltdowns because of the chaotic environment when protests get disruptive,” she said in the statement.She said some demonstrators have escalated into unsafe situations, including over the weekend, when there was a “very aggressive crowd of protesters and the situation got out of control” as demonstrators tried to take over Interstate 290.“I have repeatedly said that I intend to defend the protesters’ constitutionally protected free speech rights. I support their cause,” she said. “But the repeated clashes with ICE agents in our town are causing enormous disruptions in the quality of life for my residents whose rights I have taken an oath to protect. We live here. Our residents live here and deserve dignity and respect.”ICE said in a statement that the Broadview Processing Center “continues to face violence and unlawful activity by rioters. The relentless actions of these individuals — and their attempts to obstruct the enforcement of federal law — are unacceptable.”The agency said “local inaction” by officials “has enabled agitators to escalate violence and placed federal officers, first responders, and Broadview residents in harm’s way.”Trump has also been threatening to deploy the National Guard to Chicago for months, giving the greenlight to do so over the weekend, as state and local officials have fought back against his efforts.Earlier Monday, the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago sued to block the Trump administration from deploying federalized National Guard troops on the streets of Chicago.“The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president’s favor,” the Illinois Attorney General’s Office wrote in the filing, which names President Donald Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll as defendants.Representatives for the Justice Department, the Army and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Defense Department declined to comment.Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, said at a news conference later Monday that Trump’s plans to send in the National Guard were an “unconstitutional invasion of Illinois by the federal government.”“Peaceful protesters have been hit with tear gas and shot with rubber bullets; journalists simply reporting the facts on the ground have been targeted and arrested; U.S. citizens, including children, have been traumatized and detained,” he said.Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has repeatedly pushed back against Trump’s intention of sending National Guard troops to Chicago.Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP – Getty ImagesHe said the “escalation of violence is targeted and intentional and premeditated. The Trump administration is following a playbook. Cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem like peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them.”Pritzker said Trump wanted to “justify and normalize the presence of armed soldiers under his direct command.”The White House maintained Trump’s actions are lawful.“Amidst ongoing violent riots and lawlessness, that local leaders like Pritzker have refused to step in to quell, President Trump has exercised his lawful authority to protect federal officers and assets. President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement.Citing crime issues, Trump has also threatened to send the National Guard into other prominent Democratic-run cities, including New York, Baltimore and New Orleans. The rate of serious crimes has dropped dramatically in Chicago and the other cities Trump had targeted in recent years. Statistics from the Chicago Police Department show the murder rate through the end of September is down 29% compared with the same period last year. Overall crime is down 13%, according to the police department.Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Monday called “ICE Free Zone,” which prohibits federal immigration agents from using any city-owned property during its operations in Chicago. “We will not tolerate ICE agents violating our residents’ constitutional rights nor will we allow the federal government to disregard our local authority. ICE agents are detaining elected officials, tear-gassing protestors, children, and Chicago police officers, and abusing Chicago residents. We will not stand for that in our city,” Johnson said in a statement. The White House, in a statement Monday, called Johnson’s order “a disgusting betrayal of every law-abiding citizen.” “Johnson’s pathetic excuse that enforcing our nation’s immigration laws somehow ‘undermines community trust’ exposes his true loyalty: to criminal illegal alien predators, not the terrified families of Chicago,” the statement said. Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Monday afternoon that Johnson was “demonizing ICE law enforcement” and accused him of not caring about the safety of federal law enforcement officers or Chicagoans. “His reckless policies not only endanger our law enforcement, but public safety,” she said.Natasha KoreckiNatasha Korecki is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.Daniella SilvaDaniella Silva is a national reporter for NBC News, focusing on immigration and education.
