Before welcoming the island leaders, gathered under the umbrella of the 18-nation Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), Biden announced US diplomatic recognition of two more Pacific islands nations, the Cook Islands and Niue.

Lachlan is already president of Fox Corporation, parent company of the Fox News cable television channel, and was long the favorite against his brother James to succeed the family patriarch.

“We are again at a strategic crossroads, as in 1955,” Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Saturday, as New York City in the United States began to wind down after the week-long clamor of world leaders debating the war in Ukraine, the debt crisis and the current shortcomings of multilateralism.

Indonesia's top diplomat has cautioned delegates at the ongoing 78th UNGA that the world should prepare to anticipate potential geopolitical uncertainties and conflicts related to global sea level rise.

The court said 9 of its 11 justices rejected the deadline because it countered constitutional guarantees on Indigenous rights to ancestral lands.

The Indonesian delegation at this week's UNGA has been pushing for improved global balance and equity between developing and developed nations, and urged reform of the international financial architecture at a high-level dialogue on development financing on Wednesday.

Trudeau said that Ottawa had credible allegations linking Indian government agents to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June, prompting an angry reaction from New Delhi. Nijjar, 45, was a Canadian citizen.

Indonesian diplomats at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) have undertaken the mission of strengthening the voice of the Global South, an informal grouping Jakarta believes to be increasingly injured by the current world order, as divisions among nations continue to deepen.

Indonesia advanced its bid for membership of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), holding bilateral talks with a number of its members at the United Nations in New York, the United States, on Tuesday, in the hope of winning over the consensus needed for admission.

The House Oversight Committee, led by Republican Representative James Comer, said it will explore constitutional and legal questions at the hearing, and also intends to subpoena personal and business bank records of Hunter Biden, the president's son, and James Biden, the president's brother.

With much of its long-term development plan hindered by international trade laws, the current global order has been labeled “unfit” by Indonesian delegates at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit, who also urged for the end of “discriminatory” trade policies.

The accusations, which India rejected as "absurd," sent already sour relations between Ottawa and New Delhi to a dramatic new low.

The 80-year-old usually avoids the age issue but addressed it during a fundraiser at a Broadway theatre in New York, saying his experience helped him deal with crises like Ukraine and Covid.

Indonesian delegates on Tuesday dove into this week’s whirlwind of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings, where world representatives will discuss the state of the world and mull over cooperation agreements.

Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi called on the grouping of developing countries to increase cooperation and push for its right to development, including technological advancements, at the recently concluded G77 summit on science and technology.

Heavy rains caused by the extratropical cyclone have affected 80 cities and left more than 2,300 people homeless and over 3,900 displaced.

The move comes a little over a year before the 2024 election, as Biden seeks to shore up his green credentials that were damaged by a decision earlier this year to greenlight a project by US energy giant ConocoPhillips in the same area. 

The president, 80, also tested negative during a check-up on Monday and is "not experiencing any symptoms," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.

The bill aims to support a struggling Canadian news sector that has seen a flight of advertising dollars and hundreds of publications closed in the last decade.

As the BRICS leaders met in Johannesburg, President Joe Biden's administration renewed promises to step up funding for the developing world through the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The situation "is dangerous," said Kelsey Worth, 35, one of nearly 20,000 residents of Yellowknife and thousands more in small towns ordered to evacuate the Northwest Territories as wildfires advanced.

Indonesia's Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten) sticks to reports from United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and data from plat's operator that the released wastewater is relatively safe for the environment.

But the mug shot released by Georgia authorities on Thursday, showing a scowling Trump just minutes after he was booked on more than a dozen felony counts at an Atlanta jail, may become the most famous of all, shared around the world by both detractors and supporters.

Trump spent only about 20 minutes at the jail before heading back to his New Jersey golf club. Before boarding his private plane at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport, he repeated his claim that the prosecution is politically motivated.

When Donald Trump surrenders on Thursday to face charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election he is expected to do so at an Atlanta jail where conditions are so notorious they are under investigation by the Justice Department.

Calgary's airport in the neighboring province of Alberta has become a reception center for the evacuees, in a massive operation without precedent in the region.

Biden is inviting Xi in November to San Francisco when the United States holds a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which includes China.

The leaders' language on China stood out as stronger than expected, and is likely to provoke a response from Beijing, which is a vital trading partner for both South Korea and Japan.

The summit at the Camp David in the mountains west of Washington would have been unimaginable until recently, with the two treaty-bound US allies at loggerheads for decades over the legacy of Japan's harsh 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula.

The US president has sent a statement congratulating Indonesia on the occasion of its 78th Independence Day that also praised the relationship between the two countries.