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Asean foreign ministers to demand freedom of navigation in Hormuz strait
MANILA, July 23 — Foreign ministers from fuel-stressed Southeast Asia will call for freedom of navigation in international straits when they wrap a week of meetings largely overshadowed by the US-Iran war, according to a draft communique seen by AFP.
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Houthis attack Saudi oil tankers as US-Iran War explodes into new front
DUBAI, July 23 — Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed to have struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea on Wednesday, potentially opening a new front in the US-Iran war engulfing the region. The claim came as the United States
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Indonesia cuts more than US$2b in free meal budget
JAKARTA, July 22 — Indonesia has further cut the budget of President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meal programme by more than US$2 billion (RM8.18 billion), officials said, in a move expected to reduce access to the scheme. The multi-billion dollar
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Colombia president-elect confirms country to host office of Trump’s anti-cartel alliance
MEDELLÍN (Colombia), July 22 — Colombia will host an office belonging to US President Donald Trump’s “Shield of the Americas” initiative, the South American country’s hard-right president-elect announced yesterday. The world’s largest cocaine producer, Colombia is currently not a member of
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Faecal bacteria found in drinking water as thousands fall ill in North Macedonia outbreak
SKOPJE (North Macedonia), July 22 — A mass poisoning in North Macedonia that affected hundreds of people amid high summer temperatures has been linked to high levels of bacteria in drinking water, prosecutors said yesterday. More than 3,100 people have
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Iran launches new regional attacks as Houthis threaten Saudi ports
TEHRAN, July 21 — Iran stepped up its attacks in the Middle East today, two weeks after its war with the United States resumed, with sirens sounding in Bahrain and Jordan announcing it had intercepted two waves of missiles and
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Indonesia approves new international financial centre — and it might be in Bali
JAKARTA, July 21 — Indonesia’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to establish an international financial centre, with the resort island of Bali previously floated as a possible location. Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa said the financial centre, known as
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Up to US$114b lost in Asia-Pacific scams last year, nearly triple 2023 level, says UN
BANGKOK, July 21 — Victims of transnational online scams in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand lost up to US$114.1 billion (RM466.40 billion) last year, a UN report said today, with estimated losses at least tripling from 2023. Southeast
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Pezeshkian warns of ‘full-scale war’ as Trump vows Iran will pay ‘many times over’ for US deaths
TEHRAN, July 21 — US President Donald Trump warned Iran on Monday that it would pay “many times over” for every American soldier killed as a top Iranian leader said the conflict has escalated into a “full-scale war.” As the
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‘We are going back’: Israelis rally near Gaza border demanding re-establishment of settlements
ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER, July 20 — Thousands of Israelis, including settlers and right-wing activists, marched towards the border with Gaza on Sunday, calling on the government to re-establish Israeli settlements in the war-shattered Palestinian territory, an AFP journalist reported. The demonstrators
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