Myanmar's leadership has been banned from top-level ASEAN meetings over their failure to implement a "five-point consensus" peace plan agreed with the bloc, which has made barely any progress.

Suu Kyi is serving a 27-year sentence, recently commuted by one-third, on a multitude of criminal charges that her allies say were fabricated to keep her out of politics.

Foreign Minister Sugiono leads a delegation comprising People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Ahmad Muzani to pay final respect for Iranian late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was buried in his home city of Mashhad on Friday.

Graham, known for his foreign policy work, was a staunch supporter of the Iran war and in recent years urged both Trump and the Biden administrations to back Kyiv's fight against Russia's invasion.

Other than commerce ties, Russia-Indonesia bilateral cooperation is also developing dynamically in the field of politics and security, military and military-technical cooperation, as well as between judicial and law enforcement agencies.

South Korea issued its first-ever emergency heatwave alert on Sunday under a new warning system launched this year, advising people to halt outdoor activities and keep cool.

US and Iranian forces exchanged heavy missile and drone strikes with Tehran targeting US facilities in states across the Gulf on Sunday after saying it had again closed the vital Strait of Hormuz.

Modi's visit, at the tail end of a July 6-11 tour that has also taken him to Indonesia and Australia, comes shortly after China test-fired a ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, stirring unease in the region.

While Bavi, which is gradually weakening, will not make landfall on Taiwan, the government is taking all precautions to prevent loss of life, given forecasts for almost 1 meter of rain in some areas.

It is just over three weeks since Washington and Tehran signed an agreement aimed at turning a months-long ceasefire into a durable peace, but the trading of fire for a second day in a row on Thursday threatened a return to full-scale regional war.

The true strength of the AOIP regional framework lies in practical cooperation across sustainable infrastructure, digital transformation, and economic security, ASEAN secretary general said.

Financial security emerged as the most important factor in forming a romantic relationship, with 81 percent of respondents identifying it as their top consideration.

The burial in Mashhad in northeast Iran follows a week of mass funeral processions, rallies and mourning ceremonies that has coincided with a renewed burst of conflict with the United States following weeks of truce in the four-month-old war.

Myanmar has been largely frozen out of the 11-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) since a military coup five years ago, but junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was installed as civilian president in April.

Ex-Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's visit to Jakarta is part of Indonesia's effort to intensify international cooperation with global leaders and other prominent figures amid recent geopolitical developments, according to the Presidential Secretariat.

India has long eyed Australia's uranium reserves to help meet a target of 100 gigawatts of nuclear energy capacity by 2047, while Australia is looking to diversify trade beyond its reliance on China, its top partner.

After Australia became the first country in the world to ban under-16s from social media, several EU nations including Denmark and Greece demanded a similar move.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio notified Congress of the long-expected move, which will be effective in 45 days unless lawmakers take the unlikely step of blocking it.

ASEAN member states need to find consensus before having negotiations on the South China Sea with China, according to United States Ambassador to ASEAN Kevin Kim.

President Prabowo Subianto and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded the latter's three-day state visit to Indonesia on Tuesday with a tour of Yogyakarta's iconic Prambanan Temple, underscoring the centuries-old cultural and civilizational ties that continue to shape relations between the two countries.

Both sides reported hitting dozens of targets, placing fresh strain on an interim deal to end their war and pushing oil prices to their highest level in two weeks.

The Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani), the country’s oldest women’s group, is aiming to strengthen women’s role in people-to-people diplomacy, said chairperson Yenny Wahid in her meeting with Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Indonesia Faisal bin Abdullah Al-Amudi.

The EASA said its bulletin for the airspaces of Iran and Iraq was valid until August 31.

The diversions come after a Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker and a Saudi-flagged crude oil tanker were damaged near the strait on Tuesday following reports that Iran fired missiles at ships in the waterway, prompting maritime authorities to raise the threat risk for transiting vessels to "severe."

The plane, operated by the private K2 Airways, had five crew members on board and was en route from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Karachi when it went missing on Tuesday evening after reporting a "navigational system issue," the authority said.

Despite rapid economic growth, millions of people in the world's most populous nation struggle to find stable and well-paying jobs, fuelling discontent.

The US military unleashed a new wave of strikes against Iran on Tuesday and revoked a license allowing the country to sell oil after three tankers were hit by projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz, putting pressure on an already fragile ceasefire.