JAKARTA, May 12 — At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured when their tour bus overturned on a hilly road in Subang, West Java, yesterday night.

SYDNEY, May 11 — Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has said the country's support for a Palestinian bid to become a full United Nations (UN) member was part of building momentum to secure peace in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

LONDON, May 11 — Talks to draw up a global pact to help fight future pandemics have ended without a draft agreement by the expected deadline, but progress has been made, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, May 11 — The Biden administration yesterday said Israel’s use of United States-supplied weapons may have violated international humanitarian law (IHL) during its military operation in Gaza, in its strongest criticism to date of Israel.

SINGAPORE, May 10 — Outgoing Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the republic's relations with neighbouring Malaysia have been "generally good" during his time, but there are still some issues for his successor to address and work on.

MANILA, May 10 — The Philippines' national security adviser has called for Chinese diplomats to be expelled over an alleged leak of a phone conversation with a Filipino admiral in a significant escalation of a bitter row over the South China Sea.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 — The United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, raised concerns about the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid an Israeli blockade, leaving civilians with “no aid” for days.

MANILA, May 10 — Numerous countries including the United States and China have expressed interest in collaborating with the Philippines for mining opportunities particularly in nickel, its environment minister said on Friday.

BENGALURU, May 10 — Apple apologised on Thursday after an advertisement for its latest iPad Pro model sparked criticism by showing an animation of musical instruments and other symbols of creativity being crushed, Ad Age magazine reported.

DEIR AL-BALAH, May 10 — Souad Zohair, 73, has been kept alive by kidney dialysis three days a week at a hospital in Rafah, but that's shut now by Israel's latest offensive.

KING ABDULLAH AIR BASE, JORDAN, May 10 — Air drops through Jordan by a coalition of Western and Arab states are a lifesaver for starving Palestinians in Gaza struggling to get aid due to closed crossings and insufficient access, the commander of British forces in Cyprus said on Thursday.

NAYPYIDAW, May 9 — Myanmar’s military chief discussed plans to hold an election in the country with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen in talks this week, a senior official said, even as the ruling junta faces unprecedented pressure from an expanding armed resistance.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 — TikTok said today it would start using a technology aimed at helping it label images and video generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and uploaded to the video sharing service.

WASHINGTON/CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza Strip, May 9 — US President Joe Biden vowed publicly for the first time to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces make a major invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza while negotiations in Cairo on a ceasefire plan for the enclave were set to continue on Thursday.

SINGAPORE, May 8 — Shell has agreed to sell its refinery and petrochemical assets in Singapore to a joint venture between Indonesia's Chandra Asri Capital and Glencore Asian Holdings.

WASHINGTON, May 8 — United States (US) President Joe Biden's bid to draw Vietnam closer as a strategic ally will clash head-on with his desire for union workers' votes on Wednesday as the Commerce Department hears testimony on whether to designate Vietnam as a "market economy".

BRUSSELS, May 8 — The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature record, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday.

SYDNEY, May 8 — Australia said on Wednesday it would raise the amount of savings international students will need to get a visa and warned several colleges of fraudulent student recruitment practices, as part of efforts to rein in record migration.

RAFAH, May 8 —  Fearful medics and patients are fleeing a hospital in Rafah and transfers of the sick and injured via a border crossing with Egypt are at a standstill due to Israel's military operation, doctors and residents said on Tuesday.

BENGALURU, May 8 — AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it has initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its Covid-19 vaccine due to a "surplus of available updated vaccines" since the pandemic.