DUBAI, March 3 — Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said yesterday that Egypt's Gaza reconstruction plan, which ensures Palestinians remain in their land, is ready and will be presented at an emergency Arab summit in Cairo tomorrow.

ISTANBUL, March 2 — The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has called on the international community to “take responsibility and pressure Israel into allowing a sustained flow of aid into Gaza and prevent Tel Aviv from weaponising hunger to advance its political agenda.” According to Anadolu Ajansi,...

LONDON, March 2 — The United Kingdom's (UK) Prime Minister Keir Starmer has dismissed calls to cancel the offer of a state visit to United States (US) President Donald Trump after his extraordinary row with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White House.

WASHINGTON, March 2 — United States (US) President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday to make English the official language of the nation, Anadolu Ajansi reported.

LONDON, March 2 — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will try to revive hope for peace in Ukraine at a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other Western leaders on Sunday, two days after the Ukrainian leader and United States (US) President Donald Trump clashed in Washington.

REDMOND, Mar 1 — Skype will ring for the last time on May 5 as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders.

VANNES, Mar 1 — When police told Louis-Marie, 35, they believed he had been sexually abused two decades earlier by a surgeon who treated him for appendicitis, he thought it was a prank.

AMSTERDAM, Mar 1 — Twenty-five people were arrested this week for their role in a criminal group that distributes images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) of children being sexually abused, the European Union’s police agency said yesterday.

GENEVA, Feb 29 — US aid cuts are having an extreme and immediate impact on thousands of children in Haiti as violence spirals and more youth are recruited by armed gangs, the United Nations children’s agency Unicef warned today.

BEIJING, Feb 28 — Beijing accused the United States today of exerting “tariff pressure and blackmail” after President Donald Trump’s latest threat to slap an extra duty of 10 per cent on imports from China, citing a continued flow of fentanyl into the country.

SEOUL/PARIS, Feb 28 — Next month marks three years since a China Eastern jet plunged into a hillside killing 132 people, with relatives still waiting to learn what caused China’s deadliest air disaster in three decades.

SYDNEY, Feb 28 — Australia “strongly disagrees” with Thailand’s decision to transfer 40 Uyghurs to China against their will and has raised concerns about their treatment with the Chinese government, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said today.

TAIPEI, Feb 28 — Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said today that the history of World War II shows aggression and expansion will end in failure, responding to Chinese comments that the island would come into Beijing’s hands sooner or later.

TOKYO, Feb 28 — Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side — a manoeuvre used to change diapers or prevent bedsores in the elderly.

DAMASCUS, Feb 28 — More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or maltreatment at a site that was widely feared, according to a report to be published Thursday tracing the deaths to seven suspected grave sites.

GENEVA, Feb 28 — The UN human rights chief warned of the risk of a further escalation of the war in Sudan on Thursday and said that there was a growing risk of deaths from starvation on a wide scale.

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 — Microsoft has urged United States (US) President Donald Trump's team to ease export restrictions imposed on artificial intelligence (AI) chips in the closing days of the Biden administration, saying the measures should not extend to a group of US allies.

SANTA FE, Feb 27 — Gene Hackman, the intense character actor who won two Oscars in a more than 60-year career, has died alongside his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, and their dog at home, the sheriff's office in Santa Fe, New Mexico, said on Thursday.

BANGKOK, Feb 27 — An ongoing effort targeting scam compounds along Thailand’s border with Myanmar has led to only a small proportion of workers there being pulled out, a top Thai opposition lawmaker said, calling for more comprehensive measures to stomp out a booming illegal industry.

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged the United States yesterday to provide a security “backstop” to any future European peacekeepers in Ukraine, saying only that would offer Kyiv a lasting peace rather than a temporary ceasefire.