South Korea's KOSPI continued to slide, intraday losses widened to 8% and the index is down 35% month-to-date. SK Hynix fell nearly 12% intraday; Samsung Electronics dropped 7.5%.

Cuba's foreign ministry on the 28th condemned remarks by Colombia's president-elect proposing to close Colombia's embassy in Havana and sever diplomatic relations after taking office, saying the plan "succumbs to US pressure on Cuba," "lacks reasonable basis" and is not in Colombia's national interest. The statement warned that implementing the move would violate the founders' ideal of Latin American and Caribbean unity and would expose the incoming Colombian government as yielding to a policy aimed at sowing division and conflict between the two countries.

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