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Residents stock up on supplies at a supermarket to prepare for the approaching Typhoon Ragasa in Hong Kong September 22, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific says to axe over 500 flights as typhoon nears

Police officers detain a protester during a protest denouncing what they call corruption linked to flood control projects, in Manila September 21, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

Philippine police clash with protesters, arrest over 200 amid flood-control scandal outrage

Indonesia’s defence ministry put out a full-page advertisement in the country’s largest newspaper today, detailing and defending key non-defence programmes being run by the military, amid criticism of the force’s increased role under President Prabowo Subianto. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

Indonesian govt defends military’s expanded role in full-page ad, fuelling debate over Prabowo’s use in civilian sectors

This aerial view shows thousands of people during a protest against a constitutional amendment known as the Shielding Project, which requires Congress to authorize any criminal charges against deputies and senators through a secret vote, in Sao Paulo September 21, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

Tens of thousands rally in Brazil with ‘no amnesty’ message against Bolsonaro’s immunity push for himself and lawmakers

A general view of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. March 21, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

News outlets condemn Pentagon’s media restrictions as threat to press freedom

The Pentagon building is seen in Arlington, Virginia October 9, 2020. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

Trump's Pentagon says press must agree not to disclose sensitive information

Hong Kong International Airport is planning to suspend all passenger flights for 36 hours as the Asian financial hub prepares for one of its strongest super typhoons in years. — AFP pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

Hong Kong airport may suspend flights for 36 hours as super typhoon Ragasa nears, Bloomberg News reports

A US Marine Corps F-35 fighter jet approaches the former Roosevelt Roads military base in Ceiba, Puerto Rico September 19, 2025. US warplanes attacked a drug-running boat off the coast of the Dominican Republic, its drug enforcement agency and a US official announced yesterday in an expansion of American military activity in the Caribbean. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

US warplanes strike drug boat off Dominican Republic in expanded Caribbean campaign, killing three

File picture of Typhoon Doksuri passing the northern tip of Luzon island in the Philippines July 26, 2023. Hundreds of families sheltered in schools and evacuation centres today as heavy rains and gale-force winds from Super Typhoon Ragasa lashed the northern Philippines and southern Taiwan. — AFP pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

Schools shut, shelters fill as Super Typhoon Ragasa nears landfall in Philippines and Taiwan

In this file photo taken on June 30, 2019, US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un stand on North Korean soil while walking to South Korea in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), in Panmunjom, Korea. — AFP pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

North Korea’s Kim recalls ‘fond memories’ of Trump, signals openness to US talks

A still image from video shows U.S. President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk shaking hands in a skybox at State Farm Stadium during the memorial service for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, in Glendale, Arizona September 21, 2025. — Reuters TV pic via Reuters
World / 22 Sep 2025

Months after messy split, Trump and Musk sit side by side ‘for Charlie’

US President Donald Trump points a finger onstage during a memorial service for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium, in Glendale, Arizona September 21, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

At Kirk memorial, Trump rallies MAGA base and blames political opponents for killing

A sign is seen outside the Palestine Mission to the UK on September 21, 2025 in west London. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday said Britain was formally recognising a State of Palestine, in a historic shift in decades of British foreign policy. — AFP pic
World / 22 Sep 2025

Western powers recognise Palestinian state in historic break with decades of policy; Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘it will not happen’

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents armed with less-lethal weapons gather outside an ICE processing center during a protest in Broadview, Illinois, on September 19, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 21 Sep 2025

Beware of ICE on roads: Migrants in Texas patrol streets and social media to warn each other of raids

Travellers wait in terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport, west of London on September 20, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 21 Sep 2025

European airports begin recovery after cyberattack cripples check-in systems

A supporter attends a vigil in memory of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk who was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University, outside the headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Arizona September 19, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 21 Sep 2025

After Kirk’s death, Trump White House scrambles to preserve his youth voter machine