Search teams have recovered debris believed to be from an Indonesian submarine missing for days in the Bali Sea, defence officials said yesterday, as hopes dwindled for the 53 crew who were expected to have run out of oxygen in the early hours.

As day two of the climate summit hosted by United States President Joe Biden got under way, a question raised by special envoy John Kerry about

US President Joe Biden yesterday said the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey and is set to further strain frayed ties between the two Nato allies.

Turkey "entirely rejects" US President Joe Biden's recognition of the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, minutes after Biden's declaration.

Southeast Asian leaders said they had agreed on a plan with Myanmar's junta chief on Saturday to end the crisis in the violence-hit nation, but he did not explicitly respond to demands to halt the killing of civilian protesters.

Search and rescue efforts for a missing Indonesian submarine with 53 crew members on board have found debris believed to be from inside the submarine, armed forces commander marshal Hadi Tjahjanto told a media briefing today.

Hopes of rescuing dozens aboard a missing Indonesian submarine faded on Saturday (April 24) as its oxygen reserves were believed to have run out, with the US, Australia and Singapore joining the hunt in waters off Bali.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he was looking at what he could do to help India, where the coronavirus pandemic is entering a deadly new phase with which its health services are struggling to cope.

Russia yesterday began withdrawing its armed forces that had been on manoeuvres near the borders of Ukraine following weeks of heightened tensions between Moscow and the West over the troop build-up.

Over 100 Palestinians and 20 Israeli police were wounded in overnight clashes in annexed east Jerusalem, authorities said yesterday, as tensions mount over a ban on gatherings and videos of attacks on youths.

Norway will offer those who have received a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 to take an injection from an mRNA vaccine as their second dose, the health ministry said yesterday.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny yesterday said he was ending a 24-day hunger strike he launched to demand medical treatment behind bars, after allies said his life was in danger.

The EU’s drug watchdog yesterday said that a review of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine found its benefits increase with age and still outweigh the risks for adults despite links to blood clots.

Indonesia’s desperate search for a missing submarine and its 53 crew was focused on a signal from an unidentified object yesterday, with just hours to go before the stricken vessel’s oxygen reserves ran out.

A search in the Mediterranean Sea for boats packed with migrants has found ten bodies floating near a capsized rubber boat that was believed to have been carrying 130 people, the French humanitarian organisation SOS Mediterranee said.

Southeast Asian leaders will try to persuade Myanmar’s junta to end violence and let in aid at a summit today, diplomats said, in the first concerted international effort to ease the crisis in the country.

The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK has called on Asean leaders to unite to push the Myanmar junta to end horrific abuses against ordinary people and ensure it does not recognise the military as the country’s legitimate rulers.

Merchant vessels and a charity ship searching the Mediterranean for boats carrying migrants has found 10 bodies floating near a capsized rubber boat believed to have had 130 people on board, French humanitarian organisation SOS Mediterranee said.

Johnson & Johnson's single-shot Covid-19 vaccine is expected to be imported to India for "fill and finish" by June or July, financial daily Mint reported on Friday, citing ANI.

At least 13 Covid-19 patients died in a fire which broke out at the intensive care unit of a hospital in Palghar district of western Indian state of Maharashtra today, police said.