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YAOUNDE: The World Trade Organization’s 14th ministerial conference ended early Monday without agreement on extending the long-running moratorium on customs duties for electronic transmissions, a lapse that sharpened questions about the body’s ability to update trade rules and advance wider

JAKARTA: Indonesia on Saturday began enforcing social media restrictions that bar users under 16 from holding accounts on digital platforms classified as high risk, launching a measure that immediately raises questions over access, enforcement and account removals for millions of

JAKARTA: A strong earthquake struck Indonesia’s Papua region early Friday, with monitoring agencies placing the tremor in the highlands northeast of Yalimo and reporting no tsunami threat. Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, or BMKG, measured the quake at magnitude

WASHINGTON: U.S. Vice President JD Vance welcomed UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology Sultan Al Jaber to the White House on Wednesday, in a meeting that placed bilateral relations and energy security at the center of talks in Washington.

CAMPO GRANDE: Senior officials and delegates meeting in Brazil this week said migratory species that cross national borders face mounting threats from habitat loss, pollution, climate pressures and poorly planned infrastructure, as the 15th Conference of the Parties to the

COLOMBIA: At least 66 people were killed after a Colombian military C-130 Hercules crashed seconds after takeoff from Puerto Leguizamo in the southern department of Putumayo, in one of the country’s deadliest recent military aviation disasters. Military authorities said dozens

WASHINGTON: Newly compiled U.S. State Department data show the country issued about 250,000 fewer immigrant and nonimmigrant visas from January through August 2025 than in the same period a year earlier. That amounted to an 11% decline in permanent and

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi held talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, focusing on bilateral cooperation and regional developments, according to official statements. The meeting took place during President El-Sisi’s visit

NEW YORK: Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court, accusing the artificial intelligence company of using nearly 100,000 online encyclopedia and dictionary entries without permission to train ChatGPT. The complaint, filed on March 13 in the

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia has declared three days of national mourning after the death toll from heavy rain-triggered landslides in the country’s south rose to at least 80, with recovery teams still searching for people reported missing. The mourning period begins