SEOUL, April 26 — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a ceremony for the launch of a "new multipurpose destroyer," state media KCNA reported on Saturday.

OTTAWA, April 26 — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has urged Israel to allow the World Food Programme to work in Gaza, saying food must not be used as a 'political tool', hours after the United Nations (UN) agency ran out of stocks due to a sustained Israeli blockade on supplies.

VATICAN CITY, April 26 — Royalty, presidents, prime ministers, and a legion of the faithful will pay their last respects to Pope Francis on Saturday at a funeral Mass in St.

SRINAGAR, April 25 — Armed police and soldiers searched homes and forests for militants in Indian Kashmir on Friday, and India's army chief reviewed security there after the killing of 26 men at a tourist site — the worst attack on civilians in nearly two decades.

MANILA, April 25 — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has ordered an investigation into alleged foreign interference in next month's elections after a top security official's warning that Chinese state-sponsored groups may be attempting to influence the outcome of the vote.

VATICAN CITY, April 25 — The funeral of Pope Francis, who died this week at the age of 88, takes place on Saturday in St.

NEW YORK, April 25 — United States (US) prosecutors formally told a court on Thursday that they plan to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering a UnitedHealth Group executive in New York last year.

HAMILTON, April 25 — The United Nations (UN) urged India and Pakistan to exercise "maximum restraint" following a deadly attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 26 people, Anadolu Ajansi reported.

BANGKOK, April 25 — Five police officers lost their lives and one sustained serious injuries after their aircraft crashed this morning in the Hua Hin district of Prachuap Khiri Khan province.

PHNOM PENH, April 25 — The 24th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Climate Outlook Forum was convened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia yesterday, focusing on heatwaves and public health.

BEIJING, April 25 — China warned a G20 meeting that world economic growth was "insufficient" as tariff and trade wars exacerbated economic and financial instability and sapped growth momentum, its finance ministry and central bank said.

WASHINGTON/RIYADH, April 25 — The United States is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over US$100 billion (RM430 billion), six sources with direct knowledge of the issue told Reuters, saying the proposal was being lined up for announcement during US President Donald Trump's visit to the kingdom in May.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 25 — Bursa Malaysia opened higher today in tandem with positive Wall Street overnight performance, buoyed by encouraging corporate earnings, especially from Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc, which came in higher than forecast.

LONDON, April 25 — Britain could gain 400 billion pounds (RM2.2 trillion) from AI-driven growth if it trained its workforce, Google said, after a pilot scheme in the UK showed workers could save more than 120 hours a year by using AI in administrative tasks.

TOKYO, April 25 — Nissan Motor sees a record net loss of 700 billion yen to 750 billion yen (RM21 billion to RM22 billion) for the financial year that ended in March, it said yesterday, due to impairment charges as the struggling automaker restructures.

SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI, April 24 — India announced a raft of measures to downgrade its ties with Pakistan on Wednesday, a day after suspected militants killed 26 men at a tourist destination in Kashmir in the worst attack on civilians in the country in nearly two decades.

ANKARA, April 24 — India has suspended a decades-old water treaty with neighbouring Pakistan on Wednesday, a day after unknown gunmen attacked tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir.

LONDON, April 24 — SIM farm devices capable of holding multiple SIM cards enabling scammers to send thousands of scam text messages at once are to be banned under the United Kingdom (UK) government's plans to crack down on fraud.

NEW YORK, April 24 — United States (US) President Donald Trump's meme coin surged more than 60 per cent on Wednesday after a post announcing "the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the world" promised the top 220 buyers of $TRUMP a private gala dinner with the president on May 22.

WASHINGTON, April 24 — The United States (US) Federal Aviation Administration upgraded Thailand's air safety rating to "Category One" on Wednesday, a decade after a downgrade, paving the way for direct US-Thailand flights to resume.