BANGKOK, Dec 10 — Thailand welcomed 32.7 million international tourists between January 1 and December 8, 2024, generating approximately 1.535 trillion baht (RM201 billion) in tourism revenue, said Tourism and Sports Minister Sorawong Thianthong.

YAYLADAGI, Dec 10 — Ala Jabeer cried as he prepared to cross from Turkiye into Syria with his 10-year-old daughter on Tuesday, thirteen years after the war forced him to flee his home.

AMSTERDAM, Dec 10 — The Dutch police have arrested three people following an explosion that killed six people and injured four in an apartment building in The Hague, the police said on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI, Dec 10 — Indian opposition parties moved to impeach Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday, a spokesman said, accusing him of being partisan in his role as chairman of parliament's upper house, in a first such move in the country's history.

GENEVA, Dec 10 — The global airlines industry is projected to strengthen its profitability in 2025 with a net profit of US$36.6 billion (RM161.8 billion), representing a 3.6 per cent net profit margin amid ongoing cost and supply chain disruption, said the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

OSLO, Dec 10 — Russian President Vladimir Putin does not truly understand the destructive power of nuclear weapons, a 92-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki said yesterday, on the eve of his Japanese survivors’ group receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 — Chinese-based ByteDance and its short-video app TikTok asked an appeals court on Monday to temporarily block a law that would require that parent company ByteDance to divest TikTok by Jan.

BANGKOK, Dec 9 — Thailand is preparing for a second wave of heavy rain and potential flooding in its southern provinces this week, the authorities announced today.

BRUSSELS, Dec 9 — This year will be the world's warmest since records began, with extraordinarily high temperatures expected to persist into at least the first few months of 2025, European Union scientists said today.

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 — US president-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that aired yesterday he would act on his first day in office to pardon rioters involved in the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, further building expectations for a broad granting of clemency.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, Dec 9 — China's top electric vehicle producer BYD is set to show further market share gains when November vehicle sales data is released later today, putting it on course to exceed its annual goal and overtake Ford and Honda in global sales.

PARIS, Dec 9 — The word ‘Merci’ was projected on to the front of Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral as it reopened on Saturday, in thanks for its salvation after a devastating fire that brought the 860-year-old building close to collapse five years ago.

BEIRUT, Dec 9 — As the commander of al Qaeda's franchise in the Syrian civil war, Abu Mohammed al-Golani was a shadowy figure who kept out of the public eye, even when his group became the most powerful faction fighting to topple Bashar al-Assad.

AMMAN/BEIRUT/CAIRO, Dec 8 — Syrian rebels declared President Bashar al-Assad's ouster after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, forcing him to flee and ending his family's decades of rule after more than 13 years of civil war in a seismic moment for the Middle East.

AMMAN/BEIRUT/CAIRO, Dec 8 — Syrian rebels have said that they ended Bashar al-Assad's 24-year authoritarian rule, in their first announcement on state television following a lightning offensive that took the world by surprise.

TAIPEI, Dec 8 — Taiwan's defence ministry has said on Sunday that China had nearly doubled the number of its warships operating around the island in the previous 24 hours, ahead of what security sources expect will be a new round of war games.

SEOUL, Dec 8 — South Korean prosecutors arrested ex-defence minister Kim Yong-hyun on Sunday over his alleged role in President Yoon Suk-yeol's declaration of martial law on Tuesday, Yonhap News Agency said.

SEOUL, Dec 7 — South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol survived an impeachment vote in the opposition-led Parliament on Saturday that was prompted by his short-lived attempt to impose martial law this week, after members of his party boycotted the session.

SEOUL, Dec 7 — Members of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol's party left Parliament ahead of a planned impeachment vote on Saturday over his attempt to impose martial law.

JAKARTA, Dec 7 — Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has expressed support for the resignation of Miftah Maulana Habiburrahman, also known as Gus Miftah, from his position as the President’s Special Envoy for Religious Harmony and Development of Religious Facilities, following a viral video in which he insulted an iced tea seller.