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WASHINGTON, US:The next stage of the battle for Khartoum will, it seems, be decided in Cairo, Ankara and Abu Dhabi.

WASHINGTON, U.S.--On Tuesday evening, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) withdrew his war powers resolution to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition’s brutal war in Yemen in return for a promise from the Biden administration to work with him on ending U.S. involvement in the conflict.

SACRAMENTO, U.S.--A legislative initiative to create a sovereign wealth fund to support President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s national development agenda has evoked widespread controversy.

NEW YORK, U.S.--Governments and the international community must take action to protect the people who bring us the news, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, observed on Wednesday.

Law minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar has been in the news a lot recently but unlike many other politicians who are the subject of media coverage

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia--Saya selalu pelik dengan perangai pemimpin dari parti loklaq, PAS. Sebelum ini bila UMNO/BN desak Parlimen dibubarkan dan PRU15 disegerakan, mereka bermati-matian tolak desakan itu dengan alasan klise; masanya tak sesuai.

SINGAPORE CITY, Singapore--In 2012, APEC Leaders endorsed a groundbreaking initiative for green trade policy cooperation — a commitment to reduce applied tariff rates on a list of 54 environmental goods to 5 percent or less by the end of 2015. 

WASHINGTON, U.S.--Two recent reports highlight a disturbing trend in the global power dynamic. They are not receiving much attention because of the ongoing war in Ukraine, but China is exploiting this out-of-the-spotlight moment to work smartly at increasing its influence within the Muslim world. 

SANTA CLARA, U.S.--The Ukrainian crisis has nothing to do with Ukraine. It’s about Germany and, in particular, a pipeline that connects Germany to Russia called Nord Stream 2. Washington sees the pipeline as a threat to its primacy in Europe and has tried to sabotage the project at every turn. 

WASHINGTON, U.S.--The Philippines has officially become the first foreign nation to acquire the potent Indian-Russian BrahMos supersonic anti-ship missile, strengthening its navy’s ability to safeguard its sovereign claims in the South China Sea.

BANGKOK, Thailand--Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has ordered the two-metre fence around government house raised,  which critics describe as a metaphor for the government’s growing spate of dilemmas, especially with a swirling scandal over skyrocketing pork prices driven up by an outbreak of African flu that officials apparently tried to cover up, according to reports.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--As the ASEAN official in charge of drafting and implementing the 2005 ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER), it distresses me to ask my own country this question 16 years later. 

NEW YORK, U.S.--Are economic relations and trade effective tools with which Western democracies could persuade totalitarian states to introduce reforms that could lead to democratisation?

ALBANY, U.S.--With nearly 20 percent of Thailand’s pre-Covid crisis GDP related to tourism, the partial reopening of the country's borders on November 1 to international tourism was a risky move aimed at turning around the economy.