WASHINGTON, March 19 — The secretary general of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Monday against Israeli plans to carry out a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Anadolu Agency reported.

TELUK, March 19 — Solikah, an Indonesian housewife living in the fishing village here, was in tears as she pointed to piles of trash strewn on a beach close to her home of 40 years.

SYDNEY, March 19 — Australian business leaders are set to meet China's foreign minister in Canberra, saying their country lacks knowledge of its biggest trading partner and that they will seek insight on how Beijing views Washington, which is "critical" to trade flow.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM/LONDON, March 19 — Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said on Monday.

GAZA CITY, March 18 — At least 81 Palestinians were killed and 116 others injured in the last 24 hours as Israel continues its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip since October 7, the territory's Health Ministry said on Monday, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

GAZA, March 18 — Gaza's northern city of Jabalia received its first aid delivery in approximately four months.

DHAKA, March 18 — Bangladesh's first sea-land integrated oil storage and transportation system has been put into commercial operation.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, March 18 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would keep on with the military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, where aid agencies say famine is looming, while ceasefire talks were set to resume.

MOSCOW, March 18 — Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Monday that a direct conflict between Russia and the US-led Nato military alliance would mean the planet is one step away from World War Three but said hardly anyone wanted such a scenario.

SYDNEY, March 18 — Asian shares idled and the dollar held firm on Monday as investors looked to navigate a minefield of central bank meetings this week that could see the end of free money in Japan and perhaps a slower glide path for US rate cuts.

MOSCOW, March 18 — President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election on Sunday, cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory he said showed Moscow had been right to stand up to the West and send its troops into Ukraine.

TOKYO, March 18 — Despite opposition and concern from at home and abroad, Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has finished its initial year of discharging nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean, according to the plant's operator, said Xinhua.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — The Gaza Strip is catastrophic and words cannot describe it, according to a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) nurse working in Northern Gaza.

TEHRAN, March 17 — A senior Hamas official has underscored that the Palestinian resistance movement’s proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is pragmatic and applicable, Iranian News Agency (IRNA) reported.

SINGAPORE, March 17 — The people went to the streets today as some roads along Singapore’s Civic District and Central Business District (CBD) were closed to the traffic for the Car-Free Sunday which returns after a four-year hiatus.

MOSCOW, March 15 — TikTok's revenues in the United States (US) spiralled up to a record US$16 billion (RM75.2 billion) last year as the social media giant braces for the possibility of being banned in US territory this year.

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 15 — Brunei has allocated over US$1 million to deliver 5,920 ready-to-eat meal packages to Gaza via airdrops, reported Xinhua quoting an offficial media Pelita Brunei report.

SINGAPORE, March 15 — Singapore will conduct humanitarian airdrop operations to deliver aid supplies to Gaza.

SYDNEY, March 15 — Australia will resume funding to the United Nations' main Palestinian relief agency, said its Foreign Minister Penny Wong today.

TOKYO, March 15 — Japanese car makers Honda and Nissan have decided to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on a comprehensive cooperation in their electric vehicle businesses, public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday.