WASHINGTON, Feb 1 — United States President Donald Trump is set to sign an order today imposing hefty new tariffs of 25 per cent on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10 per cent on imports from China, potentially disrupting more than US$2.1 trillion (RM9.35 trillion) worth of annual trade.

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 — United States authorities yesterday restricted helicopter flights near Reagan Washington National Airport, after a midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter killed 67 people this week.

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 — The Trump administration has urged government workers to quit their “lower productivity jobs” and seek work in the private sector, and to take a vacation to a “dream destination”, sparking outrage among civil servants.

NAYPYIDAW, Feb 1 — Myanmar’s ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported yesterday, ahead of the four-year anniversary today of a coup that plunged the country into chaos after a decade of tentative democracy.

GENEVA, Jan 31 — The United Nations Palestinian relief agency said its humanitarian work across the occupied territories and Gaza is ongoing today despite an Israeli ban that took effect a day before and what it described as hostility towards its staff.

BRUSSELS/CAIRO, Jan 31 — The European Union has restarted its civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah, a key entry and exit point for the Palestinian territory, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said today.

GENEVA, Jan 31 — The United Nations Palestinian relief agency UNRWA said on Friday that if its humanitarian work in Gaza is forced to halt, it would put a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas at risk.

LOS ANGELES, Jan 31 — As Los Angeles recovers from its devastating wildfires, environmental engineers, urban planners and natural disaster experts are casting forward with visions of what could come next for neighborhoods that have been reduced to ash and rubble.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today expressed his deep sadness over the tragic aviation disaster at Reagan National Airport near Washington DC yesterday.

SEOUL, Jan 31 — The highly anticipated third season of Netflix’s global hit series Squid Game has officially been given a release date, Yonhap news agency reported.

WASHINGTON, Jan 31 — US authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet crashed into a US Army helicopter at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the country’s deadliest air disaster in more than 20 years.

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 — There are likely no survivors in the mid-air collision of a passenger plane and an Army Blackhawk helicopter near the Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., reported Xinhua, quoting John Donnelly, chief of the D.C.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Jan 30 — Hamas handed over three Israelis and five Thai hostages in Gaza on Thursday, but Israel delayed the expected release of Palestinian prisoners after chaotic scenes at one of the handover points, where large crowds swarmed around the captives.

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WASHINGTON, Jan 30 — An American Airlines regional passenger jet and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the frigid Potomac River after a midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night, officials said.

DAMASCUS, Jan 30 — Syria's Military Operations Administration announced on Wednesday the appointment of Ahmed al-Sharaa as president during the transitional period, granting him authority to establish an interim legislative council until a permanent constitution is ratified.

HAMILTON (Canada), Jan 30 — The United Nations (UN) reported on Wednesday that nearly 430,000 people are moving from the southern Gaza Strip to the north, according to Anadolu Agency.

NEW YORK, Jan 30 — Days after Chinese upstart DeepSeek revealed a breakthrough in cheap AI computing that shook the US technology industry, the chief executives of Microsoft and Meta defended massive spending that they said was key to staying competitive in the new field.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 — Global air cargo markets made significant strides last year, with demand rising 11.3 per cent in cargo tonne-kilometres (CTK) compared to 2023, surpassing the record volumes set in 2021, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

CAIRO, Jan 29 — Egypt will not participate in the displacement of Palestinians, an “act of injustice” that would threaten Egyptian security, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said today, in his first public response to Donald Trump’s call for Cairo to take in residents of the Gaza Strip.