KUALA LUMPUR, April 5 — Amid mounting international pressure, Israel has announced the opening of crossings for humanitarian aid into Gaza, hours after a stern warning from United States (US) President Joe Biden.

JAKARTA, April 5 — Four Indonesian Cabinet ministers appeared in the Constitutional Court today to testify in the trial of the Dispute over the Results of the 2024 Presidential and Vice Presidential Election (PHPU).

WASHINGTON, April 5 — Israel has agreed to open additional routes for the delivery of badly-needed humanitarian aid to Gaza, said the White House yesterday.

CANBERRA, April 5 — World-first research has estimated up to 11 million tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.

WASHINGTON, April 5 — US President Joe Biden effectively gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum on Thursday: protect Palestinian civilians and foreign aid workers in Gaza or Washington could rein in support for Israel in its war against Hamas militants.

PARIS, April 5 — The Philippines has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, at a poultry farm in the centre of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Thursday.

NEW DELHI, April 5 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, confident of winning a national election starting this month, has set an ambitious target of roughly doubling the economy and exports this decade, according to a government document seen by Reuters.

HUALIEN, April 5 — A helicopter plucked to safety on Thursday six people stranded in a mining area after Taiwan's worst earthquake in 25 years, and rescue workers reached 400 people cut off in a hotel in a mountainous national park by air, and confirmed all were safe.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 — The total global passenger demand for air travel in February 2024, measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), rose 21.5 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y), said the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

GAZA CITY, April 4 — At least 33,037 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since last October, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said on Thursday, the Anadolu Agency reported.

TAIPEI, April 4 — A total of 41 people inside Taroko National Park were unaccounted for for more than 29 hours, since a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck eastern Taiwan on Wednesday morning.

SAO PAULO, April 4 — Tropical forest loss declined last year, but other indicators show that the world's woodlands remain under tremendous pressure, according to an analysis released on Thursday by the Global Forest Watch monitoring project.

JAKARTA, April 4 — Mount Merapi, straddling the border of Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces, experienced six lava eruptions on Thursday, with the lava reaching distances of up to 1.5 kilometres.

BRUSSELS/BERLIN, April 4 — The vast majority of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions since 2016 can be traced to a group of 57 fossil fuel and cement producers, researchers said on Thursday.

TOKYO, April 4 — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted northeastern Japan around Thursday noon, the country’s weather agency said, with no tsunami warning issued.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 4 — The global air cargo industry registered a total of 19.7 billion cargo tonne-kilometres (CTKs) in February 2024, representing an increase of 11.9 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y), according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

CAIRO, April 4 — Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said on Wednesday that his Palestinian Islamist movement at war with Israel was sticking to its conditions for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, including an Israeli military withdrawal.

HUALIEN, Taiwan, April 4 — The number of people injured in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in eastern Taiwan climbed past 1,000 on Thursday though the death toll remained steady at nine, with 42 workers on their way to a hotel in a national park still missing.

BEIJING, April 3 — Rare storms with typhoon-like winds have killed at least seven people in China's southern Jiangxi province since the weekend, three of them blown out of their high-rise apartments in their sleep.

TAIPEI, April 3 — World leaders and officials from several governments have expressed solidarity and offered assistance to Taiwan after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the country's eastern coast on Wednesday morning.