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JAKARTA, Jan 2 — The Malaysian Foreign Minister appreciated the commitment of the Indonesian media to provide accurate and objective reports on the events of the two countries.

MANILA, Jan 2 — The Philippines' main gateway remained on reduced operations on Monday after a New Year power outage that jolted its air traffic control, with authorities scrambling to resume full service after more than 300 flights were disrupted.

WASHINGTON, Jan 2 — Managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva warns that Europe faces a "tough winter" and likely more serious problems during the next cold season amid the bloc's plan to end dependence on Russian energy, reported Sputnik.

ANKARA, Jan 1 — Morocco will impose an entry ban on travellers from China beginning Jan 3 due to rising Covid-19 cases, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

SINGAPORE, Dec 31 — 'We must brace ourselves for the uncertainties ahead,' the republic’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told fellow Singaporeans in his New Year Message 2023 today.

VATICAN CITY, Dec 31 — Former Pope Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to step down, died on Saturday aged 95 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican where he had lived since his resignation, a spokesman for the Holy See said.

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 — Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on U.S.

NEW YORK, Dec 31 — The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution Friday that asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, Anadolu Agency reported.

NEW YORK, Dec 31 — A United States House committee released on Friday former President Donald Trump's tax returns covering six years from 2015 - 2020.

NEW YORK, Dec 31 — The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a US$3.39 billion (RM14.9 billion) budget for the United Nations for 2023, Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly Abdulla Shahid, told Sputnik.

LONDON, Dec 31 — More countries introduced Covid-19 restrictions on travellers from China with the United Kingdom on Friday imposing pre-departure Covid-19 tests.

ANKARA, Dec 31 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) and China held a high-level meeting Friday to discuss the current surge in Covid-19 cases.

SINGAPORE, Dec 30 — Singapore is closely monitoring the global Covid-19 situation and stands ready to reinstate border health measures for selected countries if warranted by the public health situation, said the republic’s Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday.

NEW DELHI, Dec 30 — All manufacturing activities have been halted at a facility of Indian drugmaker Marion Biotech, which has been linked to child deaths due to cough syrup consumption in Uzbekistan.

ISTANBUL, Dec 30 — A junta court on Friday sentenced Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to seven more years, bringing her total jail term in all cases to 33 years.

BEIJING, Dec 30 — Chinese state media said Covid-19 testing requirements imposed by several places around the world in response to a surging wave of infections were 'discriminatory', in the clearest pushback yet against restrictions that are slowing down its re-opening.

JAKARTA, Dec 30 — Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has signed an emergency regulation to replace a controversial job creation law, his ministers said on Friday, legislation that a court had ruled was flawed.

POIPET, Dec 30 — Cambodian rescue teams recovered eight bodies on Friday from the charred rooms of a casino hotel where a fire killed at least 27 people a day earlier, with more than 20 people still missing.

MANILA, Dec 30 — The death toll from flooding and landslides caused by Christmas Day rains in the southern Philippines rose to 44, with 28 others still unaccounted for, the national disaster agency said on Friday.