李强吁反对阵营化排他性安排 构建公正合理经贸秩序

2026年9月24日 19:30 / 联合早报

中国国务院总理李强星期四（9月24日）在浙江省会杭州出席第五届全球数字贸易博览会启动仪式并致辞。 （中新社）

中国国务院总理李强呼吁国际社会加强数字联通，弥合数字鸿沟，完善数字治理，推动更加自由、普惠、有序的贸易。他并呼吁加快推进数字贸易等规则磋商，反对阵营化、排他性安排，努力找到最大公约数，构建公正合理的经贸秩序。

据新华社报道，第五届全球数字贸易博览会星期四（9月24日）上午在浙江省会杭州举行启动仪式。马来西亚首相安华、吉尔吉斯斯坦总理卡瑟马利耶夫（Adylbek Kasymaliev）等出席并致辞，来自近50个国家和地区及有关国际组织的1200多名各界代表出席活动。

李强出席启动仪式致辞时表示，数字贸易的蓬勃兴起带来新的动力和机遇，世界经济迎来广袤蓝海，各国市场对接更加便利，全球贸易加快创新发展。与之相伴，新的发展分化、新的经贸壁垒、新的规则缺失等一些问题和挑战也更加凸显、更趋复杂。

李强认为，在经济全球化潮流面前，国际社会应当精诚协作。要加强数字联通，推动更加自由的贸易；坚定推进标准等对接互认，促进各国市场有机协同。要弥合数字鸿沟，推动更加普惠的贸易；加强数字贸易领域南北合作，在技术、基建、人员培训等方面加大对发展中国家支持。

李强并呼吁完善数字治理，推动更加有序的贸易。尊重各国实际，更好发挥世贸组织等机制作用，加快推进数字贸易等规则磋商，反对阵营化、排他性安排，努力找到最大公约数，构建公正合理的经贸秩序。

对于中国在其中可以发挥怎样的作用，李强表示，中国将持续扩大数字消费需求，实施数字消费提升行动，深入推进“人工智能（AI）+消费”，进一步放宽市场准入，优化跨境电商零售进口政策，与各国分享市场机遇。

中国也将持续夯实数字产业支撑，加快建设现代化产业体系，加强数字领域国际交流合作，赋能全球数字化进程。

李强说，中国的人工智能等技术发展坚持开源开放路线，搭建起各国都能攀登的“数字阶梯”。中国将持续优化数字发展环境，加强数字贸易标准化建设，完善数据基础制度和监管模式，推动数字贸易投资合作，为完善国际规则贡献中国方案。

新加坡击剑女佩男重止步16强 男重团体旧伤新患增隐忧

2026年9月24日 19:44 / 联合早报 陈明耀 名古屋报道

• 新加坡击剑选手王洁敏在女子佩剑个人赛16强不敌中国小将潘其妙，另一名选手林佳蒽止步循环赛。 – 男子重剑选手李仁杰在32强赛中弄伤左膝后落败出局，队友司徒健同带旧伤止步16强。 – 两人将与队友出战男子重剑团体赛，但伤势或影响排兵布阵，教练称参赛主要为积累经验。 – 东道主日本包办当日两金，加纳虹辉卫冕男子重剑冠军，江村美咲夺得女子佩剑金牌。

王洁敏（右）在16强中不敌中国新锐潘其妙，无缘连续两届亚运会闯入八强。 （关俊威摄）

新加坡击剑队无缘连续三天在爱知—名古屋亚运会增添奖牌，去年曾在亚锦赛获得女子佩剑个人赛银牌的好手王洁敏止步16强。男子重剑的司徒健同带着旧伤止步个人赛16强，李仁杰在32强受伤出局，为接下来的团体赛蒙上阴影。

21岁的王洁敏在上午的小组循环赛表现不理想，五场比赛输三场，排在全场第13，没能在淘汰赛拿到有利签表。她在淘汰赛32强虽然以15比10拿下菲律宾的吉琳·尼卡诺尔（Jylyn Nicanor），但来到16强再度对上自己在循环赛输过的中国17岁小将潘其妙。

