U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to meet Gulf leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to discuss the next steps in the Iran war, U.S. online news outlet Axios reported Wednesday.The meeting is expected to focus on U.S. ideas for a postwar strategy, the

Saudi warplanes pounded Yemen and Houthi fighters launched drones and missiles at Saudi cities, the Iran-backed movement said on Wednesday, after a lightning advance that has extended Tehran's reach in the Middle East war.

Sri Lanka has taken steps to establish emergency disaster response units at the divisional secretariat level within the next two weeks as authorities prepare for possible floods and landslides during the coming rainy season, Environment Minister Dammika Patabendi said on Thursday.Patabendi said the

India and Pakistan traded blame on Wednesday for a collision at sea between two vessels operated by their navies, summoning each other's top diplomats to lodge "strong" protests.

The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday local time, marking its first increase in more than three years, as persistent inflation, rising energy costs and resilient economic activity pushed the central bank back toward tightening.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reshuffled her cabinet on Thursday, retaining many key ministers while bringing in a newcomer from the Japan Innovation Party, the junior coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

Amid an international landscape marked by intertwined changes and turmoil, the security deficit has become increasingly worrying. The international community has never lacked demands for security; what is truly scarce is effective approaches to address such demands.

Malaysian businesses seek to unlock the potential and opportunities available at this year's China-ASEAN Expo, according to a Malaysian business leader.

The European Union will create a "climate insurance alliance" to increase cover for extreme weather events, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday, as the bloc emerges from a summer of drought, wildfires and heatwaves.

Traditional dyehouse in Cairo, Egypt

A motorist was arrested on murder charges after authorities say she slammed her SUV into a city bus in Los Angeles, killing at least two people and injuring six others in a prelude to a second deadly tragedy: the fiery crash of a TV news helicopter that was covering the collision.Bailee Lynn Rios,

Ministers of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's cabinet submitted letters of resignation en masse at an extraordinary cabinet meeting on Thursday, ahead of a planned cabinet reshuffle.The new cabinet lineup is scheduled to be announced later in the day.

Two women have died and a man has been hospitalized following a collision between two vehicles in southwest Melbourne on Wednesday night.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved 650 million U.S. dollars in financing to support Indonesia's efforts to improve fiscal management, accelerate government digitalization and enhance the quality of public services, the bank said Wednesday."The country's strengthened fiscal and digital

Japan's remilitarization and the deployment of missiles near Russia's borders pose a threat to the latter's national security, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Sweden's center-left opposition bloc held a razor-thin lead in the parliamentary election, with 175 of the 349 seats in the Riksdag against 174 for the right-wing bloc backing the incumbent government, according to preliminary results reported by Swedish Television (SVT) on Wednesday.With 99