Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed U.K. territory that is home to a major U.S. military base, the U.K. government said Tuesday.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court will rule Friday on whether to formally dismiss or reinstate impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol — a decision that either way will likely deepen domestic divisions.

The Chinese military conducted large-scale drills in the waters and airspace around Taiwan on Tuesday that included an aircraft carrier battle group, as it again warned the self-ruled democracy against seeking formal independence.

Just after sunrise on Saturday, a satellite set its long-range camera on the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, not far from the epicenter of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Southeast Asian county’s second-largest city.

The death toll from the earthquake that hit Myanmar has risen to more than 1,700 as more bodies have been pulled from the rubble, the country’s military-led government said Monday.

The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive.

A unilateral partial ceasefire to facilitate earthquake relief efforts was announced on Saturday by Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government, which coordinates the popular struggle against the ruling military. The country’s death toll from the disaster soared to 1,644.

Navy fighter jets recently intercepted a Russian spy plane flying near an aircraft carrier ordered to the Middle East to support U.S. military strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi militants, officials said.

Staff Sgt. Alonzo Alcantara of Cookeville, Tenn., was also charged last week with murder with the intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm, manslaughter, aggravated assault and obstructing justice in the Sept. 1 death of his spouse.

President Lai Ching-te, who has taken an increasingly tougher approach toward Beijing since entering office last May, called this month for bringing back martial-law-era military courts to more swiftly and severely deal with spying in Taiwan’s military.