KHARTOUM/CAIRO, April 19 — Residents in an affluent district of Khartoum feared there would be trouble when they found their new neighbour was a commander from a paramilitary force that protesters blamed for cracking down on them in the past.

JAKARTA, April 18 — Indonesia has reported five new cases of the new Covid-19 Arcturus subvariant, bringing the total number of cases to seven as of yesterday.

NEW YORK, April 18 — At least 185 people have been killed and 1,800 injured in fighting in Sudan, the German United Nations mediator Volker Perthes said via video conference in New York.

KHARTOUM, April 17 — Clashes in Sudan's capital Khartoum raged for a third day, raising the death toll to 97, said a Sudanese doctors' union in a statement early Monday, reported Xinhua.

NAYPYIDAW, April 17 — Myanmar's junta released 3,113 prisoners, including 98 foreigners, to mark the country's traditional New Year on Monday (April 16), according to a statement from the military government published on pro-military Telegram channels.

JAKARTA, April 17 — Volkswagen will build an electric vehicle (EV) battery ecosystem in Indonesia and will partner with miner Vale, Ford and China's battery minerals producer Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, the Southeast Asian country's investment minister said.

KHARTOUM, April 17 — Sudan's army appeared to gain the upper hand on Sunday in a bloody power struggle with rival paramilitary forces, pounding their bases with air strikes, witnesses said, and at least 59 civilians were killed including three UN workers.

ACCRA, April 16 — Ghana has confirmed Anopheles stephensi as a new malaria-transmitting mosquito vector for the first time, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced Saturday.

ANKARA, April 15 — France's controversial pension reform plan was signed and officially promulgated in the Official Journal on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reported.

PARIS, April 15 — French President Emmanuel Macron's flagship pension reform will enter into force swiftly, officials said on Friday (April 14) after it received the Constitutional Council's approval despite months of street protests and strikes.

BUENOS AIRES, April 15 — Argentina's annual inflation rate soared to 104.3 per cent in March, the official statistics agency said on Friday (April 14), one of the highest rates in the world, straining people's wallets and stoking a cost-of-living crisis that has pushed up poverty.

NEW YORK, Apr 15 — Lawmakers in the US state of Montana voted Friday to ban the social media app, TikTok.

SINGAPORE, April 14 — The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will maintain the prevailing rate of appreciation of the Singapore dollar nominal effective exchange rate (S$NEER) policy band.

LONDON, April 14 — Most British people are not interested in the coronation of King Charles III, though many said they would still watch it or take part in related festivities, reported the German Press Agency (dpa), based on a YouGov poll data.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 14 — The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated many existing challenges faced by organisations and exposed them to new sources of risk.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 14 — When palm oil prices soared to record highs last year, a Malaysian estate manager surnamed Lim postponed replanting his old, unproductive trees for a third consecutive year to lock in profits — a decision he regrets and is scrambling to fix.

ISTANBUL, April 14 — International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Thursday the global economy has proven resilient to shocks in the past three years, but it is yet to overcome weak growth and inflation.

SINGAPORE, April 14 — Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) estimated that the republic’s economy grew by 0.1 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2023 (1Q 2023), slower than the 2.1 per cent growth recorded in 4Q 2022.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 13 — Twitter has laid off more than 6,000 employees, around 80 per cent of its workforce since late last year, its chief executive officer Elon Musk said in an interview with the BBC on Tuesday (April 11) evening.

MECCA, April 12 — More than 19 million pilgrims conducted Umrah in the Grand Mosque during the 20 days of Ramadan, and the Saudi Arabia government has been providing high-quality services through the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques.