With the rise of Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, a group of well-connected and well-off Republican women have come into the spotlight sporting what the US media have dubbed the "MAGA look."

Tim Davie and the broadcaster's head of news, Deborah Turness, resigned after accusations that a documentary by its flagship Panorama program had edited a speech by Trump in a misleading way.

The government had directed drugmakers in late 2023 to upgrade plants to norms recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), including measures to prevent cross-contamination and enable batch testing.

Trump has claimed Afrikaners face persecution based on their race in the Black-majority country, allegations the South African government has denied.

Home to 2.7 million Palestinians, the West Bank has long been at the heart of plans for a future Palestinian state existing alongside Israel, but successive Israeli governments have expanded settlements rapidly, fragmenting the land.

Bolsonaro has been under house arrest for three months for violating precautionary measures related to his alleged attempts to persuade United States President Donald Trump to interfere in his criminal case.

Sandiford was released on humanitarian grounds along with Shahab Shahabadi, 36, who had been serving a life sentence for drug offenses after his arrest in 2014.

Despite making extensive appearances on various international stages, President Prabowo Subianto may have missed several important opportunities due to diplomatic efforts driven more by instinct rather than coherent strategy, experts have said.

US President Donald Trump appealed directly to China's Xi Jinping to free jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai when the two leaders met in South Korea last week, according to three people briefed on the talks and a US administration official.

In November last year, Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said it had launched a joint investigation with its French counterparts into "suspected bribery and corruption" at the multinational, which denies any wrongdoing.

Plans for the data centre on the tiny island located 350 km (220 miles) south of Indonesia have not previously been reported, and many details including its projected size, cost and potential uses, remain secret.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States had lost "sovereignty" after New Yorkers elected leftist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor.

Indonesia's schools minister marked a milestone for the country on Tuesday when he addressed the ongoing UNESCO general conference in Uzbekistan using his mother tongue, while urging protection for education as a fundamental right in conflict zones, including Gaza.

Dozens of country leaders will gather on Thursday in Brazil’s Amazon city of Belem ahead of the annual UN summit on climate change, hoping to advance progress despite growing concerns that multilateral cooperation is on the brink.

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 142 people and left another 127 missing after unleashing devastating flooding across the central Philippines, official figures showed Thursday, as the storm headed towards Vietnam.

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Wednesday that he would order a 10 percent cut in flights at 40 major US airports, citing air traffic control safety concerns as a government shutdown hit a record 36th day.

Police raided seven buildings in the northern port city of Hamburg, where the Muslim Interaktiv group was based, as the ban was announced.

Flames from the crash, which occurred shortly before sundown, ignited a string of fires on the ground in an industrial corridor adjacent to the airport, forcing authorities to halt airport operations through the night, according to officials.

The purchase is widely seen as another example of Orban's business allies buying media outlets, with expectations that it will be turned into another pro-ruling party organ.

President Prabowo Subianto has said the Air Force’s newly arrived Airbus A400M heavy transport aircraft could be deployed for humanitarian missions, including possible evacuations of wounded civilians from war-torn Gaza.

The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines climbed to 66 on Wednesday as residents of hardest-hit Cebu province began picking through homes and businesses devastated by the worst flooding in recent memory.

In New York City, Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, won the mayoral race, capping a meteoric and unlikely rise from an anonymous state lawmaker to one of the country's most visible Democratic figures. And in Virginia and New Jersey, moderate Democrats Abigail Spanberger, 46, and Mikie Sherill, 53, won their elections for governor with commanding leads, respectively.

The United States has drafted a United Nations resolution that approves a two-year mandate for a Gaza transitional governance body and an international stabilization force in the Palestinian enclave, according to the text seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

EU climate ministers struck a tentative deal on a 2040 climate change target in the early hours of Wednesday after watering down the goal in last-minute negotiations, a draft EU document showed, as they raced to clinch the deal before the UN COP30 summit in Brazil.

Around 10,000 Indonesians have been ensnared in scam and human trafficking networks across Southeast Asia since 2020, according to a figure from the Foreign Ministry.

Reconciliation between Palestinian militant group Hamas and its rival West Bank-based Palestinian Authroity will bear fruit as soon as possible, as inter-Palestinian unity would strengthen Palestine's representation in the international community, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan after a meeting of Muslim nations top diplomats in Istanbul.

In August, the ministry overseeing primary education issued a circular announcing the recruitment of music teachers -- a decision that the interim government has now reversed.