SINGAPORE, June 29 — Singapore boosted the share of renewables in its power generation mix to a record high in May, an analysis of the latest market data showed, as the country ramped up renewable imports and accelerated local solar power generation.

WASHINGTON, June 28 — The Republican-led US Senate rejected a Democratic-led bid on Friday to block President Donald Trump from using further military force against Iran, hours after the president said he would consider more bombing.

WASHINGTON, June 28 — US President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed media reports that said his administration had discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as US$30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear programme.

TEHRAN/WASHINGTON, June 28 — Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday that no arrangement or commitment had been made to resume negotiations with the United States, Xinhua reported.

WASHINGTON, June 28 — President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will send out a letter over the next week and a half informing countries of the United States (US) tariff rates they will be required to pay, Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported.

LONDON, June 27 — Global carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector hit a record high for the fourth year running last year as fossil fuel use kept rising even as renewable energy reached a record high, the Energy Institute’s annual statistical review of world energy showed yesterday.

DUBAI, June 27 — Iran will respond to any future American attack by striking the United States’ military bases in the Middle East, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday, in his first televised remarks since a ceasefire was reached between Iran and Israel.

WASHINGTON, June 26 — United States (US) Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said he was unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved any of its highly enriched uranium to shield it from US strikes on Iran's nuclear program over the weekend.

BANGKOK, June 26 — Lured to Cambodia, tortured, and forced to defraud strangers online, a Thai teenager said he barely survived after he threw himself from an eighth-floor window last year in a desperate bid to escape one of the Southeast Asian nation’s prison-like scam compounds.

JAKARTA, June 26 — Indonesia's Attorney-General's Office (AGO) has signed an agreement with four telecommunication operators to install wiretapping devices, an official from the Office said, raising questions among analysts about the potential impact on privacy and surveillance.

SYDNEY, June 26 — Australia is suing a Chinese-linked company and a former associate over a breach of foreign investment laws linked with rare earths miner Northern Minerals, the national treasurer said on Thursday, adding it was the first case of its kind.

BANGKOK, June 26 — Three years after the widespread legalisation of cannabis in Thailand, the government plans to tighten the rules again and reclassify it as a narcotic, the German Press Agency (dpa) reported.

ARANYAPRATHET, June 26 — Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Cambodia’s influential former leader Hun Sen are visiting different parts of their disputed land border today as tensions simmer between the two neighbours over a territorial dispute and the Thai government teeters on the brink of collapse.

BRUSSELS, June 26 — European Union leaders are to tell the European Commission today that a quick trade deal with the United States will come at the cost of Washington getting better terms, or they can escalate the fight in hope of something better.

WASHINGTON, June 26 — United States President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, was pulled into political contention over US vaccine policy yesterday, describing the medications as “life-saving” and telling a Senate panel she has not seen evidence linking vaccines and autism.

ISTANBUL/BAGHDAD, June 26 — Iran authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region, officials and activists said.

BRUSSELS, June 26 — Businesses will find it easier to get state aid for projects aimed at cutting their carbon emissions and to switch to green projects while heavy industries will benefit from temporary power price relief under looser rules announced by the European Commission yesterday.

NEW YORK, June 26 — Microsoft has been hit with a suit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model.

SINGAPORE, June 25 — A 46-year-old Malaysian woman was arrested on Monday (June 23) for allegedly attempting to smuggle over two kg of drugs, including cannabis and ‘Ice’, worth more than SG$142,000 (RM469,889), into Singapore.

TEHRAN, June 25 — Iran’s Parliament has approved a motion to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), following a near-unanimous vote during an open session on Tuesday.