LOS ANGELES, Feb 7 — The NCAA, the governing body for collegiate sports in the United States, banned transgender women from competing in women's sports effective immediately yesterday, aligning itself with US President Donald Trump.

PARIS, Feb 7 — France and the United Arab Emirates agreed yesterday to a framework accord for a 1 gigawatt data centre dedicated to artificial intelligence that represents investments of between US$30–US$50 billion (RM135–RM225 billion), the French presidency said.

WASHINGTON, Feb 7 — US President Donald Trump yesterday authorised economic and travel sanctions targeting people who work on International Criminal Court investigations of US citizens or US allies such as Israel, repeating action he took during his first term.

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, Feb 6 — United States President Donald Trump said today that Israel would hand over Gaza to the US after fighting is over, and the enclave’s population was already resettled elsewhere, which he said meant no US troops would be needed on the ground.

MANILA, Feb 6 — The Philippine lower house yesterday impeached Vice-President Sara Duterte, the daughter of the country’s firebrand former leader, setting the stage for a rare, high-profile trial in the Senate.

SYDNEY, Feb 6 — Australia passed tough anti-hate crime laws today, including mandatory minimum sentences for terror offences and displaying hate symbols, in a bid to tackle a recent surge in antisemitism.

DHAKA, Feb 6 — Thousands of protesters set fire to the home of Bangladesh's founding leader, as his daughter, ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina delivered a fiery social media speech calling on her supporters to stand against the interim government.

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 — China filed a World Trade Organisation complaint on Wednesday against US President Donald Trump's new 10 per cent tariff on Chinese imports and his cancellation of a duty-free exemption for low-value packages, arguing the actions are "protectionist" and break WTO rules.

BRUSSELS, Feb 6 — Chinese online marketplace Temu and fast-fashion retailer Shein will be liable for the sale of unsafe and dangerous products on their platforms, the European Commission said yesterday, as part of a crackdown against a flood of cheap e-commerce imports into the European Union.

AMRITSAR, Feb 6 — A US military plane carrying 104 deported Indian illegal immigrants landed in India yesterday, authorities said, part of President Donald Trump's immigration agenda a week before he is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington.

NEW YORK, Feb 6 — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday told President Donald Trump to avoid ethnic cleansing in Gaza after the US leader proposed that Palestinians resettle elsewhere and the United States take over the war-torn enclave.

CAIRO/GAZA, Feb 5 — Gazans criticised United States President Donald Trump’s plan to take over the Gaza Strip and resettle Palestinians elsewhere, vowing to never leave the ruins of their homes in the coastal enclave that Trump wants to turn into a “Riviera of the Middle East”.

BANGKOK, Feb 5 — Thailand has cut electricity, internet and fuel supplies to five border areas in Myanmar, a senior Thai minister said today, as the Southeast Asian nation steps up efforts to choke scam centres that have become a growing security concern.

TOKYO, Feb 5 — Japan's Nissan may call off its merger talks with Honda, according to a person familiar with the matter, adding that Nissan's board members were due to meet in the near future to decide a course of action.

WASHINGTON, Feb 5 — President Donald Trump said the US would take over the war-ravaged Gaza Strip and develop it economically after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere, moves that would shatter decades of US policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

ASTANA, Feb 5 — An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan had suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, according to a report published on a Kazakh government website today.

SINGAPORE, Feb 5 — The Singapore Parliament passed a bill yesterday that will consolidate and strengthen the government’s powers, including introducing the use of Restraining Order (RO) to maintain racial harmony and address related threats in the country.

OREBRO, Sweden, Feb 5 — Eleven people were killed in a shooting at an adult education centre yesterday, Swedish police said, marking the country's deadliest gun attack in what the prime minister called a "painful day".

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 4 — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Elon Musk on the subject of misinformation about South Africa, the presidency said today, after United States President Donald Trump said he would suspend aid to the country over its land reform policy.

SYDNEY, Feb 4 — Australia has banned DeepSeek from all government devices over concerns that the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup poses security risks, the government said today.