BEIRUT, Oct 23 — Hashem Safieddine, the top Hezbollah official widely expected to succeed slain secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli attack, the group said Wednesday.

ANKARA, Oct 23 — A deadly attack was carried out at the Turkish Aerospace Industries’ headquarters near Ankara on Wednesday, the government said, as broadcasters showed footage of several armed assailants entering the building amid reports of gunfire and a loud explosion.

GENEVA, Oct 23 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday that the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza has been postponed due to heavy Israeli bombing and displacement, the German news agency (dpa) reported.

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday maintained its global growth forecast for2024 at 3.2 per cent, consistent with its projection in July, according to its newly released World Economic Outlook (WEO), reported Xinhua.

GAZA CITY, Oct 23 — The Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza has completely run out of medical supplies and food due to the ongoing Israeli siege, with fuel supplies also nearing depletion, the hospital’s director said on Tuesday.

BEIRUT, Oct 23 — At least 18 people were killed, including four children, and 60 were wounded in an Israeli strike on Monday near Beirut's main government hospital, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM/CAIRO, Oct 22 — United States (US) Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, in the first big US push for a Middle East ceasefire since Israel killed the leader of Hamas last week — and the last attempt before a presidential election that could upend US policy.

HONG KONG, Oct 22 — China’s National Health Commission (NHC) published its first set of guidelines to standardise the diagnosis and treatment of obesity, with more than half of China’s adults already overweight and obese, and the rate expected to keep rising.

SAN JOSE, Oct 22 — Elon Musk's fixation on referencing the film Blade Runner 2049 during Tesla's recent robotaxi presentation has led to legal complications, the German News Agency (dpa) reported.

BEIJING, Oct 22 — China's third-quarter economic losses due to natural disasters, from super typhoons to floods, more than doubled from the first six months of 2024.

KOLKATA, Oct 22 — Junior doctors in India's eastern city of Kolkata called off a 17-day-old hunger strike yesterday, which launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague.

TEL AVIV, Oct 22 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Israel today, the first stop of a wider Middle East tour aimed at reviving Gaza ceasefire talks and discussing the enclave’s future following the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but any breakthrough ahead of the looming United States election looks elusive.

SINGAPORE, Oct 22 — Southeast Asia needs to increase clean energy investments to US$190 billion (RM821.2 billion), about five times the current level, by 2035 to achieve its climate goals, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today.

NEW YORK, Oct 22 — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with seven new sexual abuse suits, as his lawyers asked the judge overseeing the music mogul’s criminal sex trafficking case for a gag order against Combs’ accusers and their lawyers.

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 — The United States Justice Department yesterday proposed new rules to protect federal government data or Americans’ bulk personal data from getting into the hands of countries like China, Iran and Russia by placing new limits on certain business transactions.

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, Oct 21 — United States (US) Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make another push for a ceasefire when he heads to the Middle East on Monday, the State Department said, seeking to kick-start negotiations to end the Gaza war and also defuse the spillover conflict in Lebanon.

SINGAPORE, Oct 21 — Cambodia plans to import over 600 megawatts (MW) of clean power from neighbouring Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand, its energy minister Keo Rottanak told Reuters, increasing its contracted import capacity by over 50 per cent.

HANOI, Oct 21 — Vietnam's parliament has elected army general Lương Cường as the new state president today, in a widely anticipated move that is expected to bring some stability to Vietnamese politics after a turbulent phase of departures and reshuffles.

ANKARA, Oct 21 — Oil prices increased on Monday amid news reports that Israel is preparing a major attack on Iran in response to Tehran’s missile attack on October 1, reported Anadolu Agency.

JAKARTA, Oct 21 — Indonesia’s newly-inaugurated President Prabowo Subianto has unveiled his 48-member Red and White Cabinet, blending familiar faces from former President Joko Widodo's administration and fresh appointees.