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The climate goals for 2035 of the countries that signed the Paris Agreement, also known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), were initially expected several months ago. — AFP pic
World / 20 Sep 2025

UN chief warns 1.5ºC warming goal at risk of ‘collapsing’

French President's wife Brigitte Macron is suing conservative American commentator Candace Owens for the latter's claims that the former is transgender. — AFP pool pic
World / 20 Sep 2025

French first couple to present ‘scientific’ evidence in lawsuit against US influencer

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an AFP interview ahead of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2025. The first day of high-level General Debate for the 80th session of the UN General Assembly will begin on September 23, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 20 Sep 2025

UN chief says world should not be intimidated by Israel

The Department of Education announced in a statement that it has placed Harvard under 'heightened cash monitoring (HCM) status' saying there were 'growing concerns regarding the university’s financial position.' — AFP pic
World / 20 Sep 2025

Trump administration hits Harvard with new restrictions on funds

More than 100 flood-control projects are at the centre of the country’s biggest corruption scandal in decades. It has already sparked leadership changes in both houses of Congress but the real impact is among communities left without protection, many of them strung along rivers in the Bulacan region. — AFP pic
World / 20 Sep 2025

Philippine taxpayers soaked as RM72b ‘ghost’ flood-project scandal leaves towns under water

Demonstrators protest the suspension of the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ show outside the El Capitan Entertainment Centre where the show is performed in Los Angeles September 18, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 20 Sep 2025

From Colbert to Kimmel, US late-night hosts face corporate retreat under Trump pressure

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was pulled from the air on September 17, 2025, hours after the US government threatened to cancel broadcasting licences because of comments the host made about the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. — AFP pic
World / 20 Sep 2025

Free speech or overreach? What Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension says about US broadcast law

Nineteen-year-old Joseph Lee, one of the youth plaintiffs in the Lighthiser v. Trump case, poses outside Russell Smith Courthouse in Missoula, Montana, September 17, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

Young plaintiffs stand tall after taking on Trump’s climate agenda in court

Nepal’s interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki addresses as President Ram Chandra Paudel applauds while attending the Constitution Day at the Army Pavilion in Tundikhel, Kathmandu, Nepal September 19, 2025. — Reuters pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

‘We must accept failure’: Nepal’s first woman PM vows reform after deadly protests

Elephants eat jackfruit leaves at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Pinnawala, Sri Lanka February 16, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

Sri Lankan man jailed 15 years in country’s first elephant trafficking case

This file picture shows people standing on August 11, 1982 in front of the Jo-Goldenberg restaurant in Paris, two days after it was devastated by an attack by gunmen that threw a grenade into the restaurant and shot at customers with sub-machine guns, killing six customers and injuring 22 others. — AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

France says Palestinian authorities arrest suspect over 1982 antisemitic Paris attack

This combination of pictures created on September 19, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. — AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

‘I like TikTok’: Trump, Xi push app deal as US-China trade talks resume

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun speaks during a press conference at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Seoul on September 19, 2025. — AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

Seoul vows to tackle US visa woes before rolling out US$350b investment package

The agency’s head of earthquake and tsunami mitigation, Daryono said on X that 50 aftershocks had been recorded — the largest with a magnitude of 5.1 — as of 7.30 am Jakarta time. — Reuters pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

Quake rattles Indonesia’s Central Papua: 6.1 magnitude tremor damages buildings, cuts power

This combination of pictures created on September 18, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump in Morristown, New Jersey on September 14, 2025 and television host Jimmy Kimmel in Hollywood, California, June 6, 2024. Donald Trump on Thursday celebrated the suspension of Kimmel from the airwaves and said TV broadcasters should lose their licenses over negative coverage of his administration, adding fuel to a national debate over free speech. — AFP pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

Trump hails Jimmy Kimmel suspension, pushes to punish critical broadcasters

Prosecutors said French police on Thursday shot dead a man armed with a machete near a school in the south-eastern town of La Seyne-sur-Mer. — Pexels.com pic
World / 19 Sep 2025

French police shoot dead machete-wielding man after kids threatened near school