潘其妙是去年世锦赛铜牌得主，也在今年世青赛拿到个人冠军。王洁敏虽然在开局5比2领先，但潘其妙在中途换剑后连得六分反超，最后以15比9拿下比赛。

王洁敏（左）在比赛中接受教练指导。（关俊威摄）

新加坡另一名参加这个项目的19岁小将林佳蒽则在首次亚运之旅的循环赛五战四败，没能晋级到32强阶段。

林佳蒽无法晋级女子个人佩剑淘汰赛，接下来将争取在团体赛拿出更好表现。（关俊威摄）

李仁杰重剑受伤 司徒健同带伤上阵

男子重剑个人赛方面，新加坡时隔12年再派选手亮相亚运。但李仁杰在32强对垒香港选手吴浩天时，在4比7落后时不慎弄伤左膝，在接受治疗约六分钟后继续坚持比拼，可惜最后还是11比14落败。

李仁杰躺在台上，医护人员对他进行检查。（新加坡全国奥理会提供）

回顾当时的情况，李仁杰说：“当我向对方的脚踏出弓箭步时，我听到我的膝盖发出一声声响，然后我就跌在地上，马上感到疼痛，动弹不得。

“医生检查后说没事，我还能继续比赛，不过他建议我动作不要过度，不要再扭到膝盖，所以我恢复比赛后就比较保守了。”

李仁杰（右）受伤后尽力抗敌，遗憾还是无法逆转吴浩天。（关俊威摄）

他的队友司徒健同则在小组循环赛五战四胜，32强15比13打败乌兹别克斯坦的蒂姆罗夫（Timurov），但在16强12比15输给韩国的张孝敏。

赛后司徒健同透露，自己其实在两个月前肌腱慢性受伤，雪上加霜的是，他四个星期前拉伤膝盖内侧副韧带，让他难以训练，还一度担心自己无法参加亚运会。

但在错过上届赛事后，他不想再等下届，因此咬牙坚持。他说：“其实我对自己的表现非常失望，我认为我可以表现出更接近我的能力的水平，我感觉今天我有很好的机会取得突破，可惜没能做到。”

司徒健同在男子个人重剑止步16强，虽然有伤在身，但他对自己的表现并不满意。（关俊威摄）

团体赛排兵布阵被伤情局限

和李仁杰一样，司徒健同下来将接受队医检查，希望伤势不会恶化。两人和阿兹法、潘绪哲星期天（27日）将出战男子重剑团体赛，不过团体赛最少需要三人上阵，两人的伤势情况成为变数。

来自韩国的男子重剑队教练沈在成说：“我们再看看吧，健同之前有伤，所以我也已经让另外两人准备。现在仁杰也受伤，我们要看看怎么应对，如果他们无法全力击剑，我们还有两名选手。”

不过沈在成强调，这支队伍很年轻（平均年龄23岁），这次参加亚运会不是为了挑战奖牌，而是让这些刚挑战顶级舞台的选手从经验中学习。

日本包办男子重剑和女子佩剑金牌

这天比赛的两个项目都由东道主日本夺冠。巴黎奥运会和去年世锦赛冠军加纳虹辉在决赛15比13拿下哈萨克斯坦选手普罗多科夫（Prokhodov），也卫冕上届亚运会拿到的男子个人重剑金牌。

女子佩剑方面，2022和2023年世锦赛冠军江村美咲则以15比14险胜乌兹别克斯坦的扎伊娜卜·达伊别科娃（Zaynab Dabiyekova），不过后者仍将上届的铜牌升级为银牌。

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Dem Senate hopeful dished out thousands to radical staffer who glorified Hamas: ‘Freedom fighters’

September 24, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News

The DSA-backed Nixon campaign claims Sara Mahmoud is no longer on their payroll

By Leo Briceno Fox News

FIRST ON FOX: Sara Mahmoud, who served as a social media manager for the far-left Senate nominee in Florida, has a digital footprint spanning multiple accounts with different aliases that include wishing that Zionists, supporters of the state of Israel, would “die.”

“Can Zionists die already?” Mahmoud said in one post to X from an account that was recently deleted.

She also made posts that expressed support for Hamas, the terror organization that launched the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that left roughly 1,200 people dead.

“Glory and honor to our freedom fighters. Praying for their safety and success,” Mahmoud posted on Nov. 18, 2018 — the same day Hamas fired as many as 400 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

PROGRESSIVE FLORIDA LAWMAKER ANGIE NIXON TOPPLES TRUMP IMPEACHMENT WITNESS IN DEM SENATE PRIMARY UPSET

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon speaks during a visit to the Ball and Chain Cuban restaurant/nightclub as she campaigns in the Little Havana neighborhood on Aug. 29, 2026 in Miami, Fla.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Later that same year, she also re-posted a celebration of the organization’s 31st anniversary since its founding in 1987.

“Palestine is the land of the Arab Palestinian people, from it they originate, to it they adhere and belong, and about it they reach out and communicate. #Hamas31 #WhatsHamas,” the post read.

Those comments, and dozens of others like them were cataloged by antisemitism watchdog Canary Mission, outlined Mahmoud’s thinking as she worked with Angie Nixon, a candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in pursuit of a U.S. Senate seat. The posts also further illustrate the overlap between support for DSA and opposition to Israel.

In addition to posting about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, many of Mahmoud’s posts are directed at White Jews, especially those supporting the Israeli state.

“Wow, white Jews are so entitled lmfaoooo please die,” Mahmoud said in a 2016 post.

“Zionism is a form of white nationalism, period. I’m really sick of seeing folks contesting this fact. Folks who try arguing either a.) conflate Zionism and Judaism or b.) employ race science to define ‘white’ and ‘whiteness,’” she wrote in a separate post.

“Zionism = white supremacy. PLZ get this! Zionism wasn’t made for all Jewish people and doesn’t represent all Jewish people!”

“Twitter banned me for saying zios [sic] should ch*ke but here’s my cute a– nails,” Mahmoud wrote in 2017.

Despite the comments, some dating back to 2015, Mahmoud was brought on as a social media manager for the Nixon campaign as recently as June. According to the latest FEC filing, Mahmoud has received at least $8,400 for her services between June and July. Fox News Digital could not confirm if there were additional payments in the 3rd quarter filings that will be released next month.

Mahmoud is no longer employed by the Nixon campaign.

A campaign spokesperson did not say whether it was aware of the posts when it hired Mahmoud and declined to comment on whether the campaign thought they were appropriate. They also noted that Mahmoud is no longer working for Nixon, stating that she had found another employment opportunity.

ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE REACHES DEADLIEST LEVEL SINCE 1994, NEW GLOBAL REPORT FINDS

Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon campaigns during a tour of the Little Havana neighborhood on August 15, 2026 in Miami, Florida.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Like Mahmoud, Nixon has also expressed alarm at the U.S. partnership with Israel but has couched her criticisms as strictly limited to the Israeli government.

“Caring about thousands of innocent lives lost does not make anyone antisemitic. You can turn your backs on me because I am on the right side of history because I don’t’ want the babies to die,” Nixon said in a speech before the Florida Legislature.

Nixon has supported reducing U.S. aid to Israel and reevaluating the partnership between the two countries, citing humanitarian concerns over its war with Gaza — views that align with the DSA.

But on its website, the DSA goes further. Among its other party platforms, like abolishing the U.S. Senate and government-subsidized housing, it states that it supports autonomy for the Palestinian people.

“[We] recognize the rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return, the right to resist military occupation and the right to self-determination in a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital,” the DSA website states.

Mahmoud, for her part, agreed in a post to X in 2018.

“Any means used by Palestinians to liberate ourselves from white supremacist Israeli colonizers is just. We will return. Wait on it,” Mahmoud wrote.

Even before the 2023 conflict with Gaza, which prompted international debate about its protections for civilian casualties, Mahmoud had asserted that Israel was carrying out a systematic elimination of Palestinians.

“You’re doing exactly what Hitler did. It’s a mass genocide and ethnic cleansing that Israel is conducting,” Mahmoud wrote of Israel in 2015.

“’I’m embracing my Israeli side.’ B–ch, so you embracing imperialism and racism? OK,” she posted in 2016.

FAR-LEFT STREAMER HASAN PIKER EQUATES ISRAEL’S ‘RIGHT TO EXIST’ TO NAZI GERMANY

HALLANDALE, FLORIDA – AUGUST 17: Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon speaks during a visit to the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church on August 17, 2026 in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Nixon, who previously protested on the floor of the state House with a bullhorn after Republicans redrew district lines, vies with retired Lt. Col. Alex Vindman in the August 18 primary. The winner is likely to face incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) in the November general election.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“Defend, as defined by Israeli forces: use Palestinians as target practice, sexual assault 75% of children in custody, apartheid,” she wrote in 2017.

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Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.

