TOKYO, Sept 19 — Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have filed a patent infringement suit against the producer of hit survival adventure game Palworld, the companies said today.

THE HAGUE, Sept 19 — An international law enforcement operation has dismantled an encrypted communication platform, known as Ghost, notorious for enabling large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering, Europol said yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 19 — The United Nations General Assembly yesterday adopted a Palestinian-drafted resolution that demands Israel end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within 12 months.

COLOMBO, Sept 18 — Just over two years since Sri Lanka's 'Aragalaya' uprising that deposed the nation's president, the movement that sparked the mass struggle is rallying behind Anura Kumara Dissanayake to lead the fight against corruption and revive a broken economy.

JAKARTA, Sept 18 — Alphabet Inc's YouTube and e-commerce platform Shopee have said they are launching an online shopping service in Indonesia and planned to expand it in Southeast Asia as competition picks up with a rival operator owned by TikTok.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 — Typhoon Yagi has unleashed devastating floods and landslides across Southeast Asia, leaving nearly six million children vulnerable and cutting off access to vital resources such as clean water, education, healthcare, food, and shelter, said the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) today.

AMMAN, Sept 18 — Jordan's King Abdullah II swore in a reformist government today tasked with accelerating International Monetary Fund (IMF)-backed reforms and pushing through political and economic modernisation crucial to reversing a decade of sluggish growth.

NEW DELHI, Sept 18 — India's Cabinet has accepted a recommendation to hold simultaneous elections to state assemblies and the national Parliament, said its Information Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw today, a move pushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to improve governance.

BANGKOK, Sept 18 — Thailand will prosecute eight former security personnel over their roles in a crackdown two decades ago in which 78 protesters suffocated or were crushed to death when crammed into army trucks, said the Attorney-General's Office today.

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 — Tupperware, maker of the iconic plastic food containers, has filed for bankruptcy in the United States after years of financial struggles, reported the German Press Agency.

JAKARTA, Sept 18 — Indonesia is currently short of 120,000 general practitioners, according to its Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono Harbuwono.

CALIFORNIA, Sept 18— Meta Platforms is rolling out enhanced privacy and parental controls for Instagram accounts of users under 18 in a significant overhaul aimed at addressing growing concerns around the negative effects of social media.

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 — California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law yesterday that aim to help performers protect their digital replicas in audio and visual productions from artificial intelligence (AI), the governor’s office said.

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 — Microsoft said on Monday that its board has approved a new share buyback programme of up to US$60 billion (RM255.07 billion).

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 — States neighbouring Myanmar must set aside politics and open their borders to allow international humanitarian aid to reach the people of Myanmar through resistance authorities and civil society networks, said the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M).

GENEVA, Sept 17 — Myanmar's military government has ramped up killings and arrests in an apparent bid to silence opponents and recruit soldiers in an escalating conflict, with tens of thousands detained since the 2021 coup, a United Nations (UN) report said today.

JAKARTA, Sept 17 — The Indonesian Parliament's key budget committee has approved the incoming government's budget today, said its chair Said Abdullah.

SAN JOSE, Sept 17 — Amazon's chief executive officer Andy Jassy has announced a full-time return to the office for Amazon employees, emphasising the benefits of working together in person, the German News Agency (dpa) reported.

BANGKOK, Sept 17 — The Thai government will nominate a ruling party loyalist and critic of the central bank governor for chair of the Bank of Thailand, seeking to assert influence on the institution amid a protracted rift over interest rates, according to two sources.

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 — Lawyers for TikTok and its parent company ByteDance will square off with the Justice Department in a Washington courtroom today over the fate of a law that could ban the short video app used by 170 million Americans as soon as January 19.