WASHINGTON, Jan 23 — United States (US) and British forces have carried out a fresh round of strikes on Monday (January 22) in Yemen, targeting a Houthi underground storage site as well as missile and surveillance capabilities used by the Iran-aligned group against Red Sea shipping, said the Pentagon.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 — Two Malaysians who confessed to conspiring with an affiliate of Al-Qaeda in the deadly bombing in Bali, Indonesia, two decades ago could be returned to Malaysia before the end of the year under the plea deal agreed last week.

NEW YORK, Jan 22 — The United Nations Security Council will hold its monthly open debate on "The Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question" on Tuesday at a ministerial level.

ISTANBUL, Jan 22 — Saudi Arabia will not normalise relations with Israel unless the Palestinian issue is resolved, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud told US news outlet CNN in an interview broadcast on Sunday, as quoted by Anadolu Agency.

TEHRAN, 21 Jan — The Israeli regime has reportedly used phosphorus bombs in its latest attacks on the northern Gaza Strip.

CAIRO, Jan 21 — Syria urges the international community to stop Israeli attacks on civilians, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement following an Israeli airstrike on Damascus which killed at least five people, reported Sputnik.

GAZA, Jan 20 — Dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and others wounded in a barrage of Israeli aerial and artillery shelling of multiple areas as the Israeli war of aggression on Gaza enters its 106 days.

MANILA, Jan 20 — The Philippines and Canada signed a memorandum of understanding on defence cooperation yesterday, a move which Manila's defence minister said could later lead to a troop pact between the two countries.

DAVOS, Jan 20 — Many developing countries are facing major debt crises due to inflationary pressures and rising interest rates, said the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) administrator Achim Steiner.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — The Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (Amro) has maintained its 2024 growth forecast of 4.5 per cent for the Asean+3 region as improving external sector lends further support to resilient domestic demand.

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ISTANBUL, Jan 17 — Qatar announced Tuesday that it has successfully mediated an agreement between Israel and Hamas that will enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to civilians in Gaza in exchange for the delivery of medicines to Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian group.

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DAVOS (Switzerland), Jan 16 —- Climate change threatens to cause several million deaths in the coming decades as well as serious illnesses and high costs for healthcare systems, according to a report published on Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland, reported German news agency (dpa).

TOKYO Jan 16 — Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) plans to start a fourth release of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in late February, an official said on Tuesday, continuing a move criticised by China.

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WASHINGTON, Jan 15 — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said on Sunday that artificial intelligence (AI) will affect almost 40 per cent of jobs around the world, calling for a careful balance of policies to tap its potential, reported Xinhua.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 — The outlook for South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific remains positive and broadly unchanged compared to the last survey, with a strong majority of chief economists surveyed (93 per cent and 86 per cent, respectively) expecting at least moderate growth in 2024, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Chief Economists Outlook report.