遭严端革职 森州10行政议员禁入办公室

2026年9月24日 19:45 / 联合早报（新明日报）

马来西亚森美兰州务大臣依斯迈拉欣（右一）星期四（9月24日）与多名行政议员一起召开记者会，证实他接获指示，所有遭严端革职的行政议员不得进入州政府大厦里的办公室，也不得履行行政议员职务。 （马新社）

（芙蓉综合讯）马来西亚森美兰州宪政危机持续延烧。遭森州最高统治者（又称严端）慕力兹革职的10名州行政议员被禁止进入森州政府大厦，无法履行行政议员职务。

不过，森州大臣依斯迈拉欣坚持，这些行政议员（州内阁部长）仍然合法，有权履行职责。

《星洲日报》报道，依斯迈拉欣星期四（9月24日）在芙蓉一家酒店召开记者会说，这些行政议员从星期三（23日）开始被禁止进入位于州政府大厦内的办公室，也不准执行行政议员职务及召开行政会议。

依斯迈拉欣说，他被口头告知有关禁令，但不清楚是谁发出指示，也没收到任何书面指示或法庭庭令。

他重申，现有森州行政议员阵容仍合法，应如常履行职务。他因此促请当局检讨不准行政议员进入办公室的指示，以免影响州政府行政运作及人民的利益。

他说，任何人都不应以森州宫廷风波为由，导致州政府行政瘫痪、阻止合法的行政决定，或影响州政府向人民提供服务的能力。

依斯迈拉欣也说，目前的宪政危机是前任希望联盟森州政府造成的，因为时任森州大臣阿米努丁未能履行《森州宪法》所规定的责任，导致宪政危机延续至今，且日益恶化。

他强调，外界指森州政府或大臣罢黜最高统治者的说法并不准确。他本人及森州行政议员并没有作出罢黜或委任新严端的决定，只是针对四大酋长的“419宣言”，表达州政府的立场。“419宣言”指的是森州四大酋长今年4月19日宣布罢黜慕力兹。

森州10名行政议员上星期三（16日）发布联署文告，认可四大酋长罢黜慕力兹。慕力兹星期天（20日）深夜宣布，立即革除这些行政议员，并要依斯迈拉欣再推荐10人出任行政议员。

依斯迈拉欣星期一（21日）则说，慕力兹革除行政议员前并未咨询大臣，这已经违反森州宪法，因此所有行政议员将照旧履行职务。他也不会提名另外10人出任行政议员。

Major pro-life group threatens to sue Trump FDA over abortion pill’s alleged environmental risks

September 24, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News

Students for Life of America says the FDA never consulted wildlife agencies as required by the Endangered Species Act

By James Cirrone Fox News

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Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins said she is threatening to sue the Trump administration over the the FDA allegedly failing to adequately review the environmental effects of mifepristone.

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A leading pro-life organization has formally threatened to sue the Food and Drug Administration, accusing the agency of failing to conduct required environmental testing of the abortion drug mifepristone despite potential risks to the waterways and wildlife.

Students for Life of America (SFLA), an anti-abortion advocacy group, filed a notice of intent to sue the FDA on Thursday, hours before Dr. Heidi Overton is scheduled to appear before the Senate for her confirmation hearing to lead the agency.

The notice says that after the FDA approved mifepristone in 2000, it never consulted two wildlife protection agencies about the drug’s possible harmful effects on federally protected species, which the group argues violated the Endangered Species Act.

“We expect these environmental concerns to be taken seriously. I know Dr. Overton is aware of these concerns. Or we expect to see the Trump FDA in court. That’s where this will end,” SFLA President Kristan Hawkins told Fox News Digital in an interview on Wednesday.

Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, speaking with attendees at the 2026 Women’s Leadership Summit at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter on the River Walk on June 5, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas.(Gage Skidmore)

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Hawkins said the FDA now has 60 days to respond to SFLA’s notice before a lawsuit is filed. Prior to the notice, the group had filed 11 citizen petitions to the agency urging action.

In response to one of those petitions on Jan. 15, 2025 — five days before President Donald Trump began his second term — the FDA rejected SFLA’s legal argument, saying it was not required to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service before approving mifepristone.

The SFLA notice cites six studies, four of which did not examine whether mifepristone was present in environmental water samples, to argue the drug may pose environmental risks warranting further federal review.

Among the studies cited is a recent paper published in Issues in Law & Medicine, which reported anti-progesterone activity in water samples from three U.S. cities.

Mifepristone tablets are seen in a Planned Parenthood clinic, July 18, 2024, in Ames, Iowa.(Charlie Neibergall/AP)

HAWLEY URGES DOJ PROBE INTO ABORTION PILL MAKER OVER SAFETY CONCERNS

Because mifepristone blocks progesterone receptors — preventing the hormone needed to sustain a pregnancy from doing its job — SFLA argues the findings show the drug has made it into the U.S. water supply.

“Where do all the babies go in chemical abortions?” Hawkins said. “If we’re talking 600,000 to 700,000 abortions a year being induced with chemical abortion pills, where are they happening? She doesn’t go to a facility to complete the abortion. The abortion often takes weeks at home. She is told to go and sit on a toilet to flush.”

The study, however, did not directly detect mifepristone in the water. Instead, it looked for signs of substances that block progesterone, and the researchers said another compound could have produced the same result.

Directly confirming the presence of mifepristone would generally require an analytical chemistry technique capable of identifying the substance itself.

An advertisement in Florida plugs abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol(Courtesy: 40 Days for Life)

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Hawkins told Fox News Digital that the legal notice against the FDA is not reliant on one study but rather “rests on the failure of the FDA in 2000 to literally follow the law.”

“This should be something that unites all Americans, regardless of how you feel about the violence of abortion. I certainly am pro-life, I wanna see abortion ended. But we all want clean drinking water,” she said.

Hawkins said that message has resonated even with students who disagree with her organization’s stance on abortion. SFLA has a strong presence on college campuses, with 1,575 active student groups across nearly half of America’s traditional four-year universities.

Heidi Overton, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 10, 2026.(Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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With new leadership at the FDA on the horizon, Hawkins said her organization is reminding the agency of its responsibilities.

“Today, Dr. Heidi Overton will be at the U.S. Senate,” Hawkins said. “And we want to be very clear that when she gets to her desk, when she get confirmed and she sits down, the first thing she sees on her desk is our notice to intent to sue.”

“It is high time to hold the abortion industry accountable and to hold our government accountable for upholding our own laws that have been enacted to protect all of us as well as the animals within our country,” she added.

James Cirrone is a writer on the Breaking/Trending News team at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to james.cirrone@fox.com.

Accused 105-year-old Nazi POW camp guard under investigation in Germany

September 24, 2026 / 6:39 AM EDT / CBS/AFP

A 105-year-old man is being investigated for possible crimes committed at a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, German prosecutors said on Thursday.

“The 105-year-old suspect is thought to have been a guard at the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 326 VI K” in the Senne region of western Germany, prosecutors told AFP in a statement.

The man is “accused of being an accessory to multiple murders through his activities there.”

The case was first reported by the Bild newspaper, which said that another former guard at the same camp had recently been investigated but had died in the interim.

The Senne camp housed between 180,000 and 200,000 Soviet prisoners of war between 1941 and April 1945, when it was liberated by American troops, according to the memorial which now stands there.

“Of the approximately 5.3 to 5.7 million Soviet prisoners of war who were taken into German captivity overall, between 2.3 and three million did not survive,” the memorial says.

Soviet prisoners of war suffered from “malnutrition, inadequate medical care, appalling sanitary conditions, and… forced labor.”

Russian prisoners celebrate being released by U.S. soldiers at German prison camp Stalag 326 VI/K, Germany, February 4, 1945. FPG / Getty Images

Last year prosecutors in Dortmund also opened an investigation into a 100-year-old former guard at another WWII prisoner of war camp in Hemer, which also held mostly Soviet inmates. That man was suspected of taking part in executions between December 1943 and September 1944. Another alleged guard at the camp was charged in 2023.

Trials in recent years

Several trials of Nazi camp staff have been held in recent years, spurred by the 2011 conviction of former Sobibor death camp guard John Demjanjuk, despite no proof he had directly killed anyone. Demjanjuk, a former auto worker in the U.S., died in 2012 at the age of 91.

However, time is running out 80 years after the end of the war.

Josef Schuetz, a former guard sentenced in June 2022 to five years in prison, died less than a year later at the age of 102. At the time, he was the oldest person ever to stand trial for crimes committed by the Nazi regime.

In April 2025, an alleged former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin died before he could face trial over charges of being complicit in the murder of more than 3,300 people.

In 2021, a 96-year-old woman accused of 11,000 counts of accessory to murder at a Nazi concentration camp went on trial in Germany.

In 2018, former Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening died before he could begin serving his 4-year sentence. Oskar Groening, who was dubbed the “Accountant of Auschwitz,” was convicted in Lueneburg in 2015 as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews. The court concluded that although there was no evidence of involvement in a specific killing, Groening knew that Jews were being slaughtered at the German death camp and supported the killings through his actions.

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泽连斯基称已将朝军战俘移送韩国 韩方未加否认

2026年9月24日 16:10 / 联合早报

乌克兰总统泽连斯基星期三（9月23日）在联合国大会发表讲话，谴责朝鲜领导人金正恩将士兵视作可以交换的“货币”，以牺牲他们来换取其他利益。 （法新社）

乌克兰总统泽连斯基说，乌方近期将两名朝鲜俘虏移送韩国。韩媒称，首尔方面未加否定，事实上予以证实。

韩联社报道，泽连斯基当地时间星期三（9月23日）在联合国大会发表讲话时说，日前已将两名朝鲜战俘送往韩国。

他具体介绍俘获朝鲜士兵的过程，同时谴责朝鲜领导人金正恩将士兵视作可以交换的“货币”，以牺牲他们来换取其他利益。

俄朝两国2024年底签署共同防御条约，此后，朝鲜一直向俄罗斯派兵，协助俄军与乌克兰作战。

泽连斯基说，朝鲜派兵支援俄罗斯，弥补俄军缺口，但朝军也付出惨重代价。他警告，俄罗斯未受惩罚的战争正在扩散，邪恶也在蔓延。

泽连斯基还在讲话中指出，亚洲各国应当已经意识到朝鲜不断升级的弹道导弹与无人机力量。

韩国外交部当天就朝鲜俘虏问题表示，韩方一贯坚持的立场是，应尊重当事人的自由意愿，并以符合国际法和人道主义原则的方式解决这个问题。根据这一立场，韩方其间与乌克兰等相关国家和机构保持必要的沟通与协商。

不过，针对朝鲜俘虏是否已被移送至韩国、通过何种渠道移送，以及具体时间等内容，外交部表示难以予以证实，但没否认泽连斯基公布的内容。

韩联社报道指出，鉴于泽连斯基公开宣布朝鲜战俘被送往韩国的消息，可以推测这些战俘已安全送抵，并在韩国的相关机构接受保护。

据悉，乌克兰军方去年初在俄罗斯西部库尔斯克地区俘获两名朝军战俘。他们之前曾通过致信韩国“脱北者”团体等方式，表明希望前往韩国。

韩国政府坚持有意接纳被乌俘获的朝军战俘的立场，并与乌克兰政府一直保持协商。

The unlikely South American ally helping lead Trump’s drug cartel crackdown

Foreign Minister Roberto Kury tells Fox News Digital the cooperation has delivered ‘a lot of positive results’

September 24, 2026 7:00am EDT / Fox News

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Ecuador’s foreign minister says U.S. intelligence and security cooperation is helping Quito fight regional narco-terror groups as the two countries deepen ties.

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NEW YORK — Ecuador has emerged as a key regional ally in President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on drug cartels and narcoterrorism, with U.S. and Ecuadorian forces working side by side to intercept narcotics shipments and dismantle transnational criminal networks, the country’s foreign minister told Fox News Digital.

Foreign Minister Roberto Kury said the increasingly close cooperation with Washington has delivered “a lot of positive results” in recent months, pointing specifically to drug shipments uncovered through U.S. intelligence and joint work on the ground.

“There is an intelligence and cooperation from the United States, but there is also always the presence of Ecuadorian military or police. They work together,” Kury told Fox News Digital in an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly this week.

For Ecuador, the stakes are enormous. Roughly 70% of the world’s cocaine passes through Ecuadorian ports, an FBI official told lawmakers earlier this year, according to the Congressional Research Service, as criminal groups battle for control of trafficking routes carrying cocaine produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru to markets abroad.

Meanwhile, Kury noted: “Most of the drugs go to the United States. So that’s why the United States shares the problem.”

