International

AFP/APP New York: Streaming giant Netflix said Friday it will buy film and television studio Warner Bros. Discovery for nearly $83 billion, marking the entertainment industry’s biggest consolidation deal of the decade. The acquisition…

AFP/APP New Delhi: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit on Friday, with defence and trade ties expected to take centre stage as New Delhi faces mounting US pressure to halt its…

AFP/APP Brussels, Belgium: The European Union on Thursday opened an antitrust investigation into Meta to determine whether the company’s rollout of new AI features on WhatsApp violates the bloc’s competition rules. The case marks the…

AFP/APP Sydney: Tech giant Meta said Thursday it has begun removing under-16 users in Australia from Instagram, Threads, and Facebook ahead of the country’s world-first social media ban. Australia is requiring social media platforms —…

AFP/APP Washington: President Donald Trump said Wednesday he believes Russia’s Vladimir Putin wants to end the Ukraine war despite inconclusive talks in Moscow, as US officials prepared for a follow-up meeting with Kyiv’s top negotiator.…

AFP/APP Sibolga, Indonesia: Forecasts of fresh rain on Thursday raised fears of more damage in flood-hit Indonesia and Sri Lanka, after earlier deluges killed more than 1,500 people in four countries. In Indonesia, the meteorological…

AFP/APP Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia will resume the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at the end of December, the transport ministry announced on Wednesday—more than a decade after the aircraft vanished in one of aviation’s…

APP New York: Across southeast Asia, record-breaking rains and flooding caused by back-to-back tropical storms have claimed hundreds of lives and brought devastation and displacement upon entire communities, UN agencies said on Tuesday.…

AFP/APP Tegucigalpa: A conservative candidate backed by US President Donald Trump is holding a razor-thin lead in Honduras’s presidential election, according to partial results released Monday by the National Electoral Council (CNE).…

AFP/APP Padang, Indonesia: The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,100 on Monday as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help survivors. Separate weather systems…