Meta founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg triggered alarm on Tuesday when he announced his tech company was ditching fact-checking on its platforms in the United States.

President Yoon Suk Yeol resisted arrest in a standoff between his guards and investigators last week after his failed Dec. 3, 2024 power grab plunged South Korea into its worst political crisis in decades.

The junta hit Kyauk Ni Maw village of Yanbye township on Wednesday afternoon, destroying around 500 homes and killing more than 40 people, according to the National Unity Government and a UN statement released late on Friday.

There was no plan to replace the dollar, but rather to boost the use of local currencies, a Brazilian diplomat says.

As the world grapples with a failing multilateral system, and as seemingly never-ending crises continue to cause instability across the globe, Indonesia will practice a “bolder” free and active foreign policy to ensure its self-sufficiency and uphold ASEAN centrality, Foreign Minister Sugiono asserted during his first annual speech on Friday. 

The Indonesian Maritime Security Agency has signed a contract for a patrol vessel provided through grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) worth some 9 billion yen (US$57 billion).

Trump launched a series of evidence-free broadsides accusing Governor Gavin Newsom of a variety of failings -- including wasting water that could have been used to fight fires in order to protect a kind of fish.

China Coast Guard hosted Indonesian Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) in a first-ever high-level meeting in Beijing.

In mid-December, the US embassy revoked the passport of fugitive TJC, wanted by the US Marshals Service, making his presence in Indonesia illegal, leading to an investigation and his arrest.

"This is false, and we want to set the record straight, both for today's context and for the historical record," said the global network of fact-checking organizations, including AFP, after Zuckerberg announced an end to Meta's US program.

The EASA said in a safety bulletin that the conflict "poses the risk of civil aircraft being unintentionally targeted in the airspace of the Russian Federation, due to possible civil-military coordination deficiencies, and the potential for misidentification".

The Jakarta Post journalist Yvette Tanamal won the Best Print Journalist award at the 2025 Adam Malik Awards, bestowed by the Foreign Ministry for her reporting on Indonesia's diplomacy and other foreign affairs issues.

This does not mean the internationally-agreed 1.5C warming threshold has been permanently breached, but the Copernicus Climate Change Service said it was drawing dangerously near.

He made the statement just a week and a half before taking office, following promises during his campaign to bring peace to Ukraine, which has been under Russian invasion since February 2022.

The minister said Indonesia would continue to advocate for the completion of a code of conduct between the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN and China on the South China Sea and prioritise ASEAN's centrality. 

Swaths of the United States' second-largest city lay in ruins, with smoke blanketing the sky with an acrid smell pervading almost every building.

Denmark has said it is open to talks on US interests in the Arctic, but the prime minister has insisted that "Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders."

Among issues both leaders discussed while having a lunch in Kuala Lumpur were border issues, labor transfer, coordination on fisherfolk in conflicted areas along Malacca Strait and ASEAN Community Building, according to Anwar.

China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said it had found a cluster outbreak of the Ib subclade that started with the infection a foreigner who has a history of travel and residence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

Jamie Lee Curtis, Mandy Moore, Maria Shriver and other celebrities were among more than 100,000 people forced to evacuate their homes to escape the out-of-control fires burning in some of Los Angeles' most desirable areas.

Musk, the world's richest person and a close ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, last month endorsed a German anti-immigration party ahead of elections slated in February, and has repeatedly commented on British politics, demanding Prime Minister Keir Starmer resign.

President Prabowo Subianto and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim expected to discuss various bilateral and regional issues during the former's visit to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.

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The special aircraft carrying Prabowo and his delegation landed at the Bunga Raya Complex, Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) at 10.15 am.

French diplomats have acknowledged since late last year that talks were underway for the transfer of Serge Atlaoui, a 61-year-old Frenchman arrested in 2005 at a drugs factory outside Jakarta.

More than 100,000 people were ordered to evacuate as dry, hurricane-force winds hindered firefighting operations and spread the fires, which have burned parched terrain almost unimpeded since they began on Tuesday. 

The meeting between Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin and his Japanese counterpart Nakatani Gen in Jakarta serves as a prelude to an upcoming meeting between President Prabowo Subianto and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Indonesia.