UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 — United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres denounced yesterday a growing number of governments and other groups who feel they are “entitled to a get out of jail free card”, citing wars in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip and Sudan.

NEW YORK, Sept 25 — The European Central Bank (ECB) has started issuing fine notices to lenders not meeting its long-defined expectations on disclosing and managing climate risk, Irene Heemskerk, the head of ECB’s climate change centre, told Reuters yesterday.

LONDON/SINGAPORE, Sept 24 — World stocks hit a record high on Tuesday after China unveiled stimulus measures to support its economy and stock markets, sending Asian and European shares higher and triggering a bounce in commodity prices.

COLOMBO, Sept 24 — Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake named Harini Amarasuriya, a college professor and first-time lawmaker, as the new Prime Minister of the Indian Ocean island nation today, making her the third woman to be appointed to the post.

SINGAPORE, Sept 24 — Singapore commissioned two new advanced submarines today, which its Navy says are meant to protect sea lines of communication, and which experts said would range beyond the waters of the tiny city-state to keep tabs on the region.

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MUMBAI, Sept 24 — Indian refiners cancelled 100,000 metric tons of palm oil purchases for delivery between October and December, as New Delhi's move to raise import duties amid a rally in overseas prices prompted them to book profits, five trade officials told Reuters.

ROME, Sept 24 — Pope Francis has called for the liberation of Myanmar’s detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and offered the Vatican as a safe haven, the pontiff said in a recent conversation with Jesuits in Asia.

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NEW YORK, Sept 24 — California and several environmental groups sued Exxon Mobil yesterday and accused the oil giant of engaging in a decades-long campaign that helped fuel global plastic waste pollution.

NEW YORK, Sept 24 — Developing nations yesterday pleaded at the United Nations General Assembly for the world’s richest to do more to help them cope with the hardships they face from climate extremes.

BANGKOK, Sept 23 — Thailand will postpone a hike in the minimum wage to 400 baht (RM51.03) per day scheduled for October 1 by about two weeks due to a lack of a quorum at meetings of the committee working on the increase, a senior labour official said today.

DELAWARE, Sept 23 — AstraZeneca said today its experimental precision drug developed with Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo does not significantly improve overall survival for patients with a type of breast cancer in a late-stage trial.

HANOI, Sept 23 — South Korean electronic manufacturer Samsung Display Co plans to invest US$1.8 billion for a factory this year in northern Vietnam to produce OLED displays for automobiles and technology equipment, the Southeast Asian country said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON, Sept 23 — Republican Donald Trump said that he will not make a fourth consecutive run for the US presidency if he loses the November 5 election, saying “that will be it” in an interview released on Sunday.

TOKYO/SHANGHAI/TAIPEI, Sept 23 — The lethal hack of Hezbollah’s Asian-branded pagers and walkie-talkies has sparked an intense search for the devices’ path, revealing a murky market for older technologies where buyers may have few assurances about what they are getting.

SYDNEY, Sept 23 — Asian stocks were steady on Monday ahead of central bank meetings that are widely expected to deliver two more rate cuts and key US inflation figures that should flash a green light for more easing there.

SINGAPORE, Sept 22 — McLaren’s Lando Norris dominated the Singapore Grand Prix from start to finish today to take another chunk out of Max Verstappen’s Formula One championship lead.

CAIRO, Sept 22 — Al Jazeera TV said this morning Israeli forces stormed its bureau in the West Bank’s Ramallah city with a military order to close it for 45 days.

WASHINGTON, Sept 22 — The United States Commerce Department is expected on Monday to propose prohibiting Chinese software and hardware in connected and autonomous vehicles on American roads due to national security concerns, two sources told Reuters.