WASHINGTON, May 3 — The United States (US) military has created a second military zone along the border with Mexico, adding an area in Texas where troops can temporarily detain migrants or trespassers after another such area was designated in New Mexico last month.

SYDNEY, May 3 — Voting began on Saturday in Australia's national election that polls show will likely favour Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over conservative challenger Peter Dutton, with voter appetite for change dampened by worries over Donald Trump's volatile diplomacy.

SINGAPORE, May 3 — Polling stations across Singapore opened at 8am today as more than 2.75 million eligible voters began casting their votes in the country’s general election.

LONDON, May 2 — Global food commodity prices increased in April, driven by higher cereal, meat and dairy product prices that outweighed falls in sugar and vegetable oils, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said today.

HONG KONG/SHENZHEN, May 2 — Doris Au, a seller of door locks and hardware in Hong Kong for 25 years, received a letter from her bank, DBS Group, last June stating that her business account would be closed.

CHICAGO, May 2 — McDonald's Corporation announced yesterday that its US same-store sales dropped 3.6 per cent in the first quarter of this year, the worst drop since the 8.7-per cent plunge in the second quarter of 2020, Xinhua reported.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 — Amazon.com Inc yesterday announced its financial results for this year's first quarter ending on March 31, with net sales of US$155.7 billion (RM669 billion), up by 9 per cent year on year, Xinhua reported.

GDANSK, Poland, May 2 — Chinese carmakers including BYD and Chery are selling more plugin-hybrids in the European Union to avoid import tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars, data released today showed.

GENEVA, May 2 — The minds and bodies of children in Gaza are being broken following two months of aid blockade and renewed strikes, the executive director of the World Health Organisation emergencies programme said yesterday.

SINGAPORE, May 2 — In a final push before the cooling-off period, Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong yesterday addressed rallies in the hotly contested Sengkang and Punggol group representation constituencies (GRCs) ahead of this year’s general election (GE2025).

LONDON, May 1 — Apple must pay a United States patent holder US$502 million (RM2.16 billion) for the use of 4G patents in devices including iPhones and iPads, London's Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, in the latest stage of a long-running legal battle.

BANGKOK, May 1 — Thailand's state prosecutor has said today that it will not prosecute an American academic who was arrested and charged last month with insulting the royal family, a crime that carries a penalty of up to 15 years in jail, and asked a court to free him.

JAKARTA, May 1 — Indonesia's Parliament is set to agree next week to ratify an agreement made with Vietnam that sets the boundaries of their exclusive economic zones in the contested South China Sea, a lawmaker said today.

SINGAPORE, May 1 — When 68-year-old Richard Han heads to the ballot box on Saturday (May 3) to vote in Singapore's election, cost-of-living pressures will be on the retiree's mind as he worries about his daily expenses and his son's prospects after university.

WASHINGTON, May 1— United States (US) Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Iran on Wednesday that it will face consequences for supporting the Houthis, even as the US has relaunched talks with Iran over its nuclear programme.

TOKYO, May 1 — Japan, China, South Korea and Asean countries are expected to expand their emergency currency swap programme to include infectious disease outbreaks and natural disasters as early as this month.

NEW DELHI, May 1 — India shut its airspace to Pakistani airlines yesterday, the government said, days after its nuclear-armed neighbour banned Indian airlines from flying over its territory following the killing of 26 men in an attack on tourists in Kashmir.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 — Global air passenger demand rose by 3.3 per cent in March 2025, compared to the 2.7 per cent growth reported for February, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

ROME, April 30 — The next leader of the global Roman Catholic Church needs to put the issue of clerical sex abuse at the heart of their papacy, victims' advocates said on Wednesday, criticising the legacies of the last three popes.

MANILA, April 30 — The Philippines and New Zealand strengthened defence ties with the signing of a landmark troop pact today, opening the way for expanded military cooperation amid shared security concerns in the Indo-Pacific region.