JEDDAH, March 12 — The United States agreed yesterday to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after talks where Kyiv said it would accept a US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in its conflict with Russia, the countries said in a joint statement.

WASHINGTON/KYIV, March 4 — Ukraine has said its forces could hold their own on the battlefield as they fight Russian troops after United States (US) President Donald Trump paused military aid to Kyiv in the most dramatic step yet in his pivot towards closer ties with Russia.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 27 — Several key issues, including defence, security, and the economy, were discussed between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu today.

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged the United States yesterday to provide a security “backstop” to any future European peacekeepers in Ukraine, saying only that would offer Kyiv a lasting peace rather than a temporary ceasefire.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 27 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today received a courtesy call from Russian Security Council secretary Sergei Shoigu to discuss security and defence.

BRUSSELS, Feb 24 — European Union (EU) foreign ministers adopted a 16th package of sanctions against Russia, which targets a cryptocurrency exchange for the first time, a Council statement said.

KYIV, Feb 24 — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday that Russia launched more than 200 drones in an overnight attack, the largest of the war, as he condemned Russia's "aerial terror" and called for unity among Ukraine's allies.

JAKARTA, Feb 20 — Russia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are working on a comprehensive plan for the main areas of cooperation for the next five years, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told RIA Novosti.

MUNICH/WASHINGTON, Feb 16 — United States (US) and Russian officials will meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to start talks aimed at ending Moscow's nearly three-year war in Ukraine, a US lawmaker and a source familiar with the planning said on Saturday.

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.

By Yasmin Ramlan  KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — Malaysia’s decision to engage with BRICS is driven by economic pragmatism rather than geopolitical alignment, said Defence Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.  He clarified that its recent admission as a country partner in the intergovernmental...

BAKU/MOSCOW, Dec 29 — Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said today a passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people, had been damaged by shooting from the ground in Russia, and he said some in Russia had lied about the cause of the disaster.

ISTANBUL, Dec 27 — A top Kazakh official said law enforcement agencies from Azerbaijan and Russia will not be allowed to participate in the forensic investigation of Wednesday's Azerbaijan Airlines (Azal) plane crash near the city of Aktau, Anadolu Agency reported.

BAKU, Dec 26 — An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday killing 38 people was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.

MOSCOW, Dec 23 — Malaysia, Belarus, Bolivia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Cuba, Uganda, and Uzbekistan will officially become BRICS partners from January 1, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said yesterday.

KYIV, Dec 20 — As the future of warfare pivots towards artificial intelligence (AI), Ukraine is sitting on a valuable resource — millions of hours of footage from drones that can be used to train AI models to make decisions on the battlefield.

MOSCOW, Dec 20 — Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with US President-elect Donald Trump on ending the war and had no conditions for starting talks with the Ukrainian authorities.

MOSCOW, Dec 19 — Russian President Vladimir Putin today suggested a missile “duel” with the United States that would show how Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile could defeat any US missile defence system.

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 — President Joe Biden is pushing the United States’ national security agencies ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration to devise new strategies to tackle the risky, deepening ties among Russia, Iran, North Korea and China, said US officials.

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.