US MILITARY BOARDS, SEARCHES AND SINKS VESSEL ALLEGEDLY SUPPORTING LOS CHONEROS NARCO-TERRORISTS

Ecuador Foreign Minister Roberto Kury details US security partnership to crack down on cartels.(Fox News Digital)

For the U.S., Ecuador has become a proving ground for an early priority laid out in Trump’s foreign policy: using American military power against threats closer to home as Washington turns its attention back toward the Western Hemisphere.

The explosion in the drug trade has transformed the small South American country. Once considered one of Latin America’s safer countries, Ecuador is now at the frontline of the region’s cartel fight, fueling a surge in violence that prompted President Daniel Noboa to declare an “internal armed conflict” against criminal groups and deploy the military against them.

“We have found many drugs and shipments through this cooperation, so it’s very positive for Ecuador,” Kury said of the partnership with the U.S.

Asked whether U.S. forces were participating directly in operations against cartels rather than limiting their role to intelligence and training, Kury was unequivocal about the joint nature of the effort, noting, “They work together with our local authorities.”

But Kury stopped short of giving Washington carte blanche to use military force inside Ecuador when asked whether his government would permit the U.S. to strike a cartel target on Ecuadorian soil.

WHITE HOUSE HIGHLIGHTS ‘STEEPEST’ EVER DECLINE IN US CASUALTIES FROM CARTELS AMID BOAT STRIKES

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) and Ecuador’s Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Kury give a press conference at Carondelet Palace in Quito on September 9, 2026.(Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images)

“Ecuador has our sovereignty, and they respect that sovereignty,” Kury said, adding that Quito welcomes U.S. involvement “as long as we work together, aligned with our local military and our local police.”

Kury’s comments come as Ecuador has emerged as a testing ground for the Trump administration’s effort to take the fight against Latin American drug cartels beyond maritime interdictions and into partnered military operations on land.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has praised Ecuador as the U.S.’s most “aggressive” partner in its Western Hemisphere crackdown.

He told reporters during a recent trip to Quito that U.S. and Ecuadorian “elite forces” from both countries “are working jointly on a day-to-day basis in a way that has no precedent in order to try to dismantle these terrorist organizations.”

U.S. and Ecuadorian forces launched joint operations Tuesday targeting suspected narco-terrorists in Ecuador, according to U.S. Southern Command.(U.S. Southern Command)

The expanding partnership comes as Ecuador battles a cocaine trade that President Noboa has estimated at roughly $30 billion a year. The country is looking to Washington for additional help taking on the criminal organizations behind the explosion.

Noboa said this week that his government asks the U.S. for help “every day” as Ecuador seeks to choke off a drug trade that has fueled years of violence and transformed the once relatively peaceful South American nation into a key front in the regional fight against organized crime.

Kury said Ecuador and other countries in the region need more than funding from Washington as criminal groups increasingly operate across national borders.

“Our countries in Latin America have the problem that we need support,” Kury said. “We need not only monetary support but also intelligence, technical cooperation.”

“That’s why we have the Shield of the Americas,” he added, pointing to the U.S.-led regional initiative against cartels. “I think that the whole Latin American continent should work together.”

Ecuadorean police forces carry out a security operation as part of the fight against extortion gangs in a shantytown in the northeast of Guayaquil, Ecuador on April 4, 2024.(GERARDO MENOSCAL/AFP via Getty Images)

The growing relationship extends beyond the cartel fight: Ecuador has also agreed to accept some third-country nationals deported from the U.S., part of the Trump administration’s effort to enlist regional partners in carrying out its immigration agenda.

Kury told Fox News Digital there are limits and “explicit rules” governing the arrangement, describing Ecuador as a temporary stop rather than the final destination for those sent there.

“The deported people come to Ecuador for a few hours, one day, two days, and they are then deported back to their country of origin,” Kury said. “So it’s the way to cooperate, and that’s how we support each other, each country.”

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Kury emphasized that Quito wants the expanding relationship with Washington to translate into greater U.S. investment and trade in Ecuador.

“The United States is the main trade partner of Ecuador,” he said, pointing to opportunities for American investment in mining, oil and gas, energy, tourism and agriculture. “We look not only [for] cooperation in the security side, but we also look to build more jobs in our country, to bring investment from the United States.”

The U.S. is Ecuador’s largest trading partner, with U.S. exports to the country totaling $7.7 billion in 2024 and accounting for 28% of Ecuador’s imports, according to the Commerce Department. Ecuador uses the U.S. dollar as its currency but does not have a free trade agreement with Washington.