JERUSALEM, March 23 — Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan to separate 13 Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in Palestine from their neighbouring communities, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said today.

BEIJING, March 23 — Chinese Premier Li Qiang urged countries to open up their markets to combat “rising instability and uncertainty” at a business forum in Beijing today, as China braces for further United States tariff headwinds.

LONDON, March 23 — London’s Heathrow Airport resumed full operations today and ordered a probe into how it dealt with a power outage that shut Europe’s busiest air hub for almost a day as airlines warned of further delays and cancellations.

WASHINGTON, March 23 — United States President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished US Homeland Security Department (DHS) data show, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns in the last full year of Joe Biden’s administration.

ANKARA, March 22 — Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has denied terrorism charges brought against him, according to a court document seen by Reuters on Saturday, after he was detained by Turkiye on Wednesday for alleged corruption and terrorism.

MOSCOW, March 22 — Pope Francis, currently undergoing treatment for pneumonia, will need lengthy rehabilitation to restore speech, said the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith's prefect Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez.

ISTANBUL, March 22 — Protests against the detention of Istanbul's mayor grew on Friday and turned increasingly tense, Turkiye's biggest show of civil disobedience in more than a decade after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned it would not be tolerated.

TOKYO, March 22 — The top diplomats from Japan, China, and South Korea met in Tokyo today as the East Asian neighbours seek common ground on regional security and economic issues amid growing geopolitical uncertainty.

JAKARTA, March 22 — An eruption of Indonesia's Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano spewed ash clouds more than eight kilometres high, authorities said as they raised the alert status to the highest level, and an Australian airline cancelled some flights into Bali yesterday.

NEW YORK, March 21 — Two men whom United States (US) prosecutors say belong to a Russian organised crime group were convicted of involvement in an unsuccessful Iran-backed plot to kill a prominent New York-based dissident and journalist.

JAKARTA, March 21 — Indonesia's Parliament passed revisions to the country's military law on Thursday, allocating more civilian posts for military officers as hundreds of students and activists protested against the legislation.

MANILA, March 21 — The Malacañang Palace has expressed its appreciation to the Philippine Senate for conducting a hearing on the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte, saying it has helped clarify key legal matters for the public.

BANGKOK, March 21 — Approximately 4,895 individuals rescued from alleged job scam syndicates in Myanmar have been repatriated to their home countries, according to Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

PYLOS, Greece, March 21 — Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling yesterday to become the organisation’s first female and first African president in its 130-year history.

PARIS, March 21 — Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a Unesco report released today.

BENGALURU, March 21 — Britain's Heathrow Airport said it would be closed all of today after a huge fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out power, disrupting flight schedules around the world.

WASHINGTON/LONDON, March 21 — Slowing economic growth mixed with a bout of renewed inflation risks moving the US from global overachiever to a drag on the rest of the world as foreign central banks and others confront the spillovers from President Donald Trump's fast-moving effort to rewire international trade.

NEW DELHI, March 21 — A "new dawn" is possible in relations between Pakistan and India despite their long-standing disputes, Pakistan's top envoy in India said.

WASHINGTON, March 21 — Billionaire Elon Musk, US President Donald Trump's close ally, is due to be briefed today by the Pentagon on the US military's plan for any war that might break out with China, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing US officials.

BENGALURU, March 21 — Apple is losing more than US$1 billion (RM4.5 billion) a year on its streaming service, the Information reported yesterday, citing two people familiar with the matter.