The euro weakened sharply on Monday to a 17-month low as fiscal worries in France amid a steep bond market rout stoked fears of contagion risks in the region, helping the dollar shrug off soft US jobs data that dented near-term rate hike expectations.

From the sun-starved alleys of Tambora to the sinking shores of Java, Indonesia’s urban future hinges on a vital shift: treating housing not just as four walls, but as a resilient, community-led ecosystem where dignity comes first.

Narcotics detectives also detained nine suspects from three cases involving Malaysian syndicates controlling the smuggling and distribution of sabu (crystal methamphetamine).

In a result that defied opinion poll projections showing Lula in the lead, Flavio Bolsonaro scored 47 percent of the vote to the incumbent's 45 percent.

"The involvement of the House of Orange-Nassau was wholehearted and without any real reservations," researchers concluded after a three-year study carried out by Dutch historians and human rights experts looking at the period from 1600 to the present. 

Firefighters were still trying to extinguish fires and locate hot spots underneath the piles of garbage using thermal drones.

The government pours billions into shaping adult conduct and schooling, but human character and critical reasoning are overwhelmingly forged between the womb and age seven, where state policy rarely looks.

Crude oil exports from the Middle East rose above pre-war levels in four of the seven days of the final week of September, shipping data showed on Monday, despite attacks on vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Aramco has been looking ​at offering discounts for oil loaded off Oman to compensate buyers for record freight ​rates, people familiar with the matter said last week, as it sought to protect its market ‌share ⁠after the regional conflict hit exports.

Indonesia may have secured a place at the BRICS table. But a seat at the table is not the same thing as having something distinctive to say at it.

In a study aiming at quantifying the relationship between temperature and excess mortality, researchers projected that Indonesia may see almost 20,000 extra heat-related deaths during this El Niño season.

Clear legal limits, accountability and safeguards are needed to ensure exceptional assistance does not become an administrative norm.

Residents living in and outside the capital are converging on the capital amid an expansion in green open spaces, though questions linger on the ease of access to such public facilities so people can fulfill their daily need for sports and recreation.

The new National Police chief Gen. Suyudi Ario Seto has begun reshaping the police force, moving more than a dozen senior officers who previously held key posts under his predecessor Listyo Sigit Prabowo over the weekend.

Many see and expect that the new Foreign Minister could inject a new energy into the performance of Indonesia’s foreign policy in the years to come. 

Indonesia has once again been forced to confront an uncomfortable question: What happens to the principle of equality before the law once the courtroom doors close?

The latest cabinet reshuffle has placed ties between President Prabowo Subianto and his predecessor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo under renewed scrutiny, as the President appears to try preventing potential political rivals from building influence outside the government.

The 2027 budget plan passed last week foresees the highest tax revenue relative to gross domestic product in the past decade, which the government aims to achieve without introducing new levies or hiking rates.

Under the stewardship of then defense minister Prabowo Subianto, now Indonesia’s eighth President, the military embarked on a serious military hardware modernization effort. 

The sound of air raid sirens and explosions rang out in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Sunday as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived for a visit to show support for President Volodymyr Zelensky amid escalating Russian attacks.

Following the recent B50 rollout, the state asset fund is aiming to invest in ethanol infrastructure toward gradual implementation of a national fuel mandate beginning with an E20 program.

Philippines authorities have arrested more than 200 foreign workers in the country's largest crackdown on illegal online gaming operators this year, the immigration bureau said.

The disruptions from tariffs and Trump's reversals of US policies favoring electric vehicles have weighed on the US auto supplier sector, which provides parts and technology and employs some 930,000 people in the United States.

Yemen's government forces said Sunday they had struck Houthi targets around the country, deepening the conflict ravaging one of the world's poorest nations and the wider region.

Nearly 1,500 Myanmar migrants from Malaysia returned to their war-torn home country on Sunday, a Myanmar official said, under an opaque repatriation scheme that rights monitors say cannot assure their safety.

The findings could stir up the debate around reparations in the Netherlands. In 2022 the Dutch government acknowledged the Dutch state bore responsibility for transatlantic slavery, and apologized. King Willem-Alexander apologized for slavery in 2023.

The Bogong moths have had a comeback this year, with reports that the insects have invaded backyards and homes along Australia's east coast, including in New South Wales state capital, Sydney.