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WASHINGTON, April 24 — The US Senate voted late Tuesday to send legislation to President Joe Biden that would require Chinese owner ByteDance to divest the popular short video app's US assets within about nine months or face a ban.

CAPE TOWN, April 24 — Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, is on track to surpass Johannesburg and emerge as Africa's wealthiest city by 2030, according to the 2024 Africa Wealth Report.

SYDNEY, April 23 — Elon Musk lashed out at Australia's Prime Minister today after a court ordered his social media company X (formerly Twitter) to take down footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney, saying the ruling meant any country could control "the entire Internet".

SAO PAULO, April 23 — Brazil's government has said four additional poultry plants have been cleared to sell halal products to Malaysia, a move it hopes will double exports to the Asian country compared to last year's levels.

UNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT, April 23 — Israel has yet to provide evidence for its accusations that hundreds of staff with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) are members of terrorist groups, according to a review of the agency's neutrality released on Monday that could prompt some donor countries to review funding freezes.

TAIPEI, April 23 — More than 80 earthquakes, the strongest at 6.3 magnitude, struck Taiwan's east coast starting Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday and some caused shaking of buildings in the capital Taipei, the island's weather administration said.

JAKARTA, April 22 — The Indonesian police foiled an attempt to traffic 24 migrant workers to neighbouring Malaysia in the western province of North Sumatra, said the provincial police.

HANOI, April 22 — The Asean Future Forum 2024 (AFF 2024), to take place in Hanoi, Vietnam tomorrow, is expected to create a platform for stakeholders to contribute ideas and initiatives on Asean's future vision, said Vietnamese Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Đỗ Hùng Việt.

QINGYUAN, April 22 — Rescuers on boats in China's flood-hit Guangdong province raced to evacuate trapped residents, carrying some elderly people by piggyback from their homes and deploying helicopters to save villagers caught in landslides.

COPENHAGEN, April 22 — Global military spending reached a new high in 2023 for the ninth time in a row as figures exceeded the previous year's spending, a leading think tank on conflict and defence said on Monday, reported dpa news.

GAZA, April 22 — The death toll from the Israeli warplanes and artillery targeting of two Palestinian civilian homes in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning rose to 19, including 14 children.

QINGDAO, April 22 — China remains committed to resolving maritime disputes with other countries through dialogue but will not allow itself to be "abused," a senior military official said at a meeting of senior foreign naval officials in the port city of Qingdao on Monday.

BEIJING/FRANKFURT, April 22 — Tesla has cut prices in a number of its major markets, including China and Germany, following price cuts in the United States, as it grapples with falling sales and an intensifying price war for electric vehicles (EVs), especially against Chinese EVs.

MOSUL, April 22 — At least five rockets were launched from Iraq's town of Zummar towards a US military base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, two Iraqi security sources and a US official told Reuters.

BANGKOK, April 21 — Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has expressed concern over the latest round of armed clashes in Myanmar’s Myawaddy, which is located along the Thai-Myanmar border.

WASHINGTON, April 21 — The United States' (US) House of Representatives passed a US$95 billion (RM452.2 billion) legislative package yesterday amid broad bipartisan support, providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, over bitter objections from Republican hardliners.

NUR SHAMS, April 21 — Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank yesterday, while an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a separate attack by violent Jewish settlers, said the Palestinian authorities.

ISTANBUL, April 20 — Tension between Israel and Iran should not distract from the situation in Gaza, and the first priority of the international community should be ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said.

ISTANBUL, April 20 — The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has confirmed that the three vessels involved in the “Break the Siege: Freedom Flotilla Mission to Gaza 2024” are expected to sail on Wednesday (April 24).