Kremlin has downplayed expectations of a rapid resolution

Says a US judge at hearing

Han was in charge of Samsung's consumer electronics and mobile devices division

Democratic lawmakers swiftly blasted the misstep, saying it was a breach of US national security and a violation of law that must be investigated by Congress.

British MPs suspect they may have been targeted by a “disinformation” campaign aimed at discrediting Ahsan Mansur, the Bangladesh Bank governor, who is leading the efforts to trace funds allegedly laundered from Bangladesh into the UK,  British newspaper The Guardian reported.

The UN said yesterday it and partners were seeking nearly $1 billion to provide life-saving aid this year for some 1.5 million Rohingya refugees and their hosts in Bangladesh.

Egypt has put forward a new proposal aimed at restoring the Gaza ceasefire deal, security sources told Reuters yesterday, as Palestinian health authorities said Israeli strikes have killed at least 65 people in the enclave in the past 24 hours.

US and Russian officials yesterday began talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at making progress towards a broad ceasefire in Ukraine with Washington eyeing a separate Black Sea maritime ceasefire deal before securing a wider agreement.

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called a snap election for April 28, saying he needed a strong mandate to deal with the threat posed by US President Donald Trump, who “wants to break us so America can own us.”

Children under 15 accounted for 4.3 percent of new and relapsed cases of tuberculosis in the WHO’s European region in 2023, 10 percent more than in the previous 12 months, a report said yesterday.

A Myanmar junta airstrike on a remote village medical clinic killed 11 people including a doctor and his wife, locals told AFP.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court yesterday reinstated Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to the post of acting president, striking down his impeachment as he pledged to focus on steering Asia’s fourth-biggest economy through a US “trade war”.

Sri Lanka will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week, an official said yesterday, as Colombo grapples with the competing interests of its powerful northern neighbour and China, its largest lender.

Turkish police have detained more than 1,100 people, including journalists, since the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival sparked the country’s worst unrest in years, a minister said yesterday.

It was not immediately clear why the journalists were detained.

Both sides have proposed different plans for temporary ceasefires, but cross-border attacks have meanwhile continued unabated.

Four people have been killed so far, with officials warning that high winds and rising temperatures were hindering efforts to put out the blazes.

A plane carrying the deportees touched down early Monday at Maiquetia International Airport outside the capital Caracas.

Trump has riled his northern neighbor by repeatedly dismissing its borders as artificial, and urging it to join the United States as the 51st state.

Imamoglu's wife warned the authorities they would face a reckoning