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Oct. 29, 2025, 5:10 PM EDTBy Janis Mackey Frayer and Alexander SmithYICHANG, China — Behind a large glass wall, a worker in full protective gear watches as hundreds of tiny glass bottles whizz by every minute, sterilized, filled and packaged by a ballet of robotic arms.Inside each ampule is the substance at the heart of the geopolitical strife between the United States and China: fentanyl, the deadly opioid set to be top of the agenda when Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet Thursday.NBC News got exclusive access to the headquarters of Yichang Humanwell Pharmaceutical, the largest producer of the drug in China, and indeed Asia, at its sprawling complex in the central city of Yichang. Humanwell says that it only supplies fentanyl for use in hospitals and that it does not export any medication to the United States, Mexico or Canada. In 51 years of operating, “we have never had a single incident of a drug going missing — not a single dose has ever been lost,” its president, Du Wentao, said in an interview inside his factory, which is surrounded by high fences wrapped in concertina wire and electric sensors.Read more on this story at NBCNews.com and watch “NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas” tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT.Humanwell Healthcare is one of only five companies in China licensed to produce fentanyl for use in hospitals, and it makes around 100 million doses of fentanyl variants each year.After a strict registration process to get past the main gate, all visitors and staff alike — including the CEO — are required to wear blue hospital caps, shoe covers and lab coats to ensure they do not contaminate the workspace.Most of the production line is automated to limit human contact, with the vials being washed and sterilized and then filled with fentanyl using long rubber tubes.Two staffers in protective gear supervised the process, with an alarm pinging every 10 minutes to remind them to spray their gloved hands with disinfectant. The vials are then inspected using flashes of light, stamped, boxed up and shipped out via a warehouse.All visitors and workers at Humanwell are required to wear full protective gear so as to not contaminate the workspace.Janis Frayer / NBC NewsTrump says fentanyl will be the subject of the “first question” he asks when he meets with Xi in South Korea, the last stop of his three-country Asian tour.American officials say the Chinese government hasn’t done enough to stem the illicit international flow of precursor chemicals for fentanyl, which are then processed into the highly addictive opioid in Mexican labs and smuggled across the border to the United States. Though deaths appear to be declining in the U.S., fentanyl and other synthetic opioids have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Trump, who cited fentanyl as the reason for imposing the first 20% in tariffs on China since retaking office in January, said Wednesday that he believed China is “going to help us with the fentanyl situation” and that tariffs would be lowered accordingly.China has defended its anti-fentanyl efforts and says unrelenting American demand for the drug is to blame for the crisis.But a State Department report to Congress last month accused the ruling Chinese Communist Party of continuing to “subsidize and otherwise incentivize China-based companies to export synthetic drug precursors, including through tax rebates, monetary grants and awards, and official site visits.” It accused companies controlled by the Communist Party of being “complicit in this illicit trade.”Under pressure from Trump, China made fentanyl a controlled substance in 2019, banning its use outside of medical prescriptions. That slowed the influx of Chinese fentanyl into the U.S., but the “prolific export of chemical precursors and other illicit narcotics remains,” the State Department report said.Chinese officials reject that narrative.“China expresses sympathy for the American people suffering from the fentanyl crisis,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday. But he added that “China is the country most resolute in drug control, with the most comprehensive policies and the best track record. It is also one of the countries with the largest number of controlled substances and the strictest regulations in the world.”Du, the president of Humanwell Healthcare, which produces 100 million doses annually of fentanyl-based products, says that the meticulously clean, automated and controlled operation observed by NBC News was no facade.“The management of fentanyl drugs in China is among the strictest in the world,” he said. “There is absolutely no possibility that any dose from our company has flowed to the United States. I can state this with full confidence and certainty — there is no issue whatsoever.”He derided the “many statements in the U.S. claiming that the fentanyl crisis originates from China,” saying that is impossible “given how strict our controls are.”As well as the visit to Humanwell, NBC News gained exclusive access to the National Narcotics Intelligence Center in Beijing, which had been sanctioned by Washington in 2020 but saw those measures lifted three years later during the Biden administration as the two countries agreed to resume cooperation on fentanyl.There, Chinese security officials said the two sides are again exchanging information on how smugglers alter their tactics.Fentanyl precursors are “indeed one of our main concerns because drug synthesis techniques and methods are constantly evolving,” lab director Hua Zhendong told NBC News. “We have not found such processing plants domestically,” he said, so “most of the relevant information comes from technical exchanges with U.S. counterparts.” Hua said the latest precursor chemicals identified by the U.S. “are added to our monitoring list so we can strengthen our attention to these substances.”He said that banning all fentanyl products outside medical use in 2019 had “effectively curbed illegal production and trafficking.”U.S. officials say that’s not the case. The extent to which Washington and Beijing can find common ground on the issue is likely to influence the result of Trump and Xi’s meeting this week, though experts say halting the illicit flow of fentanyl components is easier said than done“I think there is an assumption here that if the Chinese really wanted to shut off these precursors, they could do it,” said Michael Swaine, a senior research fellow in the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington-based think tank.The problem, he said, is that there is no “set number” of precursors to fentanyl.“You don’t have a clear list of specific items that you would be able to easily interdict,” Swaine said. “And a lot of them, of course, are very dual-use items.”So while there might be a “symbolic effort” to deal with the fentanyl issue at the Trump-Xi meeting, he said, “I don’t think that this is going to go completely away.”Janis Mackey FrayerJanis Mackey Frayer is a Beijing-based correspondent for NBC News.Alexander SmithAlexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.Dawn Liu and Peter Guo contributed.
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