DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec 23 — Amid escalating conflict between the junta government and rebel Arakan Army in Myanmar, approximately 60,000 Rohingya entered Bangladesh in the last two months, Anadolu Agency quoted a Bangladeshi official on yesterday.

LONDON, Dec 23 — A new weapon that uses high-frequency radio waves to take out enemy drones has been trialled by British soldiers, reported German news agency (dpa).

SYDNEY, Dec 23 — An Australian man has been arrested and charged with animal cruelty offences after 98 kangaroos were found dead north of Sydney, reported Xinhua.

TOKYO, Dec 23 — Honda Motor Co and Nissan Motor Co aim to conclude their merger talks in June, Kyodo news agency quoted a source familiar with the matter said today.

NEW YORK, Dec 23 — No sooner had the global economy started to put the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic behind it than a whole new set of challenges opened up for 2025.

DAEJEON, South Korea, Dec 23 — South Korean researchers have developed a lightweight wearable robot that can walk up to paraplegic users and lock itself onto them, enabling them to walk, manoeuvre obstacles and climb staircases.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 23 — President-elect Donald Trump threatened to reassert US control over the Panama Canal yesterday, accusing Panama of charging excessive rates to use the Central American passage and drawing a sharp rebuke from Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino.

CAIRO, Dec 23 — Israel ordered the closure and evacuation yesterday of one of the last hospitals still partly functioning in a besieged area on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, forcing medics to search for a way to bring hundreds of patients and staff to safety.

SINGAPORE, Dec 23 — Singapore Post said yesterday it had dismissed its chief executive and two other senior managers after an internal investigation found they had mishandled whistleblower allegations about misconduct by company employees.

CAIRO, Dec 22 — Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, eight of them at a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City, medics said, as the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a hospital in the north.

BERLIN, Dec 22 — A man suspected of ploughing a car through crowds at a German Christmas market in an attack that killed five people and injured scores faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, police said on Sunday.

ANKARA, Dec 22 — Four people were killed in southwest Turkey on Sunday when an ambulance helicopter collided with a hospital building and crashed into the ground.

KYOTO, Dec 22 — A Japanese university and construction company have partnered on research to develop a lunar habitat capable of generating artificial gravity, enabling people to live on the moon under conditions similar to those on Earth, Kyodo News reported.

MAGDEBURG, Dec 22 — German authorities charged the suspect in the deadly attack on a Christmas market that killed five and wounded 200 with numerous counts of murder, attempted murder, and other charges, the police announced early this morning, the German news agency dpa reported.

CAIRO, Dec 22 — A hospital in the north of the embattled Gaza Strip has urgently appealed to the international community for medication and food, saying it is no longer able to care for patients, reported German news agency dpa.

MAGDEBURG, Dec 22 — Authorities investigated a Saudi doctor with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg that killed five people and injured scores.

MAMOUDZOU, Dec 22 — Angry residents of a Mayotte neighbourhood damaged by Cyclone Chido heckled French President Emmanuel Macron, who replied they would be in "deeper shit" without France as he toured the Indian Ocean archipelago.

VATICAN CITY, Dec 21 — Pope Francis today again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study whether the military offensive there constitutes a genocide of Palestinians.

SACRAMENTO, Dec 21 — LA Lakers star LeBron James broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s long standing NBA record for most minutes played in regular season history when he clocked his 57,447th minute in his team’s win over Sacramento Kings on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Dec 20 — Nine Palestinian-Americans sued the United States government yesterday, alleging it had failed to rescue them or members of their families who were trapped in Gaza where Israel’s war has killed tens of thousands and caused a humanitarian crisis.