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Middle East and Africa

Hamas accepts new Gaza truce plan

Mediators Egypt and Qatar, backed by the United States, have struggled to secure a lasting truce in the conflict, which has triggered a dire humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

6 months ago
Europe

Putin and Zelensky set for peace summit after Trump talks

Hopes of a breakthrough rose after Trump said he had spoken by phone with Russian counterpart Putin -- whom he met in Alaska last week -- following a "very good" meeting with the Europeans and the Ukrainian president at the White House. ...

6 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Myanmar junta sets Dec. 28 poll date despite raging civil war

Myanmar's junta said Monday that long-promised elections will start on December 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the country out of its control, and international monitors slating the poll as a charade. ...

6 months ago

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Asia & Pacific

India, China envoys discuss border peace, trade to boost cooperation

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Monday discussed border peace, trade issues and bilateral exchanges, aiming to strengthen cooperation between the two countries.

6 months ago
Middle East and Africa

Hamas accepts new Gaza truce plan: Hamas official

Hamas has accepted a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a senior member from the group said Monday, after a fresh diplomatic push to end more than 22 months of war.

6 months ago
Europe

Trump says arranging Putin-Zelensky peace summit

US President Donald Trump said Monday he had started arranging a peace summit between Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia's Vladimir Putin, after intensive talks with Zelensky and European leaders at the White House.

6 months ago
Asia & Pacific premium

Indonesians abroad celebrate Independence Day amid turmoil

Pockets of Indonesia’s diaspora community, estimated to be six million, came together in the hundreds or thousands to participate in flag-raising ceremonies, tumpeng (yellow rice) cutting celebrations and a plethora of traditional games, gathering from Geneva, Tehran, Islamabad, Den Haag and Kuala Lumpur against the backdrop of an increasingly complicated geopolitical landscape. 

6 months ago
Americas

Air Canada grounded as striking union defies order to get back to work

Air Canada's fleet of hundreds of planes remained grounded on Monday morning after striking flight attendants refused a government-backed order to get back to work and called on the airline to return to the bargaining table.

6 months ago
Middle East and Africa

Iranians struggle with GPS disruption after Israel war

"For weeks I have been unable to work," said Fooladi, who uses Iran's homegrown ride-hailing app Snapp to find customers. "Most of the time was wasted wandering around aimlessly," the 35-year-old Iranian driver added. 

6 months ago
Asia & Pacific

German foreign minister criticizes China ahead of trip to Japan, Indonesia

Speaking to reporters, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul praised Japan's solidarity with Europe over Ukraine as he prepared to board a plane, and highlighted the importance and economic potential of the two populous Asian countries.

6 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Japan's peace legacy tested 80 years after WWII

Japan's role as a peace promoter faces increasing challenges in a conflict-prone world, even as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba reiterated on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II the importance of maintaining "remorse" and the lessons learned from the deadly war.

6 months ago
Middle East and Africa

Mass rally in Tel Aviv calls for end to Gaza war, hostage deal

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered on Sunday evening in Tel Aviv to call for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of hostages, one of the largest demonstrations in Israel since the start of the fighting in October 2023.

6 months ago
Europe

Fires keep burning in western Spain as army is deployed

As Spain enters its third week of heatwave alerts, firefighters continue to battle blazes in the northwest and west of the country, with army units deployed to help contain the blazes.

6 months ago
Europe

Trump gives Putin 'peace letter' from wife Melania

The first lady's office on Saturday reposted a Fox News article on X containing the short letter, a day after Trump and Putin failed to find a breakthrough at their high-stakes meeting.

6 months ago
Middle East and Africa

US suspends visas for Gazans after far-right influencer posts

Loomer's target was the US-based charity HEAL Palestine, which said last week it had helped 11 critically wounded Gazan children, as well as their caregivers and siblings, arrive safely in the US for medical treatment.

6 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Former pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker granted asylum in Australia

Hui, a high-profile participant at the time who has since resettled in Adelaide, said the Australian government had granted him a protection visa this week, with asylum also extending to his wife, children and parents.

6 months ago
Europe

Trump drops Ukraine ceasefire demand after Putin summit

Donald Trump on Saturday dropped his push for a ceasefire in Ukraine in favor of pursuing a full peace accord -- a major shift announced hours after his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin yielded no clear breakthrough.

6 months ago
Middle East and Africa

Israeli military prepares to relocate residents to southern Gaza, spokesperson says

Gaza residents will be provided with tents and other shelter equipment starting from Sunday ahead of relocating them from combat zones to the south of the enclave "to ensure their safety," the Israeli military said on Saturday.

6 months ago
Americas

Louisiana sues Roblox game platform over child safety

The lawsuit charges Roblox with "knowingly and intentionally" failing to implement basic safety controls to protect children.

6 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Pakistan monsoon death toll rises to 225 in 48 hours: Disaster agency

The majority of the deaths, 211, were recorded in mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.

6 months ago
Middle East and Africa

At least 1,760 Gazans killed while seeking aid since late May: UN

The Israeli military said its troops were working to "dismantle Hamas military capabilities", adding its forces were taking precautions "to mitigate civilian harm".

6 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Japan's emperor expresses 'deep remorse' 80 years after WWII

Naruhito said he felt "a deep and renewed sense of sorrow" in a sombre speech alongside Empress Masako in an indoor arena in the centre of the Japanese capital, where the national flag flew at half-mast outside.

6 months ago
Middle East and Africa

Israel in talks to resettle Gaza Palestinians in South Sudan, sources say

The plan, if carried further, would envisage people moving from an enclave shattered by almost two years of war with Israel to a nation in the heart of Africa riven by years of political and ethnically-driven violence.

6 months ago
Americas

Trump-Putin summit yields no deal on ending war in Ukraine

The talks did not initially appear to have produced meaningful steps toward a ceasefire in the deadliest conflict in Europe in 80 years, or toward a subsequent meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, both goals Trump had set ahead of the summit.

6 months ago
Middle East and Africa premium

Indonesia rejects Netanyahu’s Greater Israel vision

First emerging in the 19th century as a Zionist, messianic vision of Israel’s borders, the term Greater Israel according to traditional texts referred the totality of area stretching from “the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates”, or present-day Gaza, West Bank, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

6 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Bakamla brings home Indonesians from S. Korea, Philippines

Bakamla successfully brought home nine Indonesians from South Korea and the Philippines in two separate incidents.

6 months ago
Europe

Global plastic pollution treaty talks extended in 'haze' of confusion

Talks on striking a global treaty on combating plastic pollution were extended an extra day into Friday but with no clear endgame in sight.

6 months ago
Europe

Trump vows not to be intimidated by Putin

Putin flies to Alaska on Friday at the invitation of Trump in his first visit to a Western country since he ordered the 2022 invasion of Ukraine that has killed tens of thousands of people.

6 months ago
Europe

Spain suffers third wildfire death, Greece beats back flames

Spain on Thursday mourned its third wildfire death this week and Greece began beating back a blaze threatening its third-largest city as an unrelenting heatwave stoked tinderbox conditions in southern Europe.

6 months ago
Americas

YouTube turns to AI to spot children posing as adults

YouTube has started using artificial intelligence (AI) to figure out when users are children pretending to be adults on the popular video-sharing platform amid pressure to protect minors from sensitive content.

6 months ago
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