NEW YORK, June 6 — Vietnam’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, met with the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar during her working visit to New York on June 5.

LONDON, June 6 — Global investment in clean energy technology and infrastructure is set to hit US$2 trillion (RM9.36 trillion) this year, twice the amount going into fossil fuels, an International Energy Agency (IEA) report showed.

BRUSSELS, June 6 — Meta Platforms was hit with 11 complaints today over proposed changes that would see it use personal data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models without consent, which may breach European Union privacy rules.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, June 6 — The leader of Hamas said yesterday the group would demand a permanent end to the war in Gaza and Israeli withdrawal as part of a ceasefire plan, dealing an apparent blow to a truce proposal touted last week by United States President Joe Biden.

BEIJING, June 6 — Ukraine’s first deputy foreign minister visited China yesterday and urged it to send a delegation to a planned summit on Ukraine this month in Switzerland, in the apparent hope it was still possible to persuade China to attend.

WASHINGTON, June 6 — United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres said yesterday countries must confront not just the fossil fuel industry, but also companies that support efforts to obstruct climate action.

VIENNA, June 6 — The United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors passed a resolution yesterday calling on Iran to step up cooperation with it and reverse its recent barring of inspectors despite concerns Tehran would respond with atomic escalation.

JERUSALEM, June 6 — Israel is phasing out the use of a military-run detention camp for Palestinians captured during the Gaza conflict, where rights groups say there has been abuse of inmates, justice officials said yesterday.

LONDON, June 6 — Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said yesterday there would be no rush to introduce detailed rules to regulate the rapidly developing use of artificial intelligence in financial services.

BEIJING, June 5 — China announced plans today to better measure the carbon content of its products — a key step in reaching its own climate goals and meeting tougher carbon standards overseas.

JAKARTA, June 5 — Indonesian President Joko Widodo said today he plans to start working from the new capital next month amid concerns over the future of the project, following resignations of senior executives overseeing the development.

SANTIAGO, June 5 — With a resolution above 3.2 gigapixels, a nearly three-tonne weight and the ambitious task of carrying out an unprecedented decade-long exploration, the largest digital camera ever built for optical astronomy is ready to be installed under the clear skies of northern Chile.

NEW DELHI, June 5 — Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, mocked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his supporters for a decade as an entitled dynast, marked a stunning comeback yesterday, emerging at the centre of an alliance that made deep inroads into ruling party strongholds.

SYDNEY, June 5 — Australia’s cyber safety regulator today dropped a legal challenge against X over the removal of videos showing an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney being stabbed, after a setback last month in the federal court.

NEW YORK, June 5 — A former Meta engineer yesterday accused the company of bias in its handling of content related to the Gaza conflict, claiming in a suit Meta fired him for trying to fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian Instagram posts.

WASHINGTON, June 5 — US President Joe Biden on Tuesday instituted a broad asylum ban on migrants caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, a major enforcement move in the run-up to November elections that will decide control of the White House.

WASHINGTON, June 5 — The Republican-led US House of Representatives passed legislation that would impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court over its prosecutor's decision to seek arrest warrants for Israeli officials related to the war in Gaza.

NEW DELHI, June 5 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a historic third term on Tuesday, but with a vastly diminished majority in a rare electoral setback for a leader who has held a tight grip on the nation's politics.

BANGKOK, June 4 — Thailand has unveiled new measures aimed at bolstering competitiveness and attracting high-skilled foreign workers as part of its transition to a new economy.

PUTRAJAYA, June 4 — The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has expressed “significant frustration” over the current situation in Gaza, which he described as “beyond catastrophic”.