HAIKOU, Sept 6 — Super Typhoon Yagi, the 11th typhoon of this year, made landfall in south China's Hainan Province today afternoon, according to the province's emergency management headquarters.

BANGKOK, Sept 6 — Myanmar's military long viewed the insurgency among persecuted Rohingya Muslims as an existential threat to the majority Buddhist nation, but as the Arakan Army rebel group makes sweeping gains, the junta and some Rohingya fighters now face a common foe.

SEOUL, Sept 6 — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived for a whirlwind visit to South Korea today, seeking to seal a newfound partnership between the neighbours which will be tested by imminent changes of leaders in Tokyo and Washington.

WASHINGTON, Sept 6 — United States (US) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he will pick tech billionaire and Tesla owner Elon Musk to head a "government efficiency commission" to audit the entire administration if he is elected in November's presidential election, reported the German News Agency (dpa).

VIENNA, Sept 6 — Eight OPEC+ member countries have agreed to extend their voluntary oil production cuts by two months, pushing the deadline to the end of November in response to declining oil prices, reported Xinhua.

BRUSSELS, Sept 6 — The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Friday, as global warming continues to intensify.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 6 — Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, pleaded guilty to federal tax charges on Thursday, a surprise move that avoids a potentially embarrassing trial weeks before the US presidential election.

LONDON, Sept 5 — At least part of Airbus’s A350 fleet will be inspected as a precautionary measure, Europe’s aviation safety regulator said today, after an engine part failed during the flight of a Cathay Pacific A350-1000 passenger plane.

NAIROBI — Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei died today, several days after she was doused in petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend in Kenya, in the latest attack on female athletes in the country.

ANKARA, Sept 5 — Oil prices climbed today due to speculation that the OPEC+ group may delay planned production increases.

VLADIVOSTOK, Sept 5 — BRICS nations are set to discuss the outcomes of the Informal Consultative Framework on World Trade Organisation (WTO) issues at an upcoming summit in October, said Union of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Russia chairman Zhou Liqun.

HONG KONG, Sept 5 — China's southern provinces and cities braced for the arrival of Super Typhoon Yagi, shutting schools and postponing flights ahead of its expected landfall along Hainan's tropical coast, in what could be the most powerful storm to hit in nearly a decade.

BANGKOK, Sept 4 — Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has endorsed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra's new Cabinet, the Royal Gazette announced yesterday, with 12 new faces in the 36-member lineup.

WASHINGTON, Sept 4 — Former United States (US) president Donald Trump is continuing to plead not guilty following the publication of a revised indictment in the election fraud case against him, according to a court document filed by his lawyers yesterday, the German News Agency (dpa) reported.

MANILA, Sept 4 — A fugitive former mayor in the Philippines accused of links to Chinese criminal syndicates has been arrested in Indonesia, Manila's Justice Ministry said in a statement today.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 3 — A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has upheld the ban of Elon Musk's social media platform X amid the judiciary's long-running dispute with the billionaire.

CARACAS, Sept 3 — Venezuela's attorney-general's office said on Monday a court has issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, accusing him of conspiracy and other crimes amid a dispute over whether he or President Nicolas Maduro won a July election.

HONG KONG, Sept 2 — Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways said today it had started a fleet-wide inspection of its Airbus A350 aircraft as a precautionary measure after it identified an engine component failure in one of its flights.

BEIJING, Sept 2 — China urged the European Union to be “objective and fair”, and careful with words and actions on issues in the South China Sea, after the bloc remarked on an incident that occurred over the weekend.

TOKYO, Sept 1 — Tropical cyclone Shanshan, downgraded from a typhoon, left seven people dead and widespread damage as it churned off the Pacific coast of central Japan today.