US President Donald Trump is to host a Central Asian summit next week, the leaders of two countries have said, as major powers jockey for influence in the resource-rich region.

Afghanistan and Pakistan entered a third day of negotiations yesterday to secure a lasting ceasefire, with Kabul urging “dialogue and understanding” after Islamabad warned of war if talks collapse.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with India’s foreign minister yesterday, as the two countries push trade talks and ease tensions over Washington’s punishing tariffs.

Optimism grew Monday that Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping will end their bruising trade war during talks this week, as the US president touched down in Tokyo on the latest leg of an Asian tour.

Some 28 so-called carbon bomb fossil fuel extraction projects have begun operating since 2021 despite their catastrophic climate impact, a group of NGOs warned yesterday.

Donald Trump yesterday said that he would not run for vice president in the 2028 American election, a move some supporters suggest would allow him to skirt term limits and stay in the White House.

Southeast Asia’s Asean bloc will not send observers to Myanmar’s elections in December, diplomatic sources said Monday -- a setback to the junta’s push for international legitimacy.

Said on his visit with North Korean Foreign Minister

Earlier, Brigiite and Emmanuel Macron filed defamation lawsuit for online rumours

The decision came as a ceasefire that began on October 10 largely continued to hold

He is expected to meet new conservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi tomorrow

Trump congratulated Milei and said his Argentine counterpart was doing a "wonderful job!"

Air Force One took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at around 10:10am

Melissa has already been blamed for at least four deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic this week

Two US Navy aircraft crashed into the South China Sea in separate incidents on Sunday, officials said, with no fatalities reported

Kosovo’s caretaker prime minister, Albin Kurti, yesterday failed to secure enough parliamentary support to form a government, deepening the country’s months-long political crisis.

Yemen’s Houthis arrested three local United Nations staff, including two women, accusing them of spying for Israel, a security source from the rebel group told AFP yesterday.

Hurricane Melissa was cutting a deadly path through the Caribbean yesterday, strengthening into a Category 4 storm as it crawled along a worryingly slow course toward Jamaica and the island of Hispaniola.

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group said yesterday it was withdrawing from Turkey as part of a disarmament process being coordinated with the government, pressing Ankara to move ahead with steps allowing it to enter politics.

Lebanon’s health ministry said yesterday that an Israeli strike on the country’s south and east killed two people, the latest in a string of deadly attacks despite a ceasefire.