International

AFP/APP Sydney: Tech giant Meta said Thursday it has begun removing under-16 users in Australia from Instagram, Threads, and Facebook ahead of the country’s world-first social media ban. Australia is requiring social media platforms —…

AFP/APP Washington: President Donald Trump said Wednesday he believes Russia’s Vladimir Putin wants to end the Ukraine war despite inconclusive talks in Moscow, as US officials prepared for a follow-up meeting with Kyiv’s top negotiator.…

AFP/APP Sibolga, Indonesia: Forecasts of fresh rain on Thursday raised fears of more damage in flood-hit Indonesia and Sri Lanka, after earlier deluges killed more than 1,500 people in four countries. In Indonesia, the meteorological…

AFP/APP Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia will resume the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at the end of December, the transport ministry announced on Wednesday—more than a decade after the aircraft vanished in one of aviation’s…

APP New York: Across southeast Asia, record-breaking rains and flooding caused by back-to-back tropical storms have claimed hundreds of lives and brought devastation and displacement upon entire communities, UN agencies said on Tuesday.…

AFP/APP Tegucigalpa: A conservative candidate backed by US President Donald Trump is holding a razor-thin lead in Honduras’s presidential election, according to partial results released Monday by the National Electoral Council (CNE).…

AFP/APP Padang, Indonesia: The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,100 on Monday as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help survivors. Separate weather systems…

AFP/APP Saint-Denis, France: Some 600 experts gather outside Paris on Monday to start work on the next major UN climate report, as the international consensus on global warming is challenged by climate change-sceptic US President Donald…

AFP/APP Tegucigalpa: Polls closed Sunday in Honduras' knife-edge presidential election, after a campaign dominated by US President Donald Trump's threat to cut aid if a conservative candidate loses. Trump threw his weight behind…

AFP/APP Budapest: A prop axe was carried in as crew members prepared a horror movie scene inside Budapest’s former psychiatric institute—just one of the many Hollywood productions currently filming in the Hungarian capital. But…