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.

While Mamdani's rise is dominating headlines, off-year elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey will be seen as even more critical gauges of the US political mood nearly 10 months into Trump's bruising right-wing reign.

Fidan spoke after he and ministers from several Muslim-majority countries met in Istanbul to discuss the fragile US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, as Hamas and Israel trade accusations of violations. 

Turkey will welcome the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan and Indonesia in Istanbul on Monday.

The moment of levity underscored how the two leaders had grown closer during a series of encounters over two days, the South Korean president's spokesman said.

Traces of radioactive Caesium-137 were detected in the 23 containers in Indonesia, which "rejected and reexported" them back to the Philippines, an official in Jakarta said Friday.

Asked by an AFP reporter aboard Air Force One if he was considering US troops on the ground in Nigeria or air strikes, Trump replied: "Could be, I mean, a lot of things -- I envisage a lot of things." 

Trump was interviewed Friday by CBS's "60 Minutes" program, his first sit-down with the broadcaster since it agreed to a $16 million settlement with him.

A deal under which Islamabad will take delivery of eight Hangor-class submarines by 2028 is "progressing smoothly," Admiral Naveed Ashraf told the Global Times in an interview published on Sunday, adding the submarines would boost Pakistan's ability to patrol the North Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.

President Prabowo Subianto and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung have expressed their hope to continue the two countries’ defense cooperation, including on existing collaboration to develop fighter jets, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju.

More than 25,000 schoolchildren had already joined the agency's "temporary learning spaces", while some 300,000 would follow online classes, according to the United Natons agency for Palestinian refugees.

The latest to be charged, a 38-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man, were arrested on Wednesday along with three other individuals, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said.

The United States Secretary of Defense proposed to ASEAN defense ministers the building of shared maritime domain awareness and said China had shown a lack of respect and threatened their territorial sovereignty.