The presidency in Jakarta confirmed to AFP that Prabowo would leave Sunday evening.

China on Sunday unveiled 10 new incentive measures for Taiwan, including easing tourist curbs, allowing in "healthy" television dramas and facilitating food sales, following a visit by the island's opposition leader.

Filipinos like their pares (traditional beef stew) served hot -- but the soaring cost of liquefied petroleum gas has made that prospect increasingly difficult since war erupted in the Middle East.

Police in London said they had arrested more than 500 pro-Palestinian protesters at a demonstration in support of the banned group Palestine Action on Saturday.

"The Iranian delegation negotiated continuously and intensively for 21 hours in order to protect the national interests of the Iranian people; despite various initiatives from the Iranian delegation, the unreasonable demands of the American side prevented the progress of the negotiations. Thus the negotiations ended," IRIB said on Telegram.

Vance boarded Air Force Two at 7:08 am (0208 GMT) and waved to Pakistani officials from the top of the stairs.

Pope Leo has urged world leaders to end what he called the "madness of war," in an impassioned appeal as senior US and Iranian officials met in Pakistan to discuss ending the six-week conflict.

The talks in Islamabad were the first direct US-Iranian meeting in more than a decade and the highest-level discussions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Roscosmos chief said the Soyuz-5 would be the first new launch vehicle developed in Russia since 2014.

Artemis II was the inaugural crewed mission of NASA's program aiming to install a sustained presence on the Moon.

In a break with precedent, Iranian and US officials were meeting directly, alongside Pakistan, and not speaking through mediators who shuttled between rooms.

Around 20 percent to 25 percent of Indonesia's crude oil imports are sourced from the Middle East and the government has said it is boosting imports from other places such as Angola and Nigeria to ensure enough supply at home.

For the US-Iran talks, Islamabad, a city of more than 2 million people, was locked down with thousands of paramilitary personnel and army troops on the streets.

Out of ten countries who pledged funds, only three had contributed funding, namely the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and the United States itself, according to sources.

Israel 'agreed to begin formal peace negotiations' with the Lebanese government, with which it has no diplomatic relations, said Israeli ambassador Yechiel Leiter.

"NATO is a defensive alliance, which for decades has kept us much safer than we would otherwise have been," Starmer says.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose country host the negotiation, said making progress at the Islamabad talks would be hard work.

Indonesia has rallied more than 70 countries to condemn “in the strongest terms” the attacks on United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon, calling for urgent UN investigation and accountability following deadly incidents that killed Indonesian personnel.

United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Indonesia Abdulla Salem Al Dhaheri hopes the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran brings ‘a long lasting’ peace in the region.

While Iran agreed to reopen the thoroughfare during the two-week truce with the United States, it has also spoken of a toll system to fund reconstruction following punishing US-Israeli attacks.

In his inauguration address to parliament, the former junta chief said peace and democracy was his priority, and his government would spur foreign investment, develop agriculture and form effective, long-term strategic plans.

In the joint statement, the countries urged the UN Security Council to conduct a thorough investigation into the incidents in Southern Lebanon that killed three Indonesian peacekeepers and wounded several others, including from France, Ghana, Nepal, and Poland.

The Kremlin said earlier this week that there were a huge number of requests for Russian energy from different countries amid a global energy crisis that was shaking the foundations of the oil and gas markets.

The Indonesian Embassy in Tehran is preparing plans to repatriate more Indonesian citizens from Iran, including 35 crew members aboard vessels off the Iranian coast.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the United States and Iran -- and their allies had -- agreed to a ceasefire "everywhere" following mediation by his government.

The Philippine Coast Guard unveiled on Thursday its first dedicated command center in the Spratly island chain, a flashpoint in the disputed South China Sea that has been the site of repeated confrontations with Chinese vessels.

The strikes raised questions about regional truce efforts, with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian saying a ceasefire inLebanon was an essential condition of his country's agreement with the US.