PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday a peace plan submitted by the U.S. to end the war between Ukraine and Russia was a good basis for work but needed to be revisited, taking the Europeans on board.
Armed men posing as bank officials robbed a van transporting cash between bank branches in Bengaluru city.
Koh was nominated for playing a drag queen in A Good Child.
The two pandas are due to return to China in February.
JOHANNESBURG - European leaders said in a joint statement on Saturday that a 28-point U.S. plan for peace in Ukraine, which has been seeking to repel Russian forces since 2022, was a basis that \"requires additional work\".
JOHANNESBURG/KYIV - European and other Western leaders meeting on the sidelines of a G20 summit scrambled on Saturday to come up with a coordinated response to U.S. President Donald Trump's demand for Ukraine to accept his peace plan with Russia by Thursday.
Madam Indira Gandhi's ex-husband vanished with their 11-month-old daughter Prasana after he changed religion in 2009.
BISHKEK - Kyrgyz law enforcement on Saturday carried out a series of arrests, searches and interrogations of opposition figures and journalists as part of what authorities said was a probe into calls for \"mass unrest\" ahead of a snap parliamentary election on Nov 30.
The New York Post, which Trump once called his “favorite newspaper”, just published what it claims to be all 28 points of the Russia-Ukraine peace deal framework that Russia and the US have reportedly been working on in secret over the past few weeks. What follows is the text
The Royal Thai Army said border-protection units are monitoring the situation around the clock.
MOSCOW - The possibility of another meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump is on the agenda, a senior Russian diplomat has said.
The epicentre of the 3.3-magnitude tremor was in Ashulia, just north of the capital Dhaka.
WARSAW - Any peace plan for Ukraine must be accepted in Kyiv, Polish President Karol Nawrocki said, after the U.S. signalled to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Ukraine must accept a U.S.-drafted framework to end its conflict with Russia.
The suspect, a sergeant first class, is an acquaintance of the woman, according to sources.
The ban applies to all international and domestic flights operated by these airlines.
America has slipped into a conflict it refuses to name. The signs aren’t subtle. They aren’t even undeniable. They are simply scattered across headlines, Pentagon statements, satellite images and the unmistakable roar of carrier groups shifting into position. If this isn’t war
The ministry said the number of Chinese nationals murdered stood at 15 in both 2023 and 2024.
Indonesia’s Jakarta–Bandung high-speed rail, known as Whoosh, was launched as a statement of national ambition—proof that Southeast Asia’s largest economy could adopt cutting-edge transport infrastructure. Yet as operations continue, the project now faces a deeper test: a
Those in the area were told to get to higher ground and prepare to evacuate if necessary.
Sichuan Airlines has also decided to cancel all flights between Chengdu and Sapporo from Jan 1 to March 28.
11 former high-ranking officials were also indicted.
The King of Malaysia, Sultan Ibrahim, will launch the service in Johor Bahru on Dec 11.
David Neo had said in a social media post that he should have been more respectful.
Labour groups support the move, saying it will help to ease elderly poverty, but business groups warn that younger workers will suffer.
The Trump administration is celebrating what the president called “one of the biggest approvals in the History of the United Nations” following the UN Security Council’s endorsement of his Gaza peace plan. With 13 votes in favor and strategic abstentions from Russia and China,
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi committed "a grave violation of international law" and diplomatic norms when she said a Chinese attack on Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo, said a senior Chinese official in a letter to the UN on Nov 21.
When the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee convened on November 19 for the hearing “No Exit Strategy: Burma’s Endless Crisis and America’s Limited Options,” the testimony sounded remarkably familiar. To those of us who have been sounding the alarm since the start of the
BEIJING - The U.S. and Chinese militaries this week held \"frank and constructive\" maritime security talks, the Chinese navy said on Saturday, as the two superpowers gradually restore military-to-military communications after several months of trade tensions.
Vietnam's disaster agency said 13 people had been reported missing.
The Takaichi cabinet approved a 21.3 trillion yen (US$136.25 billion) stimulus package on Friday (November 21) that includes a 17.7 trillion yen ($113.21 billion) supplemental budget. The latter will be submitted to the Diet for passage this session. The total amount, including
Several financial institutions have raised their growth forecasts for Malaysia, with HSBC the latest to lift its 2025 GDP projection from 4.2 per cent to 5 per cent.
JAKARTA - Indonesia's biggest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama, has asked its chief to resign for inviting a U.S. scholar known for his support of Israel during the Gaza war to an internal event in August, according to meeting minutes reviewed by Reuters.
Nitama served as the second cat stationmaster at Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture.
JOHANNESBURG - Leaders of the Group of 20 top economies gathered for a U.S.-boycotted summit in South Africa on Saturday, seeking a deal on a draft declaration drawn up without U.S. input in a surprise move that a senior White House official described as \"shameful\".
Most players come from underprivileged, rural backgrounds and learned the sport in the last few years.
BELEM, Brazil - Turkey will host the COP31 climate summit in 2026 with Australia leading the negotiation process, a document released at the COP30 summit in Brazil showed on Friday, confirming an earlier announcement that a split hosting arrangement was expected.
The Dutch government’s latest decision to halt its intervention in Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, may ease tensions with Beijing but it underscores what analysts describe as an accelerating Western push to decouple from China’s semiconductor supply chain. To understand
SYDNEY - The Australian city of Darwin on Saturday shut its international airport as a precaution over a tropical cyclone forecast to bring destructive winds and flooding to the country's north.
Universities from the UK, the US, Australia and Europe are setting up offshore campuses in India.
China is on the rampage after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said what was neither new nor surprising – that Taiwan is immensely important to Japan, and that Japan may consider coming to Taiwan’s defense if China attacks. In response, China’s Consul General in Osaka said on
BELEM, Brazil - The host of the COP30 conference in Brazil urged countries to unite for a deal to strengthen international climate efforts on Friday, as a showdown loomed in the summit's final hours over whether the accord should set the world on a clearer path away from fossil
LONDON - An independent director on the BBC's board, Shumeet Banerji, has quit on Friday in the wake of what the public broadcaster said was an incorrect edit of a speech by President Donald Trump and which has prompted the threat of a $5 billion lawsuit.
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that U.S. proposals for peace in Ukraine could be the basis of a resolution of the conflict but that if Kyiv turned down the plan then Russian forces would advance further.