Malaysia’s coastguard said yesterday it was doubling patrols in its waters to locate boats carrying undocumented Myanmar migrants, after almost 200 were detained on an island in the northwestern Malaysian state of Kedah.

Two people in India set themselves on fire yesterday to protest against the disposal of hazardous waste from the decades-old Bhopal industrial disaster, local government officials said.

South Korean investigators yesterday abandoned their attempt to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence over a failed martial law bid, citing safety concerns after a standoff with his security team.

US President Joe Biden on Thursday awarded Liz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman and fierce critic of Donald Trump, with a citizens service medal, after the incoming president warned she “could be in a lot of trouble” once he takes office.

The disclosures by the US State Department include high-value items such as a $20,000 diamond gifted to First Lady Jill Biden.

A small plane crashed into a commercial building in California on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 18 others, police said.

South Korean investigators attempted to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence Friday over a failed martial law bid, but were being blocked by his security forces

A US army veteran motivated by loyalty to the jihadist group Islamic State likely acted alone when he killed and injured dozens in a truck attack against a New Orleans crowd of New Year revellers, the FBI said yesterday.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 43 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip yesterday, including 11 people in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, medics said.

China sanctioned 10 US defence firms yesterday over arms sales to Taiwan, its second round of measures against American companies over the issue in less than a week.

Twenty-seven migrants, including women and children, died after two boats capsized off central Tunisia, with 83 people rescued, a civil defence official told AFP yesterday.

South Korean police raided the offices of Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport yesterday as they step up a probe into the fatal crash of a Boeing 737-800 that killed 179 people.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday accused the Indian Border Security Force of letting infiltrators from Bangladesh enter India to destabilise the state.

More than 528,500 people were killed in the Syrian civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said on Wednesday.

Montenegro began three days of national mourning yesterday after a gunman went on a rampage after opening fire at a village restaurant, killing 12 people including two children.

Around 36,816 people were detected crossing the Channel last year, a 25 percent increase from the 29,437 who arrived in 2023, according to provisional figures from the ministry.

No group has claimed the four activists' abduction and they have not been heard from since.

Yoon has gone to ground but remained unrepentant as the crisis has rolled on, issuing a defiant message to his base days before an arrest warrant expires on January 6.

Joe Biden said authorities were investigating any links between the Las Vegas explosion and an attack earlier Wednesday in New Orleans

Hamas condemned the decision to ban the network