In a post on X announcing the move to cut the contracts with Agence France-Presse (AFP), Reuters and The Associated Press, former journalist-turned-politician and staunch Trump loyalist Kari Lake said: "We should not be paying outside news companies to tell us what the news is."

"This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work," the leading scientific institution said.

Complying with the International Criminal Court warrant tied to his predecessor's deadly drug war was simply a matter of the Philippines meeting its international obligations, he told reporters.

The airline said all 172 passengers and six crew members on board had been able to exit the plane, though six passengers were taken to a local hospital afterward for further evaluation.

Wearing matching red T-shirts emblazoned with "Jews say stop arming Israel," the group protested for over an hour inside the Manhattan skyscraper, where President Donald Trump's family business is headquartered and he has a personal residence.

Richer nations committed at the UN COP29 summit in November to boost spending on climate action in developing countries to $300 billion a year by 2035, an amount decried as woefully inadequate.

Mahmoud Khalil was a prominent activist at Columbia, which experienced some of the biggest protests against Israel's military assault on Gaza that followed Hamas' October 2023 attack. Washington has designated Hamas a foreign terrorist organization.

Singapore is the third Southeast Asian nation, after Malaysia and Indonesia, with which Vietnam has established a "comprehensive strategic relationship".

While vote counting was not yet complete on Wednesday morning, the Democratic party -- which describes itself as "social liberal" and has also called for independence but in the longer term -- held an insurmountable lead, Greenland's public broadcaster KNR said.

The 79-year-old faces a charge of "the crime against humanity of murder", according to the ICC, for a crackdown that rights groups estimate killed tens of thousands of mostly poor men, often without proof they were linked to drugs.

Other former Philippine leaders have been arrested before, including Joseph Estrada in 2001 and Gloria Arroyo in 2011, both on graft charges, but Duterte is the first potentially to face an international tribunal.

In a video partly filmed alongside a vessel belonging to the Philippine Coast Guard, Lammy on Monday condemned "dangerous and destabilising activities" by Beijing in the South China Sea.

Vietnamese Communist Party general secretary To Lam held talks with President Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta to boost economic and defence cooperation.

"Early in the morning, Interpol Manila received the official copy of the warrant of the arrest from the ICC," the palace said in a statement.

Vietnam’s Communist Party general secretary To Lam received a warm welcome at Jakarta’s State Palace on Monday, in his first visit to Indonesia since the inauguration of President Prabowo Subianto late last year and marking the 70th anniversary of Vietnam-Indonesia relations. 

Multiple missile systems are being considered by Indonesia, not just those from BrahMos, spokesperson Frega Wenas said after Indonesia's defence minister met with his counterpart from Vietnam, although he declined to name the other companies.

The "war on drugs" was the signature campaign policy that swept Duterte to power in 2016 as a maverick, crime-busting mayor, who delivered on promises he made during vitriolic speeches to kill thousands of narcotics dealers.

Iran's mission to the United Nations had indicated Sunday that Tehran might be open to talks aimed at addressing US concerns about the potential militarisation of its nuclear programme -- though not to ending the program completely.

Mark Carney's path to the top job in Canadian politics has been unusual but, as he said when he launched his campaign to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, so are the circumstances.

Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent faces in the campus's protest movement that erupted in response to Israel's conduct of the war, was arrested Saturday, the Student Workers of Columbia union said.

Muslim nations under the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), including Indonesia, face a tough challenge to realize their call for the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping forces in war-torn Gaza in the face of the United States’ proposal to depopulate the region.

Unlike the Trump plan, the Arab proposal aims to rebuild Gaza without displacing the territory's 2.4 million inhabitants, who endured more than 15 months of devastating conflict before a fragile ceasefire took effect on Jan. 19.

The plane's disappearance has long been the subject of theories, ranging from the credible to outlandish, including that veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had gone rogue.

Yoon remains suspended from his duties, and his criminal and impeachment trials continue over his short-lived martial law imposition on Dec. 3.

The first phase of the Gaza ceasefire ended on March 1 after six weeks of relative calm that included exchanges of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, though hostilities have not resumed.

The pope has suffered a series of health issues in recent years, from colon surgery in 2021 to a hernia operation in 2023, but this is the longest and most serious hospitalization of his papacy.

Myanmar has been turmoil since early 2021, when the military ousted an elected civilian government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, triggering a protest movement that morphed into an armed rebellion against the junta across the Southeast Asian country.