NEW YORK, Aug 2 — More than half of Sudan’s population now face acute hunger, a United Nations spokesman said yesterday.

NAQUERA, Aug 2 — A Spanish laboratory is breeding and sterilising thousands of aedes mosquitoes to fight dengue and other diseases as climate change encourages the invasive species to spread across Europe.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Aug 2 — The head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last month, the Israel military said yesterday, a day after the group’s political leader was assassinated in Tehran.

BEIJING, Aug 1 — Thirty people were killed and 35 are still missing in rains and storms in the wake of Typhoon Gaemi which swept into southern China last week, the state broadcaster CCTV said today.

SINGAPORE, Aug 1 — The top six economies in Southeast Asia — Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore — are projected to grow at an annual average rate of 5.1 per cent over the next 10 years, according to a report issued today.

NEW DELHI, Aug 1 — The death toll of Tuesday's (July 30) massive landslides in India's southern state of Kerala rose to 256, confirmed the state's Health Minister Veena George today while speaking to the local press.

TEHRAN, Aug 1 — A funeral ceremony is underway in the Iranian capital for Ismail Haniyeh, the Political Bureau Chief of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, who was assassinated by the Zionist regime in Tehran, reported the Iranian News Agency (IRNA).

SEOUL, Aug 1 — Netflix's global sensation Squid Game will return for a second season on December 26, Netflix said Thursday, adding that a third season is already in development, with plans for a release next year, Yonhap news agency reported.

TOKYO, Aug 1 — A slump in China’s manufacturing activity led to a generally weak performance for Asia's factories last month as business owners grappled with tepid demand, private surveys showed on Thursday, raising risks of an underpowered economic recovery in the region.

JAKARTA, Aug 1 — Indonesia's President-elect Prabowo Subianto said his upcoming administration would maintain ties with "great friend" Russia after meeting President Vladimir Putin, adding that he hoped for stronger cooperation on defence, energy and education.

WASHINGTON,  Aug 1 — The man accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his accomplices, held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have agreed to plead guilty, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

DUBAI, Aug 1 — Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated early on Wednesday morning in Iran, the Palestinian militant group and Tehran said.

CAIRO, Aug 1 — Khaled Meshaal, tipped to be the new Hamas leader, became known around the world in 1997 after Israeli agents injected him with poison in a botched assassination attempt on a street outside his office in the Jordanian capital Amman.

HAMILTON (Canada), Aug 1 — Iran’s envoy to the United Nations (UN) affirmed Wednesday that his country will retaliate for the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran "when it deems necessary and appropriate,” Anadolu agency reported.

CHOORALMALA, July 31 — Hopes of finding survivors began to fade as hundreds of rescuers worked through slush and rocks and pulled out bodies from debris in the hills of India's Kerala state today, a day after 167 people were killed in monsoon landslides.

MOSCOW, July 31 — The United States (US) will seek a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip despite the death of Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken today, according to Sputnik.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 31 — Global commercial air passenger traffic for the aviation industry, measured in revenue passenger-kilometres, remained on its steady growth trend in June 2024, rising 9.1 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y).

ISTANBUL, July 31 — Washington was “not aware of or involved in” the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, said the United States' (US) Secretary of State Antony Blinken today.

DUBAI, July 31 — Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader who was killed in Iran, was the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group's international diplomacy as war raged back in Gaza, where three of his sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike.

CANBERRA, July 31 — Australian banks will be forced to compensate customers who lose money to scams under new laws flagged by the government, reported Xinhua.