15+ hour, 15+ min ago   (253+ words) Southeast Asian equity markets closed on a mixed note on Wednesday, with modest advances in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur unable to mask heavier declines in Jakarta and Bangkok. Singapore's Straits Times Index edged up 0.09% to finish at 5,701.02, as measured buying…...

1+ day, 24+ min ago   (336+ words) “Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters, according to Reuters and AP. “Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel, because he's causing a shortage of…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (443+ words) The diplomatic advisor to the UAE president, Dr Anwar Gargash, has said the meeting between Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (640+ words) India has used its turn chairing BRICS to win agreement on a joint early warning system for infectious disease outbreaks, the most concrete institutional outcome of a summit that closed in New Delhi on Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (508+ words) Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has said Iran’s condition for reopening the Strait of Hormuz is the return of the United States to its commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum, while the agenda for Monday’s meeting in the Sultanate of Oman…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (838+ words) A commercial ship was hit by an unidentified munition while passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency said on Sunday, in the latest strike on merchant traffic in a waterway that has been largely closed…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (268+ words) Zelensky said in an interview with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle that he would go to Miami if Putin attended the summit and that the two leaders should meet, talk and make decisions on ending the war. Peskov, speaking to AFP…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (289+ words) The announcement was made by the deputy energy minister, according to Iranian state media, but details on the value, duration and precise start dates of the contracts were not immediately disclosed. The combined contracted volumes amount to roughly 620 to 670 MW,…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (739+ words) An Indonesian passenger vessel carrying 243 people lost contact in the Java Sea early on Sunday, and rescuers had evacuated 103 of those aboard by later in the day, the national search and rescue agency Basarnas said. One passenger has been confirmed…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (735+ words) Delivery times for Saudi crude to Asian buyers would rise roughly two and a half times if the Bab el-Mandeb strait were closed, leaving shipments to travel around southern Africa, according to figures from the Japanese Shipowners' Association reported by…...