Since emerging from decades of brutal occupation in 2002 on the back of an independence vote 25 years ago, Asia's youngest nation has made remarkable political strides in its short history.

The 99-year-old Mahathir, who served as prime minister for more two decades, has a history of heart problems and has undergone bypass surgeries. He has been in and out of hospital in recent years, and was last hospitalized in July. 

Two Singapore air force F-15SG jets scrambled and escorted Air India flight AXB684 away from populated areas after the airline received an email that there was a bomb on board its plane, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said in a Facebook post. 

"China is willing to be a partner and friend with the United States. This will benefit not only the two countries, but the world," Xi said in remarks from a letter to the 2024 annual awards dinner of the National Committee on US-China Relations, according to a CCTV news report.

An Indian government committee investigating Indian involvement in the foiled murder plot will meet US officials in Washington this week, the State Department said on Monday.

US President Joe Biden has cautioned Israel against striking Iran's nuclear or oil facilities to avoid a further regional escalation and amid concerns over global energy prices.

China has deployed military and coast guard vessels in recent months in a bid to eject the Philippines from a trio of other strategically important reefs and islands in the South China Sea.

Israel has vowed to counterattack after Iran fired ballistic missiles at the country on October 1, launched in response to Israel's killing of Tehran-aligned militant leaders in the region, along with a general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

Indonesia will continue supporting the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday, amid growing concerns over the safety of peacekeepers in the conflict-hit country after a continuous string of Israeli attacks.

Xi Jinping said Monday that China is willing to work with Indonesia to jointly promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, ensure the sustainable operation of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, and create more highlights of cooperation to better benefit the people of both countries, Chinese state media Xinhua reported. 

Simon Johnson and James Robinson, both British-American, and Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu were commended for their work on "how institutions are formed and affect prosperity", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called for caution from Indonesian Military (TNI) members deployed as part of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, which has seen rising aggression from Israel in the past weeks.

US President Joe Biden said the move was meant "to defend Israel,"which is weighing an expected retaliation against Iran after Tehran fired more than 180 missiles at Israel on Oct 1. 

His call to UN chief Antonio Guterres came a day after the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) repeated its refusal to withdraw from the border area after five of its members were wounded in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

Beijing has not ruled out using force to bring Taiwan under its control and Monday's drills represent its fourth round of large-scale war games in the past two years.

The ASEAN statement called for confidence-building measures that could "reduce tensions and the risk of accidents, misunderstandings and miscalculation" in the South China Sea.

ASEAN has agreed to promote safe artificial intelligence systems with the United States and to eradicate online crimes with China, which has become a prominent issue in Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia.

Chinese ambassador-designate Wang Lutong arrived in Jakarta on Saturday with a mission to foster bilateral ties with the country he described as Beijing’s strategic partner and a “key member of ASEAN”.

As Athens marks 80 years since its liberation from Nazi Germany in World War II this weekend, historians lament that a modest memorial standing in a former Hitler's secret police Gestapo headquarters is typical of the lack of attention paid to one of the most horrific periods in Greece's history.

While those living outside hurricane-prone zones may wonder why their residents choose to stay, it is easy to see Siesta Key's appeal, even after a hurricane.

With the average age among the roughly 105,000 hibakusha still alive now 85, it is vital that young people continue to be taught about what happened.

The two countries on Saturday also agreed to boost economic ties, with China pledging to further open its market for Vietnamese farm produce while Vietnam would facilitate Chinese investment.

Israel had asked UNIFIL to withdraw from positions "up to five kilometers from the Blue Line" separating both countries, but the peacekeepers refused.

The glacial ice in the southern Osh region was destroyed when a private company "illegally built a road to a coal mine" in the area, allegedly in collusion with a state-owned firm, prosecutors said on Thursday.

The key to its success was inventing a currency to encourage collection: each 250 grams of plastic collected can be redeemed for a plastic coin, which in turn can be traded for a range of goods at a store run by the charity.

While Mimaki said the prize would give a major boost to his group's efforts to demonstrate that it was possible to abolish nuclear weapons, he acknowledged that many countries seemed uninterested in seeing a world without them.

Latin America's biggest economy is struggling with what Finance Minister Fernando Haddad has called a betting "pandemic," prompting the government to tighten the screws on the sector.