SEOUL, June 2 — North Korea said today it would stop sending balloons filled with trash over the border to South Korea, but vowed to resume the practice if anti-North Korean leaflets are flown over again from the South.

NEW DELHI, June 2 — A record temperature registered this week for India’s capital New Delhi, of 52.9ºC, was too high by 3ºC, the Indian government said yesterday, blaming a weather sensor error.

RAMALLAH, June 2 — Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced yesterday his country will join South Africa in its suit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Palestine News and Information Agency (Wafa) reported.

NEW YORK, June 2 — Boeing executives are unlikely to be criminally charged over fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people as the statute of limitations has likely passed, United States Justice Department officials told victims’ family members in a meeting.

JERUSALEM, June 2 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday there would be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas’ military and governing capabilities were destroyed.

LONDON, June 2 — Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will be concluded by 2025 or earlier if possible, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, June 2 — United States President Joe Biden on Friday laid out what he called a three-phase Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza in return for the release of Israeli hostages, saying “it’s time for this war to end”, winning a positive initial reaction from Hamas.

JAKARTA, June 2 — A volcano in Indonesia’s eastern Halmahera island erupted yesterday, spewing a 5km-high ash cloud, the country’s volcanology agency (PVMBG) said, while its disaster agency (BNPB) warned of flash floods and cold lava flow.

JOHANNESBURG, June 1 — South Africa is set to end three decades of dominance by the party that freed it from apartheid on Saturday, as voters angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed the African National Congress's (ANC) share of the vote to 40 per cent.

GAZA CITY, June 1 — After Israel’s announcement on Wednesday that it had taken control of the Philadelphi Corridor along the Palestine-Egypt border, the army blockade of all borders of the Gaza Strip was reinforced, and all aid entry points were captured.

NEW YORK, June 1 — Donald Trump said on Friday he would appeal the guilty verdict that made him the first US president convicted of a crime, though he will have to wait until after his sentencing on July 11 before taking that step.

BANGKOK, June 1 — Thailand has announced new measures to facilitate tourism, which would allow Malaysian tourists to enter without a visa or obtain a visa on arrival, with a stay of up to 60 days.

SINGAPORE, May 31 — Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore have agreed to stage more complex military drills in the region this year involving drones, fifth-generation fighter planes, and surveillance aircraft.

SINGAPORE, May 31 — The Shangri-La Dialogue summit began today with the United States (US) and China's defence chiefs holding their first face-to-face meeting in two years and the Philippines' president set to give a speech expected to touch on the sensitive South China Sea claims.

GENEVA, May 31 — The number of dengue cases worldwide has been increasing over the past five years, with a particularly alarming situation in the Americas this year, according to a new report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday The German News Agency (dpa) quoted the agency...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 31 — Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech giants announced on Thursday they are establishing a new industry group, the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Promoter Group, to guide the development of components that link together AI accelerator chips in data centres, said Xinhua.

JERUSALEM, May 31 — Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians in a dawn airstrike on Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday and fighting raged in several other areas of the coastal enclave, Gaza medics said.

NEW YORK, May 31 — Donald Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.

SINGAPORE, May 30 — Thailand's new finance minister has caught investor attention with a more conciliatory approach to the central bank, opening a window for policy coordination to support battered markets.

SINGAPORE, May 29 — A 24-year-old sub-contractor worker who was being treated at the Ng Teng Fong General Hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) became the second fatality of a gas inhalation incident at the Choa Chu Kang Waterworks (CCKWW) last week.