WASHINGTON, April 3 — Yahoo has acquired artificial intelligence-driven news aggregator app Artifact, the company announced on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — The World Bank and United Nations (UN), with support from the European Union, released a report on Tuesday estimating the damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza at approximately US$18.5 billion.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 shocked Taiwan on Wednesday, triggering several countries to issue tsunami warnings and advise people to stay away from coastal areas.

TAIPEI, April 3 — A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years, killing one person, injuring dozens and sparking a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted.

Washington, April 3 — US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was "outraged and heartbroken" by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza that killed seven people working for World Central Kitchen (WCK) and he called on Israel to do more to protect aid workers.

WASHINGTON, April 3 — US President Joe Biden sought to manage tensions over the South China Sea and Taiwan's May presidential inauguration in a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, their first direct talks since meeting in November.

TOKYO, April 3 — Japan issued an evacuation advisory for the coastal areas near the southern prefecture of Okinawa after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami warning early this morning.

JAKARTA, April 2 — Asean secretary-general Kao Kim Hourn has encouraged Timor-Leste to swiftly meet the requirements outlined in the roadmap for its full membership in Asean.

GENEVA, April 2 — Israel's destruction of Gaza's biggest hospital in a raid over the past two weeks has ripped the heart out of the enclave's healthcare system, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) today.

SINGAPORE, April 2 —Joseph Schooling, the swimmer who won Singapore's first and to date, only Olympic gold medal in 2016, announced on Tuesday that he had retired from the pool at the age of 28.

NEW YORK, April 2 — Google agreed to destroy billions of data records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately.

GAZA, April 2 — At least five employees from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) non-governmental organisation, including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said late on Monday.

BANGKOK, April 1 — The office of the Thai Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) received two Thais suspected of drug trafficking, extradited from Malaysia today.

BERLIN, April 1 — The partial legalisation of cannabis for personal use, which was championed by the centre-left government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, takes effect in Germany today.

SINGAPORE, April 1 — Singapore's competition watchdog looked into the likelihood of the now-collapsed talks between Grab Holdings and Delivery Hero, raising worries about competition in the food delivery market, the regulator said today.

HANOI, April 1 — Vietnam is seeking to learn from China to develop its first high-speed railway network, according to its government, with plans in the works for a rail line running the country's length.

MANILA, April 1 — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has ordered his government to strengthen its coordination on maritime security to confront "a range of serious challenges" to territorial integrity and peace as a dispute with China escalates.

SINGAPORE, April 1 — The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched Cosmic, the first centralised digital platform to facilitate sharing of customer information among financial institutions (FIs) to combat money laundering, terrorism financing and proliferation financing globally.

ISTANBUL, April 1 —Turks dealt President Tayyip Erdogan and his party their biggest electoral blow on Sunday in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president's chief rival.

JERUSALEM, April 1 — Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday against Benjamin Netanyahu's government and against exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from military service, in scenes reminiscent of last year's mass